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NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2016896118
关键词
organic matter; microbial ecology; carbon cycling
资金
- Simons Foundation: The Simons Collaboration on Principles of Microbial Ecology Grant [542389]
- Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship in Marine Microbial Ecology
- National Environmental Research Council [NE-R015953-1]
- European Union [820989]
- NERC [noc010009] Funding Source: UKRI
Organic matter plays a crucial role in global elemental cycles, with various hypotheses proposed to explain its accumulation. However, our understanding of the dynamics and accumulation of organic matter remains incomplete. A new theoretical framework has been developed to explain the predictable accumulation of organic matter in natural environments through biochemical, ecological, and environmental factors.
Organic matter constitutes a key reservoir in global elemental cycles. However, our understanding of the dynamics of organic matter and its accumulation remains incomplete. Seemingly disparate hypotheses have been proposed to explain organic matter accumulation: the slow degradation of intrinsically recalcitrant substrates, the depletion to concentrations that inhibit microbial consumption, and a dependency on the consumption capabilities of nearby microbial populations. Here, using a mechanistic model, we develop a theoretical framework that explains how organic matter predictably accumulates in natural environments due to biochemical, ecological, and environmental factors. Our framework subsumes the previous hypotheses. Changes in the microbial community or the environment can move a class of organic matter from a state of functional recalcitrance to a state of depletion by microbial consumers. The model explains the vertical profile of dissolved organic carbon in the ocean and connects microbial activity at subannual timescales to organic matter turnover at millennial timescales. The threshold behavior of the model implies that organic matter accumulation may respond nonlinearly to changes in temperature and other factors, providing hypotheses for the observed correlations between organic carbon reservoirs and temperature in past earth climates.
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