The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

Serita D. Frey (), Juhwan Lee, Jerry M. Melillo and Johan Six ()
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Serita D. Frey: University of New Hampshire, Durham
Juhwan Lee: One Shields Avenue
Jerry M. Melillo: The Ecosystem Center, Marine Biological Laboratory
Johan Six: One Shields Avenue

Nature Climate Change, 2013, vol. 3, issue 4, 395-398

Abstract: Soils are the largest repository of organic carbon in the terrestrial biosphere. Nevertheless, relatively little is known about the factors controlling the efficiency with which microbial communities utilize carbon, and its effect on soil–atmosphere CO2 exchange. Now research using long-term experimental plots suggests that climate warming could alter the decay dynamics of more stable organic-matter compounds with implications for carbon storage in soils and ultimately climate warming.

Date: 2013
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