DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwag475 ISSN: 2095-5138
Impacts of multitrophic biological loop on soil carbon sequestration
Guixiang Zhou, Junxi Liu, Jiabao ZhangInteractions among soil viruses, microbes and soil fauna form a unified soil biological loop that shapes microbial necromass and controls soil carbon storage. This work extends the microbial carbon pump theory by introducing the virus-mediated microbial carbon pump, offering a new framework to explain soil carbon sequestration under global change.