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- B44C-02: Testing the microbial carbon acquisition ecological strategy framework across biomes to support microbially explicit modeling (invited) (highlighted)
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Ember Morrissey, West Virginia University (First Author, Presenting Author)
Binu Tripathi, West Virginia University
Tanner Hoffman, West Virginia University
Jeth Walkup, West Virginia University
Rebecca Ozbolt, West Virginia University
Edward Brzostek, West Virginia University
Soil is a major carbon sink that can help remove excess carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and slow climate warming, microbes influence this process but they are not well understood. Soil carbon is a mixture of everything from simple sugars to complex plant litter and microbial debris. This research identifies which microorganisms consume key types of soil carbon thereby defining microbial functional groups to enhance our understanding of soil carbon processing. Describing the functional groups of microorganisms that break down and consume different constituents of soil carbon has great potential to improve soil carbon models that enable us to predict ecosystem functions and possibly manage ecosystems for nature based climate solutions.
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