在全球土壤中,微生物碳使用效率和呼吸的生产率驱动的脱
Yongxing Cui1,2, Shushi Peng2, Manuel Delgado-Baquerizo3
1Institute of Biology, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 14195, Germany.
Science advances
|January 14, 2026
概括
土壤微生物 土壤微生物
科学领域:
- 土壤科学 土壤科学
- 微生物生态学 微生物生态学
- 生物地质化学生物地质化学
背景情况:
- 土壤微生物碳利用效率 (CUE) 对土壤碳储存至关重要,但其与呼吸的关系尚不清楚.
- 短期CUE估计可能不反映长期微生物适应或非线性动态.
- 了解微生物CUE对于预测土壤碳封存至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 研究土壤微生物碳利用效率 (CUE) 和不同生态系统的异构呼吸 (Rh) 之间的关系.
- 评估生态系统生产率如何影响微生物CUE-Rh关系.
- 探索微生物适应能力对土壤碳储存的影响.
主要方法:
- 采用基于立体几何的方法 (CUEST) 来估计微生物碳使用效率.
- 合成了1094个对联的CUEST和异构呼吸速率 (Rh) 的观测结果.
- 分析了自然生态系统的数据,考虑了生态系统的生产力.
主要成果:
- 在CUEST和Rh之间观察到非线性关系,由生态系统生产率调节.
- 在低生产率的生态系统中,随着Rh的增加,CUEST下降.
- 在高生产率生态系统中,随着Rh的增加,CUEST稳定在低水平 (0.27 ± 0.11),表明微生物生长与呼吸的脱.
结论:
- 微生物的适应性和静止学恒温形成了影响CUE的权衡.
- 由于稳定低CUE,生产生态系统存储额外的土壤碳的能力有限.
- 这些发现挑战了线性假设,并突出了土壤碳动态的复杂性.
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