Wei-Guo Fan, Mingzhong Zhou, Wei Song, Xue-Yan Liu
{"title":"Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes of Shale Nitrate Recorded Soil Nitrate Biogeochemistry Under Arid Paleoclimates","authors":"Wei-Guo Fan, Mingzhong Zhou, Wei Song, Xue-Yan Liu","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008419","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Arid climates severely influence the biota. Nitrogen (N) cycling is crucial information for understanding responses of biota to arid climates. However, it remains unclear whether and how key N-cycling processes respond to aridity under arid paleoclimates. By investigating the contents and N and oxygen (O) isotopes of trace nitrate (NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup>) remaining in black shale under arid paleoclimates, here we established a steady-state model combining dual N and O isotopes to quantify fluxes of microbial NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> production (nitrification) and consumption (denitrification, assimilation) under low- and high-aridity climates, respectively. We found that nitrification was 11 times higher than atmospheric inputs (0.29 kg N ha<sup>−1</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>) under low aridity but declined 16-fold under high aridity. Similarly, denitrification was six times higher than microbial assimilation (0.39 kg N ha<sup>−1</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>) under low aridity but decreased 37-fold, becoming comparable to assimilation (0.33 kg N ha<sup>−1</sup> yr<sup>−1</sup>) under high aridity. Correlation analyses confirmed that nitrification (slope = 0.692, <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.928) and denitrification (slope = 0.706, <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.645) were sensitive to the aridity but microbial NO<sub>3</sub><sup>−</sup> assimilation (slope = 0.101, <i>R</i><sup>2</sup> = 0.037) was not sensitive to arid climates. This study provides new isotopic records and geochemical methods for quantifying N-cycle fluxes of dryland paleoecosystems, which are useful for understanding the mechanisms of biological responses to historical arid events and modeling N cycles in modern dryland ecosystems.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144289219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Ferraro, B. Risebrobakken, I. Polovodova Asteman, E. Darelius, A. Tisserand, N. D. Gallo, A. G. V. Salvanes
{"title":"The Present-Day Relation Between Observed Bottom Water Oxygenation and Marine Oxygen Proxies","authors":"M. Ferraro, B. Risebrobakken, I. Polovodova Asteman, E. Darelius, A. Tisserand, N. D. Gallo, A. G. V. Salvanes","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008334","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008334","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study investigates how marine sediment proxies reflect dissolved oxygen levels in fjord basin water to improve our understanding of coastal marine deoxygenation that has been associated with ongoing climate change. We use western Norwegian fjords to test how marine sediment proxies for dissolved oxygen perform. Such knowledge is needed to evaluate if the recent reduced renewal of fjord basin waters is driven by anthropogenic impact or is within the range of natural variability. We have explored the potential and limitations of Mn/Ca, <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C, benthic foraminiferal diversity, the calcareous and agglutinated foraminifera ratio, and the benthic foraminifera indicator species <i>Stainforthia fusiformis</i> as potential proxies for bottom water oxygen concentrations. Within the fjords investigated in western Norway, seven stations are well-oxygenated, one is close to hypoxic oxygen levels, and one shows nearly anoxic conditions. The relative abundance of <i>S. fusiformis</i> shows the strongest potential as a tool for reconstructing past oxygen concentrations. The Mn/Ca and <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C measured in the seawater also strongly correlate with dissolved oxygen. The foraminiferal diversity indices follow the oxygenation gradient in the fjords. The calcareous/agglutinated species ratio has limitations under anoxic conditions, where an almost monospecific assemblage dominated by calcareous <i>S. fusiformis</i> was found. The signal of Mn/Ca and <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C measured in shells of species <i>Hyalinea balthica</i> was difficult to assess due to low species abundance at some fjord sites. Hence, further analyses are necessary to employ the Mn/Ca and <i>δ</i><sup>13</sup>C in foraminiferal shells as proxies for reconstructing past oxygen concentrations in fjords.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008334","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. W. Jacobel, C. T. Pallone, K. M. Costa, R. F. Anderson, J. F. McManus
{"title":"Orbital Influences on Deep Ocean Oxygen Concentrations and Respired Carbon Storage","authors":"A. W. Jacobel, C. T. Pallone, K. M. Costa, R. F. Anderson, J. F. McManus","doi":"10.1029/2025GB008503","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008503","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Quantitative records of bottom water oxygen (BWO) are critical for understanding deep ocean change through time. Because of the stoichiometric relationship between oxygen and carbon, BWO records provide insight into the physical and biogeochemical processes that control the air-sea partitioning of both gases with important implications for climate over Quaternary glacial-interglacial cycles. Here, we present new geochemical data sets from Ocean Discovery Program Site 1240 in the eastern equatorial Pacific to constrain paleoproductivity (Ba<sub>xs</sub> flux) and BWO using a multiproxy approach (aU, Mn/Al, Δδ<sup>13</sup>C, and U/Ba). This combination of approaches allows us to quantitatively identify changes in BWO and to parse local and basin-wide contributions to the signal. We find that upwelling, not dust input, is responsible for driving productivity changes at the site. Changes in local carbon export are not the primary driver of changes in BWO, which instead reflect basin-wide changes driven by processes in the Southern Ocean. Our BWO results provide direct evidence for the role of orbital precession and obliquity in driving deep sea respired carbon and oxygen concentrations. We find variations in BWO on the order of ∼50 μmol/kg that occur with ∼23 kyr periodicity during the substages of Marine Isotope Stage 5, and variations of ∼100 μmol/kg on glacial-interglacial timescales. These findings have important implications for the role of insolation in driving deep ocean respired oxygen and carbon concentrations, and point to physical and biogeochemical changes in the Southern Ocean as key drivers of planetary-scale carbon change.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144264422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Noah Gluschankoff, Hannah J. McGoran, Karen L. Casciotti
{"title":"The Effects of Biogeochemistry and Water Mass Mixing on the Distribution of Nitrous Oxide in the Tropical South Pacific","authors":"Noah Gluschankoff, Hannah J. McGoran, Karen L. Casciotti","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008267","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008267","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the oceanic cycling and transport of the climatically relevant greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N<sub>2</sub>O), is imperative for interpreting how it could change with environmental conditions. We studied the distributions of N<sub>2</sub>O concentration and stable isotopes under biogeochemically and physically diverse environments along the GEOTRACES GP16 section—from the South Pacific oxygen deficient zone (ODZ) into the oligotrophic South Pacific Gyre—in concert with isotopic measurements of nitrate and nitrite, to investigate the interplay of N<sub>2</sub>O production, consumption, and water mass mixing. We developed an isotope mixing model to determine the relative contributions of four N<sub>2</sub>O endmembers along the section. The model showed that N<sub>2</sub>O derived from the ODZ was rapidly diluted outside the ODZ, but was still detected at 152°W, the westernmost extent of the section. Keeling model results similarly confirmed that N<sub>2</sub>O can be traced in the thermocline from the ODZ into the Gyre. Outside the ODZ thermocline, water mass mixing (background N<sub>2</sub>O) and N<sub>2</sub>O produced by ammonia-oxidizing archaea were largely responsible for its distribution. In this study, a moderate SP (22‰) for N<sub>2</sub>O production from incomplete denitrification was needed to produce realistic endmember distributions, contrasting the 0‰ value often applied. Further, our newly developed tracer, Δ(SP, 18), which accounts for the isotopic impacts of N<sub>2</sub>O consumption, was used to study the pathways of N<sub>2</sub>O production within ODZ waters. This approach illustrated distinct patterns of δ<sup>15</sup>N<sup>β</sup> observations within ODZ waters, highlighting the potential for nitrate and nitrite to contribute differentially to N<sub>2</sub>O production in ODZ waters.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Weiqiang Zhao, Hongyan Bao, Lejin Peng, Moge Du, Keyuan Li, Xiaoqian Zhan, Shuwen Li, Li Tian, Dekun Huang, Wenbin Zou, Jin-Yu Terence Yang, Shuh-Ji Kao
{"title":"Transport of Dissolved Black Carbon in Three Estuaries in China: Roles of Flood-Ebb Tides and Submarine Groundwater Discharge","authors":"Weiqiang Zhao, Hongyan Bao, Lejin Peng, Moge Du, Keyuan Li, Xiaoqian Zhan, Shuwen Li, Li Tian, Dekun Huang, Wenbin Zou, Jin-Yu Terence Yang, Shuh-Ji Kao","doi":"10.1029/2025GB008532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008532","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Estuaries are essential for the ocean's mass balance of terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM). Dissolved black carbon (DBC) constitutes the largest known persistent fraction of DOM in marine environments. However, the alterations of DBC during its transport through estuaries remain largely unknown. In this study, we conducted six sampling cruises across three estuaries in China, which varied in size, tidal patterns, and hydrological conditions. We measured DBC concentrations in both the overlying water and sediment porewater. Our results indicated that DBC input occurred during flood tides, whereas DBC removal was observed during ebb tides. Modeling results and laboratory experiments suggest that photodegradation and photo-dissolution were not the primary mechanisms influencing these patterns; instead, variations in submarine groundwater discharge (SGD) of DBC may account for the observed flood-ebb-related fluctuations. Additionally, we found a higher internal accumulation of DBC during the lower runoff period in the three estuaries, which could be related to the longer flushing time. We estimated that SGD-derived DBC flux accounted for ∼12% of DBC discharged from the Jiulong River to the estuary, and represented ∼16–23% of riverine DBC discharge on a global scale. Our study provides new insights into the flood-ebb-tides-related DBC transport in estuaries, which should be considered in future studies of other DOM components in the estuarine region. Furthermore, our study underscores the significance of SGD flux in the transport of terrestrial DOM to the ocean, highlighting the need for its incorporation into the global budget of terrestrial organic matter.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelsey T. Foster, Wu Sun, Julian Merder, Oleksandra Hararuk, Werner A. Kurz, Avni Malhotra, Juha Metsaranta, Andrea Nesdoly, Eva Sinha, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Deborah Huntzinger, Susan M. Natali, Christopher Schwalm, Anna M. Michalak
{"title":"Permafrost, Peatland, and Cropland Regions Are Key to Reconciling North American Carbon Sink Estimates","authors":"Kelsey T. Foster, Wu Sun, Julian Merder, Oleksandra Hararuk, Werner A. Kurz, Avni Malhotra, Juha Metsaranta, Andrea Nesdoly, Eva Sinha, Ben Bond-Lamberty, Deborah Huntzinger, Susan M. Natali, Christopher Schwalm, Anna M. Michalak","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008460","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008460","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Persistent discrepancies between bottom-up, terrestrial biosphere models (TBMs), and top-down, atmospheric inversions, have made it difficult to quantify the magnitude of the North American terrestrial carbon sink. Previous studies have compared aggregated continent-scale estimates of carbon fluxes from TBMs and inversions for all of North America, but this provides limited insights into finer-scale mismatches that contribute to the overall discrepancies. Here we evaluate agreement between TBM and inversion carbon flux estimates at 1° × 1° resolution to provide more direct insights into where models disagree and what underlying factors drive discrepancies. We find that the additional carbon uptake estimated by inversions, in just 16% of the area of North America, is large enough to account for the discrepancy between TBMs and inversions across the whole continent. The majority of these differences occur in permafrost, peatland, and cropland regions. In these regions, we find a higher likelihood of potential biases in the weaker sink estimates from TBMs, suggesting that the stronger sink implied by inversions is more likely to be realistic. However, the current observational coverage is insufficient for fully assessing the causes of discrepancies or the magnitude of biases in either approach. Encouragingly, improved representation of agricultural processes in a TBM led to better agreement with inversions in croplands. Efforts to accurately model cropland dynamics will help improve agreement between TBMs and inversions. Overall, this work presents a clear path for reconciling the discrepancies between inversion and TBM estimates of the North American carbon sink that have persisted for two decades.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008460","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256043","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heike Schimmel, Wulf Amelung, Nina Gottselig, Maria-Teresa Sebastiá, Jan Jacob Keizer, Martinho A. S. Martins, Annalea Lohila, Christin Müller, Hjalmar Laudon, Erwin Klumpp, Melanie Braun
{"title":"Natural Nanoparticles and Colloids in Forested Streams Across Europe: Seasonal Patterns and Impact of Soil Groups","authors":"Heike Schimmel, Wulf Amelung, Nina Gottselig, Maria-Teresa Sebastiá, Jan Jacob Keizer, Martinho A. S. Martins, Annalea Lohila, Christin Müller, Hjalmar Laudon, Erwin Klumpp, Melanie Braun","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008467","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The element loss from forested ecosystems is largely reflected by the so-called dissolved phase (<450 nm) in stream waters. However, natural colloids (1 nm–1 μm), including natural nanoparticles (NNP, 1–100 nm), constitute a major but largely unexplored part of this dissolved phase. We hypothesized (a) that there is a systematic seasonal variation in colloidal concentrations across European catchments, and (b) that the colloidal concentrations are mainly controlled by site conditions, that is, prevalent reference soil groups. To test these hypotheses, the base flow of seven stream waters was sampled from a transect across Europe from Northern Finland to Portugal at monthly intervals for 1 year. Three colloidal size fractions (1–20 nm, >20–60 nm, and >60 nm) were identified using field flow fractionation coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry and an organic carbon detector for the size-resolved detection of Al, Si, P, Ca, Mg, Mn, Fe, Zn, and organic C. Colloids accounted for up to 90%–100% of total element concentrations, emphasizing the importance of colloids for element cycling. Element concentrations showed seasonal patterns in stream waters. However, these patterns differed between the catchments with distinct soil groups: the catchments with dystrophic terrestrial soils exhibited peak flows in colloidal element concentrations during spring, whereas those with eutrophic terrestrial soils did during summer. By contrast, catchments with Gleysols showed season-unrelated single peaks of high element export. Peak concentrations were also influenced by the climatic regime, which in turn impacted colloid abundance.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144256040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantifying Lithogenic Inputs to the Ocean From the GEOTRACES Thorium Transects in a Data-Assimilation Model","authors":"Hairong Xu, Thomas Weber","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008485","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The primordial thorium (Th) isotope <sup>232</sup>Th is delivered to global ocean waters by lithogenic material dissolution, originating from dust deposition on the ocean surface and seafloor sediments around continental margins. Radiogenic <sup>230</sup>Th shares the same particle-scavenging removal processes as <sup>232</sup>Th but has a simpler source from uniform <sup>234</sup>U decay. The <sup>232</sup>Th–<sup>230</sup>Th isotope system is therefore widely used to jointly constrain source and sink processes and infer lithogenic trace element inputs but has not been leveraged systematically at the global scale. This study utilizes data-assimilation models of the <sup>230</sup>Th and <sup>232</sup>Th cycles to draw global insights from GEOTRACES section data. Optimization of <sup>230</sup>Th model reveals that scavenging onto biogenic particles is the largest Th removal mechanism globally, but regional-scale losses are dominated by scavenging onto metal oxides near hydrothermal vents, nepheloid layer particles along deep margins, and lithogenic particles beneath dust plumes. Together with large-scale ocean circulation, these processes shape the global distribution of <sup>230</sup>Th. A subsequent ensemble of <sup>232</sup>Th model optimizations reveals that the observed <sup>232</sup>Th distribution is consistent with a global source of 2.8 ± 0.54 Mmol/yr from dust dissolution, and implies a higher and more homogeneous solubility of <sup>232</sup>Th relative to other lithogenic trace elements. An additional source of 5.25 ± 0.86 Mmol/yr from lithogenic sediment dissolution is required to match observed <sup>232</sup>Th, with a distribution controlled by sediment lithology and accumulation rate. This translates to an oceanic Fe source of 5–50 Gmol/yr, highlighting the need to resolve this process in Fe cycle models that often only consider a reductive sedimentary source.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008485","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oligotrophic Ocean New Production Supported by Lateral Transport of Dissolved Organic Nutrients","authors":"Zhou Liang, Robert T. Letscher, Angela N. Knapp","doi":"10.1029/2024GB008345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2024GB008345","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Dissolved organic nitrogen (DON) and phosphorus (DOP) are potential nutrient sources to sustain productivity in the oligotrophic ocean where inorganic nutrient concentrations are low. Variations in the carbon(C):nitrogen(N):phosphorus(P) stoichiometry of surface ocean dissolved organic matter (DOM) can trace patterns of DON and DOP production and consumption; however, concurrent dissolved organic carbon (DOC), DON, and DOP concentration observations are limited. Using new global ocean DOM concentration data sets, we develop inverse DOC and DON models to obtain global ocean DOC and DON concentration fields and associated biogeochemical fluxes. Including autotrophic DON uptake improves the model fit to observations. Combining our modeled DOC and DON concentration fields with a global ocean DOP concentration field from our previous inverse DOP model, we obtain a modeled global ocean DOM stoichiometry field. We further evaluate the lateral transport of semi-labile DON (SLDON) and semi-labile DOP (SLDOP) to the oligotrophic low latitudes (15° to 40°) and identify the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic as important sources of SLDON and SLDOP. We also quantify the preferential loss of DON and DOP relative to DOC from the surface to 500 m, which, with physical circulation, may retain nutrients in the gyres, further enhancing productivity. Our findings highlight two modes by which DON and DOP serve as organic nutrient sources to sustain productivity in the oligotrophic low latitudes, with lateral transport more important and capable of supporting ∼6–15% of export production in these regions.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1029/2024GB008345","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144232245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Microbial Carbon Accumulation Efficiency in Global Soils Resolved via 13C-Glucose Amendment Experiments","authors":"Wanjia Hu, Yue Cai, Xingqi Li, Cheng Wang, Juan Jia, Xiaojuan Feng","doi":"10.1029/2025GB008553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GB008553","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Accurately assessing the efficiency of microbial carbon (C) conversion and accumulation associated with soil “microbial C pump” (MCP) is essential for understanding microbial-mediated soil C sequestration. Conventional assessments based on microbial C use efficiency (CUE) hinge on living biomass only and do not include microbial necromass, which may not depict microbial C accumulation. Here we propose a simple and rapid approach based on <sup>13</sup>C-glucose amendment experiment to assess microbial C accumulation efficiency (CAE) in a relatively short term. We first validated the approach by showing negligible sorption of glucose to soils with a wide range of edaphic properties. Glucose-derived <sup>13</sup>C may hence be considered to represent microbial C (including biomass and residues) after a few days of addition, given the rapid uptake of glucose by microbes. Microbial CAE may thus be assessed as the recovery of glucose-derived <sup>13</sup>C in the soil. By further conducting a meta-analysis of literature data involving isotopically labeled glucose amendment experiments, we revealed distinct variation patterns and influencing factors of CAE and CUE across various terrestrial ecosystems. Compared to CUE, which is mainly regulated by factors influencing microbial physiological processes (particularly substrate availability), CAE is jointly regulated by factors that influence microbial growth and residue persistence (e.g., clay content). These findings underscore that CAE is decoupled from CUE. Given the potential divergence in microbial biomass and residue responses to environmental perturbations, CAE provides a more accurate measure of microbial C conversion and accumulation efficiency than CUE, enabling a clearer understanding of MCP dynamics under global changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":12729,"journal":{"name":"Global Biogeochemical Cycles","volume":"39 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144206679","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}