Eco-Evolutionary Optimality in Soil Organic Matter Models.

ABSTRACT: Soil microorganisms mediate carbon and nutrient fluxes in soils, and-as all organisms-are subject to eco-evolutionary dynamics. Adaptation of soil microbial functionality to environmental conditions across space and time has consequences for biogeochemical fluxes that are often not explicitly considered in models describing soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics. Eco-evolutionary optimization (EEO) tries to anticipate the outcome of eco-evolutionary dynamics, and can inform on how microbial functional traits might adapt to environmental conditions based on the maximisation of different proxies of microbial fitness. While different approaches employ different fitness proxies, they all aim to increase realism and generality by grounding SOM models in eco-evolutionary theory and introducing const

SUBMITTER: Schwarz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12717351 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature