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. 2013 Nov 12;4:333. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2013.00333

FIGURE 2.

FIGURE 2

Theoretical framework for soil organic matter (SOM) dynamics, emphasizing the central role that soil microbes play in both SOM decomposition and formation. The rate of all of the processes (red italics) is temperature dependent, and hence stock sizes of SOM will be dependent on how warming affects the rate of each relative to one another.