Instantaneous incubation responses change depending on prior temperature. This change does not correspond to biomass size and is larger in Arctic/boreal soils and smaller in agricultural soils. One of my personal favorite incubation studies, this is a clever use of a single cooling-warming incubation cycle over the course of several months. Karhu etal 2014 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13604 #SoilBiogeochemistry #Incubation #SoilTemperatureResponse #SoilCarbonModel #SciLit

Models are the bridge between theory and data. With new omics and other tools being increasing applied to soil carbon cycling, how well are our models making this connection? Schimel 2023 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2023.108948 concludes that microbial explicit models are still, very much, in the development phase and outlines why this is a hard problem. #SoilCarbonModel #MicrobialEcology #SoilBGC #SoilCarbonCycling #ReviewArticle #SciLit