Dissolved organic matter molecular composition controls potential biodegradability
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Abstract
• Dissolved organic matter (DOM) from peat and forest soil showed high biodegradation. • Leonardite-derived DOM yielded very low microbial adaptability and degradability. • Aromatic, carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules were less degradable and longer-lived. • Carbohydrates and peptides sustained microbial biomass and regulated biodegradation. • DOM molecular composition-controlled biodegradation dynamics. Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is a heterogenous mixture of plant- and microbial-derived compounds at various stages of decomposition. However, there is a lack of detailed information about the biodegradability of DOM from different terrestrial sources that have varying molecular compositions. To circumvent this, incubation experiments were conducted for two months using DOM isolated from three different terrestrial sources: forest soil, peat and leonardite, all with distinct extents of diagenesis. The dissolved organic carbon (DOC), total dissolved nitrogen (TDN) contents, pH, and headspace CO 2 production were measured. DOM composition was monitored using solution-state 1 H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and ultraviolet–visible (UV–VIS) analyses. To further understand microbial responses, microbial biomass and community composition was analyzed with phospholipid fatty acid (PLFA). DOM isolated from forest soil and peat demonstrated high biodegradability and decreased DOC concentrations, higher CO 2 production rates and higher microbial biomass over the course of incubation. Forest soil-derived DOM composition had decreased aliphatic, and carbohydrate and peptide components in the early and late stages, respectively. Peat-derived DOM exhibited lower carbohydrate and peptide concentrations and higher carboxyl-rich alicyclic molecules (CRAM). In contrast, CRAM and aromatic enriched leonardite-derived DOM had low CO 2 production and microbial biomass, and no major changes in DOM chemical composition, suggesting limited biodegradability. Further, CO 2 production, microbial biomass, and DOM molecular weight and degradation indices were positively correlated with carbohydrates and peptides, and inversely related to CRAM and aromatic components. Overall, these results corroborated distinct biogeochemical dynamics with varied DOM molecular composition, and highlight that DOM enriched in bio-recalcitrant components limited microbial processing, and exhibited high geochemical stability.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.073 | 0.005 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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