ArticleNature communications2024
Universal microbial reworking of dissolved organic matter along environmental gradients.
Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.
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- Land-use intensification reshapes microbial phosphorus cycling, organic matter composition, and phosphorus fractions in Amazonian soils.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Dissolved organic matter specialization drives temporal dynamics of simplified bacterial communities in a microcosm experiment.ISME communications · 2026Article
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- Soil viral-host interactions regulate microplastic-dependent carbon storage.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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9 authors at 7 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
Soils are losing increasing amounts of carbon annually to freshwaters as dissolved organic matter (DOM), which, if degraded, can offset their carbon sink capacity. However, the processes underlying DOM degradation across environments are poorly understood. Here we show DOM changes similarly along soil-aquatic gradients irrespective of environmental differences. Using ultrahigh-resolution mass spectrometry, we track DOM along soil depths and hillslope positions in forest catchments and relate its composition to soil microbiomes and physico-chemical conditions. Along depths and hillslopes, we find carbohydrate-like and unsaturated hydrocarbon-like compounds increase in abundance-weighted mass, and the expression of genes essential for degrading plant-derived carbohydrates explains >50% of the variation in abundance of these compounds. These results suggest that microbes transform plant-derived compounds, leaving DOM to become increasingly dominated by the same (i.e., universal), difficult-to-degrade compounds as degradation proceeds. By synthesising data from the land-to-ocean continuum, we suggest these processes generalise across ecosystems and spatiotemporal scales. Such general degradation patterns can help predict DOM composition and reactivity along environmental gradients to inform management of soil-to-stream carbon losses.
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