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Carbon Use Efficiency and Its Temperature Sensitivity Covary in Soil Bacteria.
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- Shifts in Microbial Thermal Traits Mitigate Heat-Induced Carbon Losses in Soils.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Increased microbial carbon use efficiency upon abrupt permafrost thaw.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Dynamics of bacterial growth, and life-history tradeoffs, explain differences in soil carbon cycling due to land-use.ISME communications · 2025Article
- Growth rate as a link between microbial diversity and soil biogeochemistry.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Plant diversity drives positive microbial associations in the rhizosphere enhancing carbon use efficiency in agricultural soils.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Emerging multiscale insights on microbial carbon use efficiency in the land carbon cycle.Nature communications · 2024Review
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- Disproportionate Carbon Dioxide Efflux in Bacterial Metabolic Pathways for Different Organic Substrates Leads to Variable Contribution to Carbon-Use Efficiency.Environmental science & technology · 2024Article
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- Predictions of rhizosphere microbiome dynamics with a genome-informed and trait-based energy budget model.Nature microbiology · 2024Article
- Clearing the air: unraveling past and guiding future research in atmospheric chemosynthesis.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2023Review
- Whole-soil-profile warming does not change microbial carbon use efficiency in surface and deep soils.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- The selection of copiotrophs may complicate biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships in microbial dilution-to-extinction experiments.Environmental microbiome · 2023Article
- Latent functional diversity may accelerate microbial community responses to temperature fluctuations.eLife · 2022Article
- Latitudinal shifts of soil microbial biomass seasonality.PNAS nexus · 2022Article
- Optimal growth temperature of Arctic soil bacterial communities increases under experimental warming.Global change biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The strategy that microbial decomposers take with respect to using substrate for growth versus maintenance is one essential biological determinant of the propensity of carbon to remain in soil. To quantify the environmental sensitivity of this key physiological trade-off, we characterized the carbon use efficiency (CUE) of 23 soil bacterial isolates across seven phyla at three temperatures and with up to four substrates. Temperature altered CUE in both an isolate-specific manner and a substrate-specific manner. We searched for genes correlated with the temperature sensitivity of CUE on glucose and deemed those functional genes which were similarly correlated with CUE on other substrates to be validated as markers of CUE. Ultimately, we did not identify any such robust functional gene markers of CUE or its temperature sensitivity. However, we found a positive correlation between rRNA operon copy number and CUE, opposite what was expected. We also found that inefficient taxa increased their CUE with temperature, while those with high CUE showed a decrease in CUE with temperature. Together, our results indicate that CUE is a flexible parameter within bacterial taxa and that the temperature sensitivity of CUE is better explained by observed physiology than by genomic composition across diverse taxa. We conclude that the bacterial CUE response to temperature and substrate is more variable than previously thought.
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