Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

C-STABILITY an innovative modeling framework to leverage the continuous representation of organic matter

  • Julien Sainte-Marie,
  • Matthieu Barrandon,
  • Laurent Saint-André,
  • Eric Gelhaye,
  • Francis Martin,
  • Delphine Derrien

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21079-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Soil organic matter (SOM) is a huge sink of carbon, but the varied flux dynamics are challenging to predict. Here, the authors present a new model with the complexities of SOM cycling, including parameters for substrate accessibility, microbe diversity, and enzymatic substrate depolymerization.