Response of Microbial Growth and Carbon Use Efficiency to Crop Rotational Diversity Across a Soil-Climate Gradient

Maria Mooshammer1, Stuart Grandy2, Kevin Geyer2, Francisco Calderon3, Steve Culman4, Bill Deen5, Rhae Drijber6, Kari Edith Dunfield7, Serita D Frey8, Virginia Jin9, Michael Lehman10, Shannon Osborne10, Marty Schmer11, Wolfgang Wanek12 and Timothy Bowles1, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Natural Resources and the Environment, Durham, NH, United States, (3)United States Department of Agriculture, USDA-ARS Central Great Plains Research Station, Akron, CO, United States, (4)Ohio State University, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Wooster, OH, United States, (5)University of Guelph, Department of Plant Agriculture, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Agronomy and Horticulture, Lincoln, NE, United States, (7)University of Guelph, School of Environmental Sciences, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, (9)USDA-ARS, Lincoln, NE, United States, (10)USDA-ARS, Brookings, SD, United States, (11)USDA Agricultural Research Service, Lincoln, NE, United States, (12)University of Vienna, Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, Vienna, Austria