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Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3995-2026
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-23-3995-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 23, issue 12
Research article
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19 Jun 2026
Research article |  | 19 Jun 2026

Divergent carbon use efficiency-growth rate tradeoff in popular biological growth models

Jinyun Tang, William J. Riley, Gianna L. Marschmann, and Eoin L. Brodie

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Carbon Use Efficiency (CUE) measures how biological organisms use carbon to synthesize new biomass, inferred to first increase and then decrease with specific growth rate. Our analysis of six biological growth models reveals that source-driven models fail to capture this relationship, while sink-driven models, using a reserve biomass pool, succeed. Existing biogeochemical models often depict a deterministic CUE-controlling factor relationship, which we find should be modeled dynamically instead.
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