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Lack of Correlation between Turnover of Low-Molecular-Weight Dissolved Organic Carbon and Differences in Microbial Community Composition or Growth across a Soil pH Gradient

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Summary, in English

We studied how soil pH (pHs 4 to 8) influenced the mineralization of low-molecular-weight (LMW)-dissolved organic carbon (DOC) compounds, and how this compared with differences in microbial community structure. The mineralization of LMW-DOC compounds was not systematically connected to differences in soil pH, consistent with soil respiration. In contrast, the microbial community compositions differed dramatically. This suggests that microbial community composition data will be of limited use in improving the predictive power of soil C models.

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

2791-2795

Publication/Series

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volume

77

Issue

8

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Topic

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

Project

  • Carbon drivers and microbial agents of soil respiration
  • Microbial carbon-use efficiency

Research group

  • Microbial Ecology

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0099-2240