Microbial community regulation of extracellular enzyme production can mediate patterns of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter accumulation in undersaturated soils
Paige M. Hansen, Yao Zhang, Ksenia Guseva, Christina Kaiser, M. Francesca Cotrufo
Topics & Concepts
Microbial population biologyOrganic matterSoil waterChemistryEnvironmental chemistryMicroscale chemistryEcosystemMicrobial ecologyDecompositionSoil organic matterExtracellular polymeric substanceMineralization (soil science)EcologyMicrobial metabolismMicroorganismExtracellularSaturation (graph theory)ParticulatesDissolved organic carbonMicrobial loopBiogeochemical cycleMicrobial Community Ecology and PhysiologySoil Carbon and Nitrogen DynamicsBiocrusts and Microbial Ecology