Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change

Ashish A. Malik; Jennifer B.H. Martiny; Eoin L. Brodie; Adam C. Martiny; Kathleen K. Treseder; Steven D. Allison

doi:10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0

Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change

Ashish A. Malik^* (Corresponding Author), Jennifer B.H. Martiny, Eoin L. Brodie, Adam C. Martiny, Kathleen K. Treseder, Steven D. Allison

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Aberdeen Centre For Environmental Sustainability

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Abstract

Microorganisms are critical in terrestrial carbon cycling because their growth, activity and interactions with the environment largely control the fate of recent plant carbon inputs as well as protected soil organic carbon [1, 2]. Soil carbon stocks reflect a balance between microbial decomposition of organic carbon and stabilisation of microbial assimilated carbon. The balance can shift under altered environmental conditions [3], and new research suggests that knowledge of microbial physiology may be critical for projecting changes in soil carbon and improving the prognosis of climate change feedbacks [4,5,6,7]. Still, predicting the ecosystem implications of microbial processes remains a challenge. Here we argue that this challenge can be met by identifying microbial life history strategies based on an organism’s phenotypic characteristics, or traits, and representing these strategies in ecosystem models.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-9
Number of pages	9
Journal	The ISME Journal
Volume	14
Early online date	25 Sept 2019
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0
Publication status	Published - Jan 2020

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We acknowledge funding from the US DOE Genomic Science Program, BER, Office of Science project DE-SC0016410. We thank Bin Wang for discussion and inputs on trait-based modelling.

Keywords

biogeochemistry
climate-change impacts
metabolism
microbial ecology
soil microbiology
PHYSIOLOGY
STRESS-RESPONSE
DECOMPOSITION
USE EFFICIENCY
CLASSIFICATION
COMMUNITIES
FEEDBACKS
TEMPERATURE
RELEVANCE
UNCERTAINTY

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