Soil texture affects the coupling of litter decomposition and soil organic matter formation

Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter

(2021) Gerrit Angst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil textural heterogeneity impacts bacterial but not fungal diversity

(2020) Fiona M. Seaton et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Climate, carbon content, and soil texture control the independent formation and persistence of particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in soil

(2020) Michelle L. Haddix et al.   GEODERMA

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Soil microbial diversity and composition: Links to soil texture and associated properties

(2020) Qing Xia et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial diversity drives carbon use efficiency in a model soil

(2020) Luiz A. Domeignoz-Horta et al.   Nature Communications

Coarse mineral-associated organic matter is a pivotal fraction for SOM formation and is sensitive to the quality of organic inputs

(2020) Marie-Élise Samson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Testing the dependence of microbial growth and carbon use efficiency on nitrogen availability, pH, and organic matter quality

(2019) Alex Silva-Sánchez et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

pH and exchangeable aluminum are major regulators of microbial energy flow and carbon use efficiency in soil microbial communities

(2019) Davey L. Jones et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil organic matter is stabilized by organo-mineral associations through two key processes: The role of the carbon to nitrogen ratio

(2019) Peter M. Kopittke et al.   GEODERMA

Soil microaggregate size composition and organic matter distribution as affected by clay content

(2019) Steffen A. Schweizer et al.   GEODERMA

Mechanisms and ecological implications of the movement of bacteria in soil

(2018) Pu Yang et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Soil organic matter formation as affected by eucalypt litter biochemistry — Evidence from an incubation study

(2018) Luís F.J. Almeida et al.   GEODERMA

Biochar modulates heavy metal toxicity and improves microbial carbon use efficiency in soil

(2018) Yilu Xu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Tree species effects are amplified by clay content in acidic soils

(2018) Gorik Verstraeten et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant litter quality affects the accumulation rate, composition, and stability of mineral-associated soil organic matter

(2018) S. Carolina Córdova et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Land use driven change in soil pH affects microbial carbon cycling processes

(2018) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Nature Communications

Nitrogen-rich microbial products provide new organo-mineral associations for the stabilization of soil organic matter

(2017) Peter M. Kopittke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Retention of dead standing plant biomass (marcescence) increases subsequent litter decomposition in the soil organic layer

(2017) Šárka Angst et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil Carbon Fractions from an Alluvial Soil Texture Gradient in North Carolina

(2017) Leonardo Deiss et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

Climate-smart soils

(2016) Keith Paustian et al.   NATURE

Monitoring changes in the structure and properties of humic substances following ozonation using UV–Vis, FTIR and 1 H NMR techniques

(2016) Francisco J. Rodríguez et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Substrate quality influences organic matter accumulation in the soil silt and clay fraction

(2016) K.T. Cyle et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial carbon use efficiency and biomass turnover times depending on soil depth – Implications for carbon cycling

(2016) Marie Spohn et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2015) Michael J. Castellano 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

High clay content accelerates the decomposition of fresh organic matter in artificial soils

(2014) Hui Wei et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Infrared Attenuated Total Reflectance Spectroscopy: An Innovative Strategy for Analyzing Mineral Components in Energy Relevant Systems

(2014) Christian Menno Müller et al.   Scientific Reports

Altered precipitation regime affects the function and composition of soil microbial communities on multiple time scales

(2013) L. H. Zeglin et al.   ECOLOGY

Temporal variation in surface and subsoil abundance and function of the soil microbial community in an arable soil

(2013) Susanne Kramer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Bioavailability and isotopic composition of CO2 released from incubated soil organic matter fractions

(2013) Carsten W. Mueller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial abundance and composition influence litter decomposition response to environmental change

(2012) Steven D. Allison et al.   ECOLOGY

Changes in some physical properties of soils in the chronosequence of self-overgrown dumps of the Sokolov quarry-dump complex, Czechia

(2012) V. Kuráž et al.   EURASIAN SOIL SCIENCE

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

Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Can laboratory toxicity tests explain the pattern of field communities of algae, plants, and invertebrates along a toxicity gradient of post-mining sites?

(2011) Jan Frouz et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Transport of Carbon and Nitrogen Between Litter and Soil Organic Matter in a Northern Hardwood Forest

(2011) Timothy J. Fahey et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Evolutionary ecology of plant-microbe interactions: soil microbial structure alters selection on plant traits

(2011) Jennifer A. Lau et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Litter decomposition: what controls it and how can we alter it to sequester more carbon in forest soils?

(2010) Cindy E. Prescott   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Considering fungal:bacterial dominance in soils – Methods, controls, and ecosystem implications

(2010) Michael S. Strickland et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Measurement of soil characteristics for forensic applications

(2010) Lorna A. Dawson et al.   SURFACE AND INTERFACE ANALYSIS

Initial differentiation of vertical soil organic matter distribution and composition under juvenile beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) trees

(2009) Carsten W. Mueller et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?

(2008) Bernd Marschner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Simultaneous Preservation of Soil Structural Properties and Phospholipid Proflles: A Comparison ofThree Drying Techniques

(2008) L.J. DEACON et al.   PEDOSPHERE

FTIR spectroscopy can be used as a screening tool for organic matter quality in regenerating cutover peatlands

(2007) Rebekka R.E. Artz et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Transient elevation of carbon dioxide modifies the microbial community composition in a semi-arid grassland

(2007) Ellen Kandeler et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY