Mineral stabilization of soil carbon is suppressed by live roots, outweighing influences from litter quality or quantity

Soil organic carbon is not just for soil scientists: measurement recommendations for diverse practitioners

(2021) S.A. Billings et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Competing Processes Drive the Resistance of Soil Carbon to Alterations in Organic Inputs

(2021) Derek Pierson et al.   Frontiers in Environmental Science

Dissolved organic carbon production and flux under long-term litter manipulations in a Pacific Northwest old-growth forest

(2020) Lucas R. Evans et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Sources of soil carbon loss during soil density fractionation: Laboratory loss or seasonally variable soluble pools?

(2020) Ester Helbling et al.   GEODERMA

What do we know about soil carbon destabilization?

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

The landscape of soil carbon data: Emerging questions, synergies and databases

(2019) Avni Malhotra et al.   Progress in Physical Geography-Earth and Environment

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

(2019) Jocelyn M. Lavallee et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

(2019) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Climate change effects on plant-soil feedbacks and consequences for biodiversity and functioning of terrestrial ecosystems

(2019) Francisco I. Pugnaire et al.   Science Advances

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

(2018) Andrea Jilling et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The detrital input and removal treatment (DIRT) network: Insights into soil carbon stabilization

(2018) Kate Lajtha et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Changes in litter chemistry associated with global change-driven forest succession resulted in time-decoupled responses of soil carbon and nitrogen cycles

(2018) María José Fernández-Alonso 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

Multiple models and experiments underscore large uncertainty in soil carbon dynamics

(2018) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Carbon cycle confidence and uncertainty: Exploring variation among soil biogeochemical models

(2017) William R. Wieder et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Fresh carbon input differentially impacts soil carbon decomposition across natural and managed systems

(2015) Zhongkui Luo et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil organic carbon across scales

(2015) Sharon M. O'Rourke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Rhizosphere priming can promote mobilisation of N-rich compounds from soil organic matter

(2015) Conor J. Murphy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Forest soil carbon is threatened by intensive biomass harvesting

(2015) David L. Achat et al.   Scientific Reports

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

Increased belowground carbon inputs and warming promote loss of soil organic carbon through complementary microbial responses

(2014) Francesca M. Hopkins et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Long-term carbon storage through retention of dissolved aromatic acids by reactive particles in soil

(2012) Marc G. Kramer 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

Light and Heavy Fractions of Soil Organic Matter in Response to Climate Warming and Increased Precipitation in a Temperate Steppe

(2012) Bing Song et al.   PLoS One

Evidence that stable C is as vulnerable to priming effect as is more labile C in soil

(2012) Bertrand Guenet et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Ecological Lessons from Free-Air CO2 Enrichment (FACE) Experiments

(2011) Richard J. Norby et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Transfer of litter-derived N to soil mineral–organic associations: Evidence from decadal 15N tracer experiments

(2011) Pierre-Joseph Hatton et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Soil carbon pools, plant biomarkers and mean carbon residence time after afforestation of grassland with three tree species

(2011) Zhiqun Huang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

C and N in soil organic matter density fractions under elevated atmospheric CO2: Turnover vs. stabilization

(2010) Maxim Dorodnikov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Contamination effects on soil density fractions from high N or C content sodium polytungstate

(2008) Marc G. Kramer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY