Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

Soil organic carbon stocks in topsoil and subsoil controlled by parent material, carbon input in the rhizosphere, and microbial-derived compounds

(2018) Gerrit Angst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

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

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Networking our science to characterize the state, vulnerabilities, and management opportunities of soil organic matter

(2017) Jennifer W. Harden et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Spatial distribution and chemical composition of soil organic matter fractions in rhizosphere and non-rhizosphere soil under European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.)

(2016) Gerrit Angst et al.   GEODERMA

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

Low stabilization of aboveground crop residue carbon in sandy soils of Swedish long-term experiments

(2015) Christopher Poeplau et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

Understanding the incremental value of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis

(2015) Nimalan Arinaminpathy et al.   NATURE

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

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Greater humification of belowground than aboveground biomass carbon into particulate soil organic matter in no-till corn and soybean crops

(2015) Sebastián R. Mazzilli et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fate of ectomycorrhizal fungal biomass in a soil bioreactor system and its contribution to soil organic matter formation

(2015) Michael Schweigert et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Similar composition but differential stability of mineral retained organic matter across four classes of clay minerals

(2014) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

(2012) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Selective Sorption of Dissolved Organic Carbon Compounds by Temperate Soils

(2012) Sindhu Jagadamma et al.   PLoS One

Relation between Soil Order and Sorption of Dissolved Organic Carbon in Temperate Subsoils

(2012) Melanie A. Mayes et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

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

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Microbial production of recalcitrant organic matter in global soils: implications for productivity and climate policy

(2010) Chao Liang et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Soil aggregation and carbon sequestration are tightly correlated with the abundance of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: results from long-term field experiments

(2009) Gail W. T. Wilson et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Molecular dynamics of shoot vs. root biomarkers in an agricultural soil estimated by natural abundance 13C labelling

(2009) M. Mendez-Millan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A comparative study of dissolved organic carbon transport and stabilization in California forest and grassland soils

(2008) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Effect of gamma-sterilization and autoclaving on soil organic matter structure as studied by solid state NMR, UV and fluorescence spectroscopy

(2008) A. E. Berns et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

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

New approach for capturing soluble root exudates in forest soils

(2008) Richard P. Phillips et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

13C and 15N stabilization dynamics in soil organic matter fractions during needle and fine root decomposition

(2008) Jeffrey A. Bird et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY