Linking microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity: Implications for soil carbon dynamics

作者：Ji Chen, Robert L. Sinsabaugh · 发表于：Global Change Biology · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1111/gcb.15506 · 被引用次数：224 · 研究领域：Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics、Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology、Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks

Emerging evidence indicates that enzyme-catalyzed transformation and degradation of soil organic matter at the ecosystem scale is more likely driven by microbial functional gene abundance, rather than short term induction/repression responses. In this paper, we are trying to highlight the potential links between microbial functional gene abundance and soil extracellular enzyme activity. Those links will likely offer a new path for optimizing the model performance of microbial-mediated soil C dynamics from microbial functional gene perspectives.