Dynamics of soil microbial biomass during early fine roots decomposition of three species in alpine region

Zhichao, 武志超 Wu; Fuzhong, 吴福忠 Wu; Wanqin, 杨万勤 Yang; Yuanyun, 魏圆云 Wei; Ao, 王奥 Wang; Jinling, 刘金玲 Liu

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“…The uninformative prior distribution was used for all five parameters, with the ranges of V max, L , K M , L , CUE L , k B , L , k l being 1–100 days −1 , 10–4,000 g C m −2 (Georgiou et al., 2017; Li et al., 2014), 0–0.30 (Soares & Rousk, 2019), 0‐0.010 days −1 (Cheng, 2009; Wu & Xiao, 2004), and 0‐0.010 days −1 (Fan et al., 2021), respectively. The initial value of the litter pool size was the value on day 0 in the LIDET data set, and the initial value of MBC was estimated based on the ratio between MBC and litter pool size (0.0023, (Zhou et al., 2011)). After 10,000 trial runs and a burn‐in period, the proposed density was constructed, and the final distribution patterns of the parameters were obtained from 12,000 times of formal operations using the prior distribution.…”

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The Carbon Transfer From Plant to Soil Is More Efficient in Less Productive Ecosystems

Fan

Bai

Zhang

et al. 2023

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

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The organic carbon (C) in soil is mainly from plants via litter decomposition. Here, we developed a new litter decomposition submodel incorporating the microbial biomass effect on the decomposition rate based on the Michaelis‐Menten kinetics. This new submodel was coupled with the existing plant and soil submodels to simulate C cycling in natural ecosystems in the continental United States. The C transfer efficiency (EFF), defined as the percentage of C transferred to the next layer in the plant‐litter‐soil continuum, was quantified in different types of natural ecosystems. We estimated that on average 48.1% of gross primary productivity (GPP) was transferred from plant to litter and 15.1% of litterfall was transferred from litter to soil, meaning that the C that finally enters soil was on average approximately 7.3% of GPP. Ecosystems with a drier climate and lower GPP had higher EFF from plant to soil. The EFF concept we proposed provides an empirical proxy for diagnosing ecosystem C cycling and a framework for projecting the change of C fluxes and C pool sizes in response to climate change. If C transfer can represent energy transfer analogous to Lindeman Efficiency, our results suggest a pattern of resource and energy transfer in nature: higher resource or energy availability usually means lower resource or energy transfer efficiency.

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