Global variation of soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in relation to growth temperature and substrate supply

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; p. 5621
• Main Authors: Qiao, Yang, Wang, Jing, Liang, Guopeng, Du, Zhenggang, Zhou, Jian, Zhu, Chen, Huang, Kun, Zhou, Xuhui, Luo, Yiqi, Yan, Liming, Xia, Jianyang
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 04.04.2019; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 704/158/2445; 704/158/855; Biological Phenomena - genetics; Biomass; Carbon; Carbon - metabolism; Carbon Cycle - physiology; Ecosystem; Environmental factors; Global Warming; Humanities and Social Sciences; Markov chains; Microbiota - genetics; Monte Carlo Method; multidisciplinary; Multiple regression analysis; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soil - chemistry; Soil Microbiology; Soil temperature; Soils; Spatial distribution; Temperature; Temperature effects

Soil microbial carbon-use efficiency (CUE), which is defined as the ratio of growth over C uptake, is commonly assumed as a constant or estimated by a temperature-dependent function in current microbial-explicit soil carbon (C) models. The temperature-dependent function (i.e., CUE  =  CUE 0  +  m  ×...