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Microbially driven organic carbon cycling at the land-sea interface: Advances and an integrated study framework.

Quanrui Chen, Kai Tang, Zhili He, Meng Li, Jun Yang, Weidong Zhai, Qiang Zheng, Nianzhi Jiao

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Review in mLife, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Quanrui ChenInnovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University Xiamen China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6728-4472
Kai TangInnovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University Xiamen China.
Zhili HeFrontier Research Center, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) Zhuhai China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8225-7333
Meng LiArchaeal Biology Center, Synthetic Biology Research Center, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering, Key Laboratory of Marine Microbiome Engineering of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes, Institute for Advanced Study Shenzhen University Shenzhen China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8675-0758
Jun YangAquatic EcoHealth Group, Fujian Key Laboratory of Watershed Ecology, State Key Laboratory of Regional and Urban Ecology, Institute of Urban Environment Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiamen China.
Weidong ZhaiFrontier Research Center, Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai) Zhuhai China.
Qiang ZhengInnovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University Xiamen China.
Nianzhi JiaoInnovation Research Center for Carbon Neutralization, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Fujian Key Laboratory of Marine Carbon Sequestration, College of Ocean and Earth Sciences Xiamen University Xiamen China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The land-sea interface is a vital component of global biogeochemical cycles, where microorganisms drive the cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur. This review synthesizes the research progress from representative land-sea interfaces to elucidate how the microbial community structure and metabolic function influence the mobilization, transformation, and retention of organic carbon. Here, we also review the mechanisms underlying carbon cycle dynamics and emphasize the role of coupled biogeochemical cycles and climate change. A key focus is the synergistic interaction among the marine microbial carbon pump (MCP), the soil MCP, and the mineral-associated carbon pump, hereafter referred to as the land-sea MCP framework. We further propose an integrated study framework, based on measurable parameters such as carbon use efficiency and bacterial growth efficiency, to link microbial processes to long-term carbon sequestration at the land-sea interface.

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carbon cycledissolved organic carbonland−sea interfacemicrobial carbon pumpmicrobial processes

Identifiers

PMID42394851
PMCPMC13327626

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