Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

Manzoni, Stefano; Čapek, Petr; Porada, Philipp; Thurner, Martin; Winterdahl, Mattias; Beer, Christian; Brüchert, Volker; Frouz, Jan; Herrmann, Anke M.; Lindahl, Björn D.; Lyon, Steve W.; Šantrůčková, Hana; Vico, Giulia; Way, Danielle

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 19

Reviews and syntheses

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09 Oct 2018

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Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – definitions, theories, and empirical evidence

Stefano Manzoni, Petr Čapek, Philipp Porada, Martin Thurner, Mattias Winterdahl, Christian Beer, Volker Brüchert, Jan Frouz, Anke M. Herrmann, Björn D. Lindahl, Steve W. Lyon, Hana Šantrůčková, Giulia Vico, and Danielle Way

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RC1: 'Referee comment on Manzoni et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Stefano Manzoni, 16 Aug 2018
RC2: 'Review of "Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – Definitions, theories, and empirical evidence"', Anonymous Referee #2, 05 Jul 2018
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Stefano Manzoni, 16 Aug 2018
RC3: 'feedback', Anonymous Referee #3, 13 Jul 2018
- AC3: 'Response to Reviewer 3', Stefano Manzoni, 16 Aug 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (22 Aug 2018) by Sebastiaan Luyssaert

AR by Stefano Manzoni on behalf of the Authors (10 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (19 Sep 2018) by Sebastiaan Luyssaert

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Carbon fixed by plants and phytoplankton through photosynthesis is ultimately stored in soils and sediments or released to the atmosphere during decomposition of dead biomass. Carbon-use efficiency is a useful metric to quantify the fate of carbon – higher efficiency means higher storage and lower release to the atmosphere. Here we summarize many definitions of carbon-use efficiency and study how this metric changes from organisms to ecosystems and from terrestrial to aquatic environments.