How Michaelis-Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability

Qin Zhang; Chuixiang Yi; Georgia Destouni; Georg Wohlfahrt; Yakov Kuzyakov; Runze Li; Eric Kutter; Deliang Chen; Max Rietkerk; Zhenkun Tian; George Hendrey; Wei Fang; Nir Krakauer; Jerker Jarsjo; Jianxu Han; Shiguo Xu

doi:10.1088/1748-9326/adc31a

How Michaelis-Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability

Qin Zhang
, Chuixiang Yi^*
, Georgia Destouni
, Georg Wohlfahrt
, Yakov Kuzyakov
, Runze Li
, Eric Kutter
, Deliang Chen
, Max Rietkerk
, Zhenkun Tian
, George Hendrey
, Wei Fang
, Nir Krakauer
, Jerker Jarsjo
, Jianxu Han
, Shiguo Xu

^*Corresponding author for this work

Spatial Ecology and Global Change

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Original language	English
Article number	041003
Journal	Environmental Research Letters
Volume	20
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc31a
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2025

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Arrhenius model
climate change
ecosystem respiration
Michaelis-Menten kinetics
temperature sensitivity
threshold precipitation function

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Zhang, Q., Yi, C., Destouni, G., Wohlfahrt, G., Kuzyakov, Y., Li, R., Kutter, E., Chen, D., Rietkerk, M., Tian, Z., Hendrey, G., Fang, W., Krakauer, N., Jarsjo, J., Han, J., & Xu, S. (2025). How Michaelis-Menten kinetics can represent ecosystem-scale respiration: scale and applicability. Environmental Research Letters, 20(4), Article 041003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/adc31a

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