Microbial temperature sensitivity and biomass change explain soil carbon loss with warming

Microbial temperature sensitivity and biomass change explain soil carbon loss with warming

Microbial temperature sensitivity and biomass change explain soil carbon loss with warming, Published online: 17 September 2018; doi:10.1038/s41558-018-0259-x

Soil microbial activity is accelerated by warming and does not acclimate over periods of at least 50 years. Resulting soil carbon loss is nevertheless temporary because substrate depletion reduces microbial biomass and constrains the influence of microbes over the ecosystem.