Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

Pathways of soil organic matter formation from above and belowground inputs in a Sorghum bicolor bioenergy crop

(2019) Sarah Fulton-Smith et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

A mechanistic model of microbially mediated soil biogeochemical processes ‐ a reality check

(2019) Simone Fatichi et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Does Particulate Organic Matter Fraction Meet the Criteria for a Model Soil Organic Matter Pool?

(2019) Denis CURTIN et al.   PEDOSPHERE

What do we know about soil carbon destabilization?

(2019) Vanessa L Bailey et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Microbial and abiotic controls on mineral-associated organic matter in soil profiles along an ecosystem gradient

(2019) Robert Mikutta et al.   Scientific Reports

Quantifying the relationships between soil fraction mass, fraction carbon, and total soil carbon to assess mechanisms of physical protection

(2019) Alison E. King et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Selective preservation of pyrogenic carbon across soil organic matter fractions and its influence on calculations of carbon mean residence times

(2019) J.M. Lavallee et al.   GEODERMA

Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

(2018) Craig Rasmussen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

(2018) Andrea Jilling et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Distinct bioenergetic signatures in particulate versus mineral-associated soil organic matter

(2018) Elizabeth K. Williams et al.   GEODERMA

Tree mycorrhizal type predicts within-site variability in the storage and distribution of soil organic matter

(2018) Matthew E. Craig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing organic stocks in agricultural soils: Knowledge gaps and potential innovations

(2018) Claire Chenu et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils – A comprehensive method comparison

(2018) Christopher Poeplau et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root litter decomposition slows with soil depth

(2018) Caitlin E. Hicks Pries et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Continental-scale nitrogen pollution is shifting forest mycorrhizal associations and soil carbon stocks

(2018) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

(2018) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

(2018) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   GEODERMA

Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry

(2018) Noah W. Sokol 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

Nitrogen limitation of decomposition and decay: How can it occur?

(2017) Colin Averill et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microaggregates in soils

(2017) Kai Uwe Totsche et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Microbial utilization of mineral-associated nitrogen in soils

(2017) Stephanie Turner et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization

(2017) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Communications

Elevated moisture stimulates carbon loss from mineral soils by releasing protected organic matter

(2017) Wenjuan Huang et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

The C:N:P:S stoichiometry of soil organic matter

(2016) Edward Tipping et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

(2016) T. W. Crowther et al.   NATURE

Soil microarthropods support ecosystem productivity and soil C accrual: Evidence from a litter decomposition study in the tallgrass prairie

(2016) Jennifer L. Soong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Little effects on soil organic matter chemistry of density fractions after seven years of forest soil warming

(2016) Jörg Schnecker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A global analysis of soil acidification caused by nitrogen addition

(2015) Dashuan Tian et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Biochar stability in soil: meta-analysis of decomposition and priming effects

(2015) Jinyang Wang et al.   Global Change Biology Bioenergy

Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models

(2015) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

(2015) Michael J. Castellano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The contentious nature of soil organic matter

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   NATURE

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

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

Age and Thermal Stability of Particulate Organic Matter Fractions Indicate the Presence of Black Carbon in Soil

(2015) Jens Leifeld et al.   RADIOCARBON

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

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

(2014) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Identifying soil organic carbon fractions sensitive to agricultural management practices

(2014) Daniel Plaza-Bonilla et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Decomposition of particulate organic matter is more sensitive to temperature than the mineral associated organic matter

(2014) D.K. Benbi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Submicron structures provide preferential spots for carbon and nitrogen sequestration in soils

(2014) Cordula Vogel et al.   Nature Communications

Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Nature Communications

Microbe-driven turnover offsets mineral-mediated storage of soil carbon under elevated CO2

(2014) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   Nature Climate Change

Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Analysis of organic fractions as indicators of soil quality under natural and cultivated systems

(2013) Matias E. Duval et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Aggregate-associated soil organic matter as an ecosystem property and a measurement tool

(2013) Johan Six et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nutrient availability limits carbon sequestration in arable soils

(2013) Clive A. Kirkby et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Separation of light and heavy organic matter fractions in soil — Testing for proper density cut-off and dispersion level

(2012) C. Cerli et al.   GEODERMA

Linking temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition to its molecular structure, accessibility, and microbial physiology

(2012) Rota Wagai 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

Increases in the flux of carbon belowground stimulate nitrogen uptake and sustain the long-term enhancement of forest productivity under elevated CO2

(2011) John E. Drake et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Aggregate dynamics and associated soil organic matter contents as influenced by prolonged arable cropping in the South African Highveld

(2011) Ingo Lobe et al.   GEODERMA

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

(2011) Richard T. Conant et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Pyrogenic organic matter in soil: Its origin and occurrence, its chemistry and survival in soil environments

(2011) Heike Knicker   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Enhanced root exudation induces microbial feedbacks to N cycling in a pine forest under long-term CO2 fumigation

(2010) Richard P. Phillips et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Turnover of intra- and extra-aggregate organic matter at the silt-size scale

(2010) I. Virto et al.   GEODERMA

Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity

(2010) MARKUS KLEBER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Radiocarbon and Soil Carbon Dynamics

(2009) Susan Trumbore   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Sequential density fractionation across soils of contrasting mineralogy: evidence for both microbial- and mineral-controlled soil organic matter stabilization

(2009) Phillip Sollins et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Sources of plant-derived carbon and stability of organic matter in soil: implications for global change

(2009) SUSAN E. CROW et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Comparison of different soil organic matter fractionation methodologies: Evidences from ultrasensitive 14C measurements

(2009) Fabio Marzaioli et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Microaggregation and organic matter storage at the silt-size scale

(2008) I. Virto et al.   GEODERMA

Stabilization mechanisms of organic matter in four temperate soils: Development and application of a conceptual model

(2008) Margit von Lützow et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Organo-mineral associations in temperate soils: Integrating biology, mineralogy, and organic matter chemistry

(2008) Ingrid Kögel-Knabner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE