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Importance of Carbon   There are 2,300 Pg of carbon (C) stored in soils worldwide, excluding plant biomass, which accounts for \sim 80\% of the global terrestrial C pool \cite{Amundson_2001,IPCC 2000,IPCC 2007,elsen_Ayres_Wall_Bardgett_2011,Lal_2008,BATJES_1996}, http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/363/1492/815.full). Current climate change models concur on atmospheric and ocean C predictions but not terrestrial (Friedlingstein 2006). The disagreeable predictive power between models for terrestrial ecosystems reflects how little we know about belowground C cycling dynamics. It is estimated that 80-90\% of the C cycling in soil is mediated by microorganisms (\cite{ColemanCrossley_1996}, Nannipieri & Badalucco 2003). Understanding microbial processing of nutrients in soils presents a special challenge due to the hetergeneous nature of soil ecosystems and our limitations in methodologies. Soils consist of an overwhelming biological, chemical, and physical complexity which affects microbial community composition, diversity, and structure (refs). Confounding factors such as physical protection/aggregation, moisture content, pH, temperature, frequency and type of land disturbance, soil history, mineralogy, N quality and availability, and litter quality have all been shown to affect the ability of the soil microbial community to access and metabolize C substrates \cite{Schlesinger_1977,dgett_Wall_Hattenschwiler_2010,Sollins_Homann_Caldwell_1996,Torn_Vitousek_Trumbore_2005,TRUMBORE_2006}\cite{Schimel_2012}. Furthermore, rates of metabolism are often measured without knowing the identity of the microbial species specifically involved \cite{ndi_Pietramellara_Renella_2003} resulting in uncertainty in importance of community diversity in maintaining ecosystem functioning (Allison & Martiny 2008, \cite{e.g.ndi_Pietramellara_Renella_2003}. \cite{ndi_Pietramellara_Renella_2003}.  "Substantial differences among allocation patterns are associated with microbes’ life-history strategies and hence with their phylogeny. Further, the ways in which microbes allocate C can influence soil structure and function and so alter microbial habitats and overall soil functioning." \cite{Schimel_2012}