ArticleNature communications2017
Microbial community-level regulation explains soil carbon responses to long-term litter manipulations.
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- Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
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- Current controversies on mechanisms controlling soil carbon storage: implications for interactions with practitioners and policy-makers. A review.Agronomy for sustainable development · 2023Review
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- Shifts in the Rhizosphere and Endosphere Colonizing Bacterial Communities Under Drought and Salinity Stress as Affected by a Biofertilizer Consortium.Microbial ecology · 2022Article
- Microbial biodiversity contributes to soil carbon release: a case study on fire disturbed boreal forests.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2022Article
- Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2022Review
- A Case Study Demonstrates That the Litter of the Rare SpeciesMicroorganisms · 2022Article
- Toxic effects of shale gas fracturing flowback fluid on microbial communities in polluted soil.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2021Article
- Improving a Biogeochemical Model to Simulate Microbial-Mediated Carbon Dynamics in Agricultural Ecosystems.Journal of advances in modeling earth systems · 2021Article
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Abstract
Climatic, atmospheric, and land-use changes all have the potential to alter soil microbial activity, mediated by changes in plant inputs. Many microbial models of soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition have been proposed recently to advance prediction of climate and carbon (C) feedbacks. Most of these models, however, exhibit unrealistic oscillatory behavior and SOC insensitivity to long-term changes in C inputs. Here we diagnose the source of these problems in four archetypal models and propose a density-dependent formulation of microbial turnover, motivated by community-level interactions, that limits population sizes and reduces oscillations. We compare model predictions to 24 long-term C-input field manipulations and identify key benchmarks. The proposed formulation reproduces soil C responses to long-term C-input changes and implies greater SOC storage associated with CO
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