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Tao F, Houlton BZ, Frey SD, Lehmann J, Manzoni S, Huang Y, Jiang L, Mishra U, Hungate BA, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Wang YP, Ahrens B, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Peralta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Di Paolo LE, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang YS, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y. Reply to: Model uncertainty obscures major driver of soil carbon. Nature 2024; 627:E4-E6. [PMID: 38448699 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-07000-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2023] [Accepted: 12/19/2023] [Indexed: 03/08/2024]
Affiliation(s)
- Feng Tao
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
- Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Center for Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Computational Biology & Biophysics, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, USA
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, DCEA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute for Environmental Genomics, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
- Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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Tao F, Huang Y, Hungate BA, Manzoni S, Frey SD, Schmidt MWI, Reichstein M, Carvalhais N, Ciais P, Jiang L, Lehmann J, Wang YP, Houlton BZ, Ahrens B, Mishra U, Hugelius G, Hocking TD, Lu X, Shi Z, Viatkin K, Vargas R, Yigini Y, Omuto C, Malik AA, Peralta G, Cuevas-Corona R, Di Paolo LE, Luotto I, Liao C, Liang YS, Saynes VS, Huang X, Luo Y. Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage. Nature 2023; 618:981-985. [PMID: 37225998 PMCID: PMC10307633 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06042-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 35.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/03/2023] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
Abstract
Soils store more carbon than other terrestrial ecosystems1,2. How soil organic carbon (SOC) forms and persists remains uncertain1,3, which makes it challenging to understand how it will respond to climatic change3,4. It has been suggested that soil microorganisms play an important role in SOC formation, preservation and loss5-7. Although microorganisms affect the accumulation and loss of soil organic matter through many pathways4,6,8-11, microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is an integrative metric that can capture the balance of these processes12,13. Although CUE has the potential to act as a predictor of variation in SOC storage, the role of CUE in SOC persistence remains unresolved7,14,15. Here we examine the relationship between CUE and the preservation of SOC, and interactions with climate, vegetation and edaphic properties, using a combination of global-scale datasets, a microbial-process explicit model, data assimilation, deep learning and meta-analysis. We find that CUE is at least four times as important as other evaluated factors, such as carbon input, decomposition or vertical transport, in determining SOC storage and its spatial variation across the globe. In addition, CUE shows a positive correlation with SOC content. Our findings point to microbial CUE as a major determinant of global SOC storage. Understanding the microbial processes underlying CUE and their environmental dependence may help the prediction of SOC feedback to a changing climate.
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Affiliation(s)
- Feng Tao
- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Center for Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA
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- Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
- Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, DCEA, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, FCT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
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- Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, LSCE/IPSL, CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Computational Biology and Biophysics, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA
- Joint BioEnergy Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, USA
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- Department of Physical Geography and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- School of Informatics, Computing and Cyber Systems, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA
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- School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China
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- Institute for Environmental Genomics and Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
- Soil and Crop Sciences Section, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- School of Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Earth System Science, Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Earth System Modelling, Institute for Global Change Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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