ArticleSoil biology & biochemistry2019
Growth explains microbial carbon use efficiency across soils differing in land use and geology.
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- Increased microbial carbon use efficiency upon abrupt permafrost thaw.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
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- Asymmetric winter warming reduces microbial carbon use efficiency and growth more than symmetric year-round warming in alpine soils.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle.Nature communications · 2024Review
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Abstract
The ratio of carbon (C) that is invested into microbial growth to organic C taken up is known as microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE), which is influenced by environmental factors such as soil temperature and soil moisture. How microbes will physiologically react to short-term environmental changes is not well understood, primarily due to methodological restrictions. Here we report on two independent laboratory experiments to explore short-term temperature and soil moisture effects on soil microbial physiology (i.e. respiration, growth, CUE, and microbial biomass turnover): (i) a temperature experiment with 1-day pre-incubation at 5, 15 and 25 °C at 60% water holding capacity (WHC), and (ii) a soil moisture/oxygen (O
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