Soil microbiomes exhibited a small, but highly consistent and phylogenetically conserved, response under the imposed extreme events, indicating resilience despite stress.
Heat treatment most strongly impacted soil microbiomes, enhancing dormancy and sporulation genes and decreasing metabolic versatility, crucial for ecosystem functioning.
The microbiome response to heat could be predicted by local climatic conditions and soil properties, revealing vulnerabilities in soils unaccustomed to extreme conditions.
Findings suggest that soil microbiomes from different climates share unified responses to extreme climatic events, necessitating local microbiome knowledge for accurate predictions.
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