Steven Allison

Dec 19, 2024 | nature.com | Steven Allison

Soil models include a key parameter known as carbon use efficiency, which impacts estimates of global carbon storage by determining the flow of carbon into soil pools versus the atmosphere. Microbial-explicit versions of these models are due for an update that recasts carbon use efficiency as an output variable emerging from microbial metabolism.

Sep 13, 2024 | nature.com | Xianjin He |Steven Allison |Yuanyuan Huang |Stefano Manzoni |Rose Z. Abramoff |Elisa Bruni | +11 more

AbstractMicrobial carbon use efficiency (CUE) affects the fate and storage of carbon in terrestrial ecosystems, but its global importance remains uncertain. Accurately modeling and predicting CUE on a global scale is challenging due to inconsistencies in measurement techniques and the complex interactions of climatic, edaphic, and biological factors across scales.

May 12, 2024 | nature.com | Steven Allison

replying to E. D. Osburn et al. Nature Microbiology https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-024-01687-w (2024)In a recent paper, we used soil metagenomes from global biomes to assess life history strategies across soil bacterial communities1. We compiled 102 traits in a multi-table coinertia analysis to characterize the life history strategies of soil bacteria.