Genome-enabled Modeling of Microbial Biogeochemistry using a Trait-based Approach. Does Increasing Metabolic Complexity Increase Predictive Capabilities?

Eric King1, Ulas Karaoz2, Sergi Molins3, Nicholas Bouskill4, Karthik Anantharaman5, Harry R Beller2, Jillian F Banfield6, Carl I Steefel7 and Eoin Brodie8, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate & Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Ecology, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (8)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States