Increasing temperatures stimulate the decomposition of soil organic matter in the short term. But a shift in microbial carbon allocation could mitigate this response over longer periods of time.
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Ågren, G. Microbial mitigation. Nature Geosci 3, 303–304 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo857
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