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ArticleScience advances2026

Productivity-driven decoupling of microbial carbon use efficiency and respiration across global soils.

Yongxing Cui, Shushi Peng, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo, Daryl L Moorhead, Robert L Sinsabaugh, César Terrer, Thomas P Smith, Yakov Kuzyakov, Josep Peñuelas, Biao Zhu and 4 more

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14 authors.

Yongxing CuiInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8624-2785
Shushi PengSino-French Institute for Earth System Science, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5098-726X
Manuel Delgado-BaquerizoLaboratorio de Biodiversidad y Funcionamiento Ecosistémico, Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Sevilla (IRNAS), CSIC, Av. Reina Mercedes 10, E-41012 Sevilla, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-6499-576X
Daryl L MoorheadDepartment of Environmental Sciences, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH 43606, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3460-5302
Robert L SinsabaughDepartment of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA.
César TerrerDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, MA 02139, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5479-3486
Thomas P SmithDepartment of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-4038-9722
Yakov KuzyakovDepartment of Agricultural Soil Science, Department of Soil Science of Temperate Ecosystems, University of Goettingen, Goettingen 37077, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9863-8461
Josep PeñuelasGlobal Ecology Unit CREAF-CSIC-UAB, CSIC, Bellaterra, Catalonia 08913, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7215-0150
Biao ZhuState Key Laboratory for Vegetation Structure, Function and Construction (VegLab), Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth Surface Processes, and College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9858-7943
Feng TaoDepartment of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6105-860X
Songbai HongSchool of Urban Planning and Design, Shenzhen Graduate School, Peking University, Shenzhen 518055, China.ORCID 0000-0002-0450-0817
Ji ChenState Key Laboratory of Loess Science, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710061, China.ORCID 0000-0001-7026-6312
Matthias C RilligInstitute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3541-7853

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite extensive research on soil microbial carbon (C) use efficiency (CUE), its linkage to actual soil C storage remains ambiguous. A key uncertainty is that CUE estimates from short-term labeling incubations assume a linear negative relationship with respiration rates, overlooking nonlinear interactions and long-term microbial acclimation. Here, we use a stoichiometry-based approach to estimate CUE (CUE

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