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ERC Starting Grant · 2024

Global Adaptation of soil Microbes under Environmental Change

The representation of soil carbon in models used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) remains significantly underdeveloped, leading to uncertainty concerning some models predicting soils as carbon sinks and others as sources of carbon dioxide. The development of microbe-explicit models is a very promising avenue for avoiding such inconsistencies and obtaining more accurate soil organic carbon (SOC) predictions. However, these models still suffer from uncertain parameterization due to the lack of data and the high variability in microbial responses at the ecosystem scale. These issues are especially true in carbon-rich northern high-latitude soils that are most vulnerable…

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