On the error of respiration flux calculation along the pH gradient (comment to the study of Schroeder and co-authors (2024))

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071724001263?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0038071724001263?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109437" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.soilbio.2024.109437</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

On the error of respiration flux calculation along the pH gradient (comment to the study of Schroeder and co-authors (2024))

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Schroeder and co-authors (2024) recently attempted to accomplish a very challenging task, i.e. to quantify the effect of pH change caused by liming on carbon use efficiency (CUE) of soil microbial biomass. The information provided by the authors in the &apos;Material and Methods&apos; section and the Supplementary data file raise concerns about the precision of authors&apos; main conclusions due to a possible error in the calculation of the respiration flux and thus CUE across the gradient of soil pH. In our letter, we calculate the theoretical relative error of respiration flux measurement across the pH gradient using information provided by Schroeder and co-authors (2024). We show that the relative error increases to almost 84% when soil pH increases to 8.6. This estimate is significantly higher as compared to the relative error calculated by the authors in the Supplementary data file for the same experimental conditions (i.e. 0.7%). We also show how the calculated error can affect the main conclusion. We believe that the authors need to explain their calculations and possibly correct the article, as the current description of methods and results raise concerns about misleading interpretations.

Název v anglickém jazyce

On the error of respiration flux calculation along the pH gradient (comment to the study of Schroeder and co-authors (2024))

Popis výsledku anglicky

Schroeder and co-authors (2024) recently attempted to accomplish a very challenging task, i.e. to quantify the effect of pH change caused by liming on carbon use efficiency (CUE) of soil microbial biomass. The information provided by the authors in the &apos;Material and Methods&apos; section and the Supplementary data file raise concerns about the precision of authors&apos; main conclusions due to a possible error in the calculation of the respiration flux and thus CUE across the gradient of soil pH. In our letter, we calculate the theoretical relative error of respiration flux measurement across the pH gradient using information provided by Schroeder and co-authors (2024). We show that the relative error increases to almost 84% when soil pH increases to 8.6. This estimate is significantly higher as compared to the relative error calculated by the authors in the Supplementary data file for the same experimental conditions (i.e. 0.7%). We also show how the calculated error can affect the main conclusion. We believe that the authors need to explain their calculations and possibly correct the article, as the current description of methods and results raise concerns about misleading interpretations.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

40104 - Soil science

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2024

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Soil Biology &amp; Biochemistry

ISSN

0038-0717

e-ISSN

1879-3428

Svazek periodika

194

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

JUL 2024

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

4

Strana od-do

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Kód UT WoS článku

001220343800001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85190794810