Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil emissions.
Heating alone won’t drive soil microbes to release more carbon dioxide — they need added carbon and nutrients to thrive. This finding challenges assumptions about how climate warming influences soil emissions.
If you have a look at the figures in the study, only adding N and P did not significantly increase CO2 emissions.
Only when also adding carbon to the soil (which has been a starved kind of soil to begin with) emissions were increased.
Which is kinda… obvious??
Here is the link to the relevant figures:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10533-025-01265-0/figures/1
Thanks! Just that byline made it weird, but also agreed that adding carbon to “starved” soil makes sense that it would begin to emit more 🙃