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Review
. 2020 Jan;14(1):1-9.
doi: 10.1038/s41396-019-0510-0. Epub 2019 Sep 25.

Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change

Ashish A Malik  1 , Jennifer B H Martiny  2 , Eoin L Brodie  3   4 , Adam C Martiny  2   5 , Kathleen K Treseder  2 , Steven D Allison  2   5
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Defining trait-based microbial strategies with consequences for soil carbon cycling under climate change

Ashish A Malik et al. ISME J. 2020 Jan.
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The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Schematic showing cellular C flux that includes depolymerisation, substrate uptake, assimilation, dissimilation, biomass synthesis and non-growth production. Extracellular enzyme production represents investment in resource acquisition, stress protein production is linked to stress tolerance mechanisms, and biomass production reflects higher growth yield. Forked arrows signify metabolic points where hypothesised tradeoffs in traits might occur. The expected empirical relationships among the key traits are also shown
Fig. 2
Fig. 2
a Conceptual figure of microbial Y-A-S life history strategies. High yield (Y): maximises growth efficiency as a result of reduced investments in stress tolerance and resource acquisition; resource acquisition (A): preferential investment in cellular resource acquisition machinery; stress tolerance (S): preferential investment in stress tolerance mechanisms. b Hypothesised strategies favoured under particular treatment combinations. The microbial three-dimensional Y-A-S triangle is arrayed on the combinations
Fig. 3
Fig. 3
Summary of the proposed trait-based framework incorporating microbial life history strategies into the DEMENT model to predict community response and its ecosystem consequences under environmental change (adapted from Allison and Goulden [69])
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