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Title: Mineral properties, microbes, transport, and plant-input profiles control vertical distribution and age of soil carbon stocks

Abstract

The role of organo-mineral interactions, microbial dynamics, and vertical plant input profiles are hypothesized to be important in controlling soil organic matter (SOM) stocks and dynamics. In this paper, to test this hypothesis, we enhanced and applied a model (Biotic and Abiotic Model of SOM – BAMS1) that represents microbial dynamics and organo-mineral interactions integrated with a multiphase reactive transport solver for variably saturated porous media. The model represents aqueous chemistry, aqueous advection and diffusion, gaseous diffusion, sorption processes, bacterial and fungal activity, and archetypal monomer- and polymer-carbon substrate groups, including dead cell wall material. This model structure is fundamentally different, and produces different SOM dynamics, than the pseudo-first order relationships that are used in most site- and global-scale terrestrial SOM models. We simulated two grasslands, a seven-site chronosequence (~3.9–240 Ky) in Northern California, and a Russian Chernozem site where soils were sampled 100 years apart. We calibrated the model's vertically-resolved soil bulk specific surface area (SBSSA) using observed bulk SOM content, and then tested the model against observed Δ14C profiles. The modeled microbial processes, organo-mineral interactions, and vertical aqueous transport produced realistic vertically-resolved predictions of bulk SOM content, Δ14C values of SOM, lignin content, and fungi-to-aerobic bacteria biomass ratios.more » Using sensitivity analyses, we found that vertical carbon input profiles were important controls over the Δ14C depth distribution. Shallower carbon input profiles lead to older carbon at depth. In addition, the SBSSA was the dominant control over the magnitude and vertical distribution of SOM stocks. Finally, the findings of this study demonstrate the value of explicitly incorporating microbial activity, sorption, and vertical transport into land models to predict SOM dynamics.« less

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ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [1];  [1];  [2];  [1]
  1. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). Earth and Environmental Sciences Area
  2. Univ. of Sydney, NSW (Australia). School of Civil Engineering
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Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
OSTI Identifier:
1471030
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1419401
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 107; Journal ID: ISSN 0038-0717
Publisher:
Elsevier
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES; BAMS1; SOM dynamics; organo-mineral interactions

Citation Formats

Dwivedi, D., Riley, W. J., Torn, M. S., Spycher, N., Maggi, F., and Tang, J. Y. Mineral properties, microbes, transport, and plant-input profiles control vertical distribution and age of soil carbon stocks. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.12.019.
Dwivedi, D., Riley, W. J., Torn, M. S., Spycher, N., Maggi, F., & Tang, J. Y. Mineral properties, microbes, transport, and plant-input profiles control vertical distribution and age of soil carbon stocks. United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.12.019
Dwivedi, D., Riley, W. J., Torn, M. S., Spycher, N., Maggi, F., and Tang, J. Y. Wed . "Mineral properties, microbes, transport, and plant-input profiles control vertical distribution and age of soil carbon stocks". United States. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.12.019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1471030.
@article{osti_1471030,
title = {Mineral properties, microbes, transport, and plant-input profiles control vertical distribution and age of soil carbon stocks},
author = {Dwivedi, D. and Riley, W. J. and Torn, M. S. and Spycher, N. and Maggi, F. and Tang, J. Y.},
abstractNote = {The role of organo-mineral interactions, microbial dynamics, and vertical plant input profiles are hypothesized to be important in controlling soil organic matter (SOM) stocks and dynamics. In this paper, to test this hypothesis, we enhanced and applied a model (Biotic and Abiotic Model of SOM – BAMS1) that represents microbial dynamics and organo-mineral interactions integrated with a multiphase reactive transport solver for variably saturated porous media. The model represents aqueous chemistry, aqueous advection and diffusion, gaseous diffusion, sorption processes, bacterial and fungal activity, and archetypal monomer- and polymer-carbon substrate groups, including dead cell wall material. This model structure is fundamentally different, and produces different SOM dynamics, than the pseudo-first order relationships that are used in most site- and global-scale terrestrial SOM models. We simulated two grasslands, a seven-site chronosequence (~3.9–240 Ky) in Northern California, and a Russian Chernozem site where soils were sampled 100 years apart. We calibrated the model's vertically-resolved soil bulk specific surface area (SBSSA) using observed bulk SOM content, and then tested the model against observed Δ14C profiles. The modeled microbial processes, organo-mineral interactions, and vertical aqueous transport produced realistic vertically-resolved predictions of bulk SOM content, Δ14C values of SOM, lignin content, and fungi-to-aerobic bacteria biomass ratios. Using sensitivity analyses, we found that vertical carbon input profiles were important controls over the Δ14C depth distribution. Shallower carbon input profiles lead to older carbon at depth. In addition, the SBSSA was the dominant control over the magnitude and vertical distribution of SOM stocks. Finally, the findings of this study demonstrate the value of explicitly incorporating microbial activity, sorption, and vertical transport into land models to predict SOM dynamics.},
doi = {10.1016/j.soilbio.2016.12.019},
journal = {Soil Biology and Biochemistry},
number = ,
volume = 107,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2017},
month = {Wed Feb 08 00:00:00 EST 2017}
}

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