Patterns and drivers of soil microbial carbon use efficiency across soil depths in forest ecosystems

Abstract Subsoils below 30 cm store more than half of global soil carbon. Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) serves as a key indicator of microbial control over soil carbon turnover, but the general patterns and drivers of microbial CUE across soil depths remain poorly understood. Here, we report...

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Main Authors: Junmin Pei, Jinquan Li, Yiqi Luo, Matthias C. Rillig, Pete Smith, Wenjing Gao, Bo Li, Changming Fang, Ming Nie
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-60594-8
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