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Session Proposal: <em>Advancing Understanding of Microbial-Explicit Mechanisms of Biogeochemical Processes Through Cross-Disciplinary Integration</em> (AGU25)

B034
Advancing Understanding of Microbial-Explicit Mechanisms of Biogeochemical Processes Through Cross-Disciplinary Integration

Session ID#: 249856

Session Description:
Microorganisms play a key role in governing soil carbon persistence and fluxes, nutrient availability, and plant-soil interactions. Over the past decade, there have been major advancements in identifying and connecting microbial functional groups to ecosystem processes (e.g., stable isotope probing, biogeochemical transformations, amplicon sequencing and integrative -omics, genotype–phenotype mapping, functional gene analysis, etc.) and an effort to represent these microbial driven processes in biogeochemical models. Notably, microbial-explicit models project different carbon and nitrogen implications in response to climate, disturbance, and land management than traditional models without microbial-explicit processes. Developing, parameterizing, and validating new models requires linking the expertise of experimentalists and modelers and co-designing integrated experiments to address foundational questions in ecology. We invite abstract submissions demonstrating cross-discipline collaborations that explore plant-microbe-soil interactions in the rhizosphere and/or their incorporation in biogeochemical models.
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0476 Plant ecology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Danielle Berardi, University of Idaho, Institute for Innovative Climate Solutions, Moscow, ID, United States
Conveners:  Laurel Lynch, University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States, Emily Bonnell Graham, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States and Edward R Brzostek, West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, United States
 
Autotrophy is a key and overlooked microbial metabolism in diverse soil ecosystems (Invited) (1862829)
Amelia Rose Kuhn1,2, Alexander L Jaffe3, Petar Penev4, Bethany Kolody2, Preston Tasoff5, Jennifer Pett-Ridge6 and Jillian F Banfield7, (1)University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)Stanford University, Earth System Science, Stanford, United States, (4)University of California Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Berkeley, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, (6)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, CA, United States, (7)University of California, Berkeley, Earth and Planetary Science, Berkeley, United States
 
Shrinking snowpacks and microbial phenology: Exposing knowledge gaps under the snow (Invited) (1902216)
William R Wieder1, Austin Simonpietri2, Genevieve Blumencwejg3, Bruce A Hungate4, Mariah S. Carbone3, Hannah Holland Moritz5, Caitlin Hicks Pries6, Stuart Grandy5, Jessica Gilman Ernakovich7, Shuyue Li8, Emily Bonnell Graham9, Laurel Lynch10, Michael Strickland11, Tara W Hudiburg12 and Team Snodgrass, Team EMBER, Team PRIM2ED, Team Niwot Ridge LTER, (1)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, United States, (2)Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, CO, United States, (3)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (4)Northern Arizona University, Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, United States, (6)Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, United States, (7)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States, (8)University of Idaho, Moscow, United States, (9)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (10)University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States, (11)University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, United States, (12)University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States
 
Microbial friends or foes? Germination of ponderosa pine is enhanced in 800℃ charred soils while survival is hindered by a fungal pathogen in 200℃ charred soils (1920862)
Janice Parks1, Peter Goebel2, Noah Arts2, Una Griffith2, Danish Gul3, Annie Ball2, Jyoti Kashyap2, Winslow Hansen4, Emily Bonnell Graham5,6, N. Cecilia Martinez-Gomez7, Tanya Cheeke6, Klas Udekwu8, Lon Chubiz3, Christopher Marx9, Laurel Lynch10 and Tara W Hudiburg11, (1)University of Idaho, Institute for Innovative Climate Solutions, Moscow, ID, United States, (2)University of Idaho, Institute for Innovative Climate Solutions, Moscow, United States, (3)University of Missouri St Louis, Biology, St Louis, United States, (4)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United States, (5)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (6)Washington State University, School of Biological Sciences, Pullman, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Plant and Microbial Biology, Berkeley, United States, (8)University of Idaho, Biological Sciences, Moscow, United States, (9)University of Idaho, Biological Sciences, Moscow, ID, United States, (10)University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States, (11)University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States
 
Developing the MEMS Model for Simulating Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics with Microbial-Explicit Mechanisms (1926345)
Jorge Locatelli1, Paige Hansen2, M Francesca Cotrufo2 and Yao Zhang1, (1)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (2)Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States
 
Tracing the Fate of Soil Carbon Inputs Under Changing Nutrient Conditions to Enhance Understanding of the Earth System (1929187)
Torrey Stephenson, University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, ID, United States and Laurel Lynch, University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States
 
Beyond the Surface: Simulating the Effects of Plant–Microbe Interactions on Soil Carbon Dynamics in Boreal Forests (1947023)
Elisabeth Woerner, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Rosie Fisher, CICERO Center for International Climate Research, Oslo, Norway and Terje Berntsen, University of Oslo, Department of Geosciences, Oslo, Norway
 
Soil microbial communities are consequential in shaping the future carbon trajectories of wet and dry eucalyptus forests (1955453)
Justin Michael Mathias, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, Torrey Stephenson, University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, ID, United States, Danielle Berardi, University of Idaho, Institute for Innovative Climate Solutions, Moscow, ID, United States, Cooper Moon, Colorado School of Mines, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Golden, CO, United States, Menna Jones, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Tara W Hudiburg, University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Moscow, United States and Laurel Lynch, University of Idaho, Soil and Water Systems, Moscow, United States
 
Microbial Carbon Use Efficiency Across Soil Aggregate Scales in Conventionally and Organically Managed Agricultural Systems (1956513)
Cameron Kyle McMillan, University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, Andrew Curtright, Michigan State University, East Lansing, United States; University of California Davis, Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States, William R Horwath, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, United States, Xiaofeng Xu, San Diego State University, Department of Biology, San Diego, United States and Jorge L. Mazza Rodrigues, University of California Davis, Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, Davis, CA, United States
 
Measuring and Modeling the Response of Plant-Microbial Interactions to the Cessation of Excess Nitrogen Inputs in Temperate Forest Soils (1964711)
Edward R Brzostek1, Hannah DeHetre2, Emel Kangi3, Jansen Nipko4, Elyse Stone3 and Jeth Walkup5, (1)West Virginia University, Biology, Morgantown, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown WV, United States, (4)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, United States, (5)University of California Irvine, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Irvine, United States
 
Molecular Crosstalk Facilitates Nitrogen Fixation in Desert Soils (1969747)
Finlay Warsop Thomas1, Jake Drewes1, Corey Nelson2, Trent Northen3, Suzanne M Kosina4 and Ferran Garcia-Pichel1, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (2)University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Drought Constrains Fertilization-Induced Losses in Soil Microbial Efficiency (1971099)
Shelby Kucharski, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States, Jane Lucas, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Milbrook, United States and Chris Wilson, University of Florida, Agronomy, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States
 
Metals and Microbes: Assessing the Influence of Urban Land Use on Metal-Microbe Interactions throughout Chicago, Illinois (1974894)
Sierra Raglin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, United States, Angela Kent, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, Andrew J. Margenot, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States and Marynia Kolak, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Geography & Geographic Information Science, Urbana, United States
 
Relationships between Soil Carbon Fractions and Microbial Community Dynamics Across a Chronosequence of Abandoned Paddy Fields (1982745)
Seoyeon Kim1, Ye Lim Park1, Jeehwan Bae2 and Gayoung Yoo3, (1)Kyung Hee University, Department of Applied Environmental Science, Yongin, Korea, Republic of (South), (2)Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin, South Korea, (3)Kyung Hee University, Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
 
Integrating and parameterizing saprotrophic functional groups into a microbially explicit soil carbon model (1985144)
Tanner Hoffman1, Binu Tripathi2, Jeth Walkup2, Edward R Brzostek3 and Ember Morrissey4, (1)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, Morgantown, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, United States, (4)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States
 
High microbial carbon and nitrogen use efficiencies increase soil organic matter through necromass formation (1992748)
Chunli Wang, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Juelich, North Rhine-Westphalia, GERMANY, Yakov Kuzyakov, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany and Roland Bol, Forschungszentrum Julich GmbH, IBG-3, Julich, Germany
 
Testing the microbial carbon acquisition ecological strategy framework across biomes to support microbially explicit modeling (Invited) (1995796)
Ember Morrissey1, Binu Tripathi2, Tanner Hoffman3, Jeth Walkup2, Rebecca Ozbolt2 and Edward R Brzostek4, (1)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, WV, United States, (2)West Virginia University, Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, Morgantown, United States, (3)West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, United States, (4)West Virginia University, Department of Biology, Morgantown, United States
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