ArticleNature communications2025
Patterns and drivers of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across soil depths in forest ecosystems.
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- Soil Microbial Diversity and Its Environmental Drivers in the Rhizosphere Profile ofMicroorganisms · 2026Article
- Responses of soil carbon storage to tending thinning and rapid prediction based on NIRS-BPNN in larch-birch natural secondary forests.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Coniferous-to-broadleaved forest conversion in subtropical coastal sandy lands enhances soil component respiration: coupled driving effects and mechanisms for improved carbon sequestration stability.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Multilayer soil moisture depletion intensifies drought impacts on global ecosystems.Nature geoscience · 2026Article
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Abstract
Subsoils below 30 cm store more than half of global soil carbon. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) serves as a key indicator of microbial control over soil carbon turnover, but the general patterns and drivers of microbial CUE across soil depths remain poorly understood. Here, we report a decreasing trend in microbial CUE with increasing soil depths through large-scale soil sampling across 60 sites spanning tropical to boreal forests. Using multiple analytical and statistical approaches complemented by experiments, we further identify depth-dependent drivers of microbial CUE. In the topsoil (0-10 cm), microbial CUE is primarily regulated by microbial diversity, whereas in deep subsoil (70-100 cm), it is predominantly driven by soil physicochemical protections. Our findings underscore the need to incorporate depth-specific microbial CUE drivers into carbon cycle models for more accurate predictions of whole-soil carbon storage and its feedback to climate change.
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