Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

The root of the matter: Linking root traits and soil organic matter stabilization processes

(2018) Vincent Poirier et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Cover crop root contributions to soil carbon in a no-till corn bioenergy cropping system

(2017) Emily E. Austin et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Decrease of soil organic matter stabilization with increasing inputs: Mechanisms and controls

(2017) Muhammad Shahbaz et al.   GEODERMA

Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls

(2016) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Nature Communications

Contribution of roots and amendments to soil carbon accumulation within the soil profile in a long-term field experiment in Sweden

(2015) Lorenzo Menichetti et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Long-term doubling of litter inputs accelerates soil organic matter degradation and reduces soil carbon stocks

(2015) Oliva Pisani et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Rhizosphere processes are quantitatively important components of terrestrial carbon and nutrient cycles

(2015) Adrien C. Finzi et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Partitioning NEE for absolute C input into various ecosystem pools by combining results from eddy-covariance, atmospheric flux partitioning and 13CO2 pulse labeling

(2015) M. Riederer et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Changes to particulate versus mineral-associated soil carbon after 50 years of litter manipulation in forest and prairie experimental ecosystems

(2014) Kate Lajtha et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Mineral soil carbon pool responses to forest clearing in Northeastern hardwood forests

(2014) Chelsea L. Petrenko et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Plant litter chemistry and microbial priming regulate the accrual, composition and stability of soil carbon in invaded ecosystems

(2014) Mioko Tamura et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Litter and Root Manipulations Provide Insights into Soil Organic Matter Dynamics and Stability

(2014) Kate Lajtha et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Empirical evidence that soil carbon formation from plant inputs is positively related to microbial growth

(2013) Mark A. Bradford et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

(2013) K. E. Clemmensen et al.   SCIENCE

Final Collapse of the Neyman-Pearson Decision Theoretic Framework and Rise of the neoFisherian

(2012) Stuart H. Hurlbert et al.   ANNALES ZOOLOGICI FENNICI

Plant invasion impacts on arthropod abundance, diversity and feeding consistent across environmental and geographic gradients

(2012) Yaya Tang et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Roots and fungi accelerate carbon and nitrogen cycling in forests exposed to elevated CO2

(2012) Richard P. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Grass Invasions Across a Regional Gradient are Associated with Declines in Belowground Carbon Pools

(2012) Timothy D. Kramer et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

The Microbial Efficiency-Matrix Stabilization (MEMS) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

(2012) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Root carbon flow from an invasive plant to belowground foodwebs

(2012) Mark A. Bradford et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Roots contribute more to refractory soil organic matter than above-ground crop residues, as revealed by a long-term field experiment

(2011) Thomas Kätterer et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Grass invasion of a hardwood forest is associated with declines in belowground carbon pools

(2009) MICHAEL S. STRICKLAND et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of biological invasions on forest carbon sequestration

(2009) D. A. PELTZER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Through the eye of the needle: a review of isotope approaches to quantify microbial processes mediating soil carbon balance

(2009) Eric Paterson et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Carbon flow in the rhizosphere: carbon trading at the soil–root interface

(2009) D. L. Jones et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Simultaneous Inference in General Parametric Models

(2008) Torsten Hothorn et al.   BIOMETRICAL JOURNAL

Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to soils

(2008) M. A. Bradford et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Shrub (Prosopis velutina) encroachment in a semidesert grassland: spatial-temporal changes in soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools

(2008) HEATHER L. THROOP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY