Articles | Volume 15, issue 22
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8377-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-8377-2022
Model description paper
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18 Nov 2022
Model description paper |  | 18 Nov 2022

Simulating long-term responses of soil organic matter turnover to substrate stoichiometry by abstracting fast and small-scale microbial processes: the Soil Enzyme Steady Allocation Model (SESAM; v3.0)

Thomas Wutzler, Lin Yu, Marion Schrumpf, and Sönke Zaehle

Model code and software

Sesam Julia package Thomas Wutzler https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7188881

Sesam R package Thomas wutzler https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6758806

Short summary
Soil microbes process soil organic matter and affect carbon storage and plant nutrition at the ecosystem scale. We hypothesized that decadal dynamics is constrained by the ratios of elements in litter inputs, microbes, and matter and that microbial community optimizes growth. This allowed the SESAM model to descibe decadal-term carbon sequestration in soils and other biogeochemical processes explicitly accounting for microbial processes but without its problematic fine-scale parameterization.