Reply to: Beyond microbial carbon use efficiency

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Authors

• Feng Tao, Cornell University
• Johannes Lehmann, Cornell University
• Ying-Ping Wang, CSIRO Environment
• Lifen Jiang, Cornell University
• Bernhard Ahrens, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Kostiantyn Viatkin, Cornell University
• Stefano Manzoni, Stockholm University
• Benjamin Z. Houlton, Cornell University
• Yuanyuan Huang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Bruce A. Hungate, Northern Arizona University
• Serita D. Frey, University of New Hampshire, DurhamFollow
• Michael W. I. Schmidt, University of Zurich
• Markus Reichstein, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Nuno Carvalhais, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Philippe Ciais, Université Paris-Saclay
• Umakant Mishra, Sandia National Laboratories
• Gustaf Hugelius, Stockholm University
• Toby D. Hocking, Northern Arizona University
• Xingjie Lu, Sun Ya t-sen University
• Zheng Shi, University of Oklahoma
• Ronald Vargas, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Yusuf Yigini, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Christian Omuto, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Ashish A. Malik, University of Aberdeen
• Guillermo Peralta, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Rosa Cuevas-Corona, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Luciano E. Di Paolo, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Isabel Luotto, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Cuijuan Liao, Tsinghua University
• Yi-Shuang Liang, Tsinghua University
• Vinisa S. Saynes, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
• Xiaomeng Huang, Tsinghua University

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

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://dx.doi.org/10.31223/X5X38V

Document Type

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.

Comments

This manuscript is a non-peer reviewed preprint submitted to EarthArXiv. This is version 1 of this Preprint.