More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input
Abstract
Increases in carbon (C) inputs to soil can replenish soil organic C (SOC) through various mechanisms. However, recent studies have suggested that the increased C input can also stimulate the decomposition of old SOC via priming. Whether the loss of old SOC by priming can override C replenishment has not been rigorously examined. Here we show, through data–model synthesis, that the magnitude of replenishment is greater than that of priming, resulting in a net increase in SOC by a mean of 32% of the added new C. The magnitude of the net increase in SOC is positively correlated with the nitrogen-to-C ratio of the added substrates. Additionally, model evaluation indicates that a two-pool interactive model is a parsimonious model to represent the SOC decomposition with priming and replenishment. Our findings suggest that increasing C input to soils likely promote SOC accumulation despite the enhanced decomposition of old C via priming.
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- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER); National Science Foundation (NSF)
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- 1462768
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- OSTI ID: 1468030; OSTI ID: 1477417
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- SC00114085; SC0004601; SC0010715; AC05-00OR22725; EF 1137293; OIA-1301789; AC02-05CH11231
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- Nature Communications
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- Journal Name: Nature Communications Journal Volume: 9 Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- United Kingdom
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- English
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- 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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Liang, Junyi, Zhou, Zhenghu, Huo, Changfu, Shi, Zheng, Cole, James R., Huang, Lei, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T., Li, Xiaoming, Liu, Bo, Luo, Zhongkui, Penton, C. Ryan, Schuur, Edward A. G., Tiedje, James M., Wang, Ying-Ping, Wu, Liyou, Xia, Jianyang, Zhou, Jizhong, and Luo, Yiqi. More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input. United Kingdom: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05667-7.
Liang, Junyi, Zhou, Zhenghu, Huo, Changfu, Shi, Zheng, Cole, James R., Huang, Lei, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T., Li, Xiaoming, Liu, Bo, Luo, Zhongkui, Penton, C. Ryan, Schuur, Edward A. G., Tiedje, James M., Wang, Ying-Ping, Wu, Liyou, Xia, Jianyang, Zhou, Jizhong, & Luo, Yiqi. More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05667-7
Liang, Junyi, Zhou, Zhenghu, Huo, Changfu, Shi, Zheng, Cole, James R., Huang, Lei, Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T., Li, Xiaoming, Liu, Bo, Luo, Zhongkui, Penton, C. Ryan, Schuur, Edward A. G., Tiedje, James M., Wang, Ying-Ping, Wu, Liyou, Xia, Jianyang, Zhou, Jizhong, and Luo, Yiqi. Thu .
"More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05667-7.
@article{osti_1462768,
title = {More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input},
author = {Liang, Junyi and Zhou, Zhenghu and Huo, Changfu and Shi, Zheng and Cole, James R. and Huang, Lei and Konstantinidis, Konstantinos T. and Li, Xiaoming and Liu, Bo and Luo, Zhongkui and Penton, C. Ryan and Schuur, Edward A. G. and Tiedje, James M. and Wang, Ying-Ping and Wu, Liyou and Xia, Jianyang and Zhou, Jizhong and Luo, Yiqi},
abstractNote = {Increases in carbon (C) inputs to soil can replenish soil organic C (SOC) through various mechanisms. However, recent studies have suggested that the increased C input can also stimulate the decomposition of old SOC via priming. Whether the loss of old SOC by priming can override C replenishment has not been rigorously examined. Here we show, through data–model synthesis, that the magnitude of replenishment is greater than that of priming, resulting in a net increase in SOC by a mean of 32% of the added new C. The magnitude of the net increase in SOC is positively correlated with the nitrogen-to-C ratio of the added substrates. Additionally, model evaluation indicates that a two-pool interactive model is a parsimonious model to represent the SOC decomposition with priming and replenishment. Our findings suggest that increasing C input to soils likely promote SOC accumulation despite the enhanced decomposition of old C via priming.},
doi = {10.1038/s41467-018-05667-7},
journal = {Nature Communications},
number = 1,
volume = 9,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Aug 09 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Fig. 1: Schemes of four soil C dynamic models. a Conventional model; b Interactive model; c Michaelis–Menten model; d Reverse Michaelis–Menten model
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