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Multiple mechanisms have been proposed to create the relationship between these environmental factors and soil respiration rate. Yet the application of such mechanisms into high-performance reactive transport frameworks is sparse and incomplete, and thus currently limits cross-field interpolations. To fill in these gaps, I have established a novel process-based reactive transport framework incorporating the transition between active and dormant biomass as a function of soil moisture, to improve the accuracy of model simulations in reproducing data collected from both incubation experiment and the field. This advanced model is applied to both paleo-studies as a means of more accurately reconstructing past atmospheric CO2 concentration variations, and interpolations to evaluate future climate changes. 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