Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization
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Abstract
Soils represent the largest carbon reservoir within terrestrial ecosystems. The mechanisms controlling the amount of carbon stored and its feedback to the climate system, however, remain poorly resolved. Global carbon models assume that carbon cycling in upland soils is entirely driven by aerobic respiration; the impact of anaerobic microsites prevalent even within well-drained soils is missed within this conception. Here, we show that anaerobic microsites are important regulators of soil carbon persistence, shifting microbial metabolism to less efficient anaerobic respiration, and selectively protecting otherwise bioavailable, reduced organic compounds such as lipids and waxes from decomposition. Further, shifting from anaerobic to aerobic conditions leads to a 10-fold increase in volume-specific mineralization rate, illustrating the sensitivity of anaerobically protected carbon to disturbance. The vulnerability of anaerobically protected carbon to future climate or land use change thus constitutes a yet unrecognized soil carbon-climate feedback that should be incorporated into terrestrial ecosystem models.
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The record
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Topic
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Field
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences
- Canadian institutions
- —
- Funders
- Pacific Northwest National LaboratoryNational Research Council CanadaWestern Economic Diversification CanadaBiological and Environmental ResearchNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of CanadaCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchOffice of ScienceUniversity of SaskatchewanCanadian Light SourceU.S. Department of Energy
- Keywords
- Environmental scienceCarbon cycleSoil carbonEcosystemAnaerobic exerciseMineralization (soil science)Soil respirationAnaerobic respirationSoil waterEcologyCarbon fibersEnvironmental chemistryChemistrySoil scienceBiology
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