Extracellular enzyme stoichiometry reveals carbon and nitrogen limitations closely linked to bacterial communities in China’s largest saline lake

Saline lakes possess substantial carbon storage and play essential roles in global carbon cycling. Benthic microorganisms mine and decompose sediment organic matter via extracellular enzymes to acquire limiting nutrients and thus meet their element budgets, which ultimately causes variations in sedi...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Microbiology
Main Authors:	Weizhen Zhang, Yongqin Liu, Mengdie Geng, Ruirui Chen, Jiyi Wang, Bin Xue, Ping Xie, Jianjun Wang
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Subjects:	extracellular enzyme microbial metabolic limitations saline lakes bacterial community composition sediment carbon storage
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.1002542/full