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Abstract
In their commentary, Xiao et al. cautioned that the conclusions on the critical role of microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) in global soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in a paper by Tao et al. (2023) might be too simplistic. They claimed that Tao et al.’s study lacked mechanistic consideration of SOC formation and excluded important datasets. Xiao et al. brought up important points, which can be largely reconciled with our findings by understanding the differences in expressing processes in empirical studies and in models.
Department
Soil Biogeochemistry and Microbial Ecology
Publication Date
10-20-2023
Publisher
EarthArXiv
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Article
Recommended Citation
Tao, F., Lehmann, J., Wang, Y. P., Jiang, L., Ahrens, B., Viatkin, K., ... & Luo, Y. (2023). Reply to: Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency.
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