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

Influence of earthworms on apolar lipid features in soils after 1 year of incubation

(2020) Thanh Thuy Nguyen Tu et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Global meta-analyses show that conservation tillage practices promote soil fungal and bacterial biomass

(2020) Huaihai Chen et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

A quantitative assessment of amino sugars in soil profiles

(2020) Xiangyin Ni et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

How do earthworms affect organic matter decomposition in the presence of clay-sized minerals?

(2020) J. Barthod et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Preferential degradation of leaf- vs. root-derived organic carbon in earthworm-affected soil

(2020) Gerrit Angst et al.   GEODERMA

Earthworm mucus contributes to the formation of organo-mineral associations in soil

(2020) Tom Guhra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Molecular trade-offs in soil organic carbon composition at continental scale

(2020) Steven J. Hall et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry

(2019) Margarida Soares et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Contrasting contribution of fungal and bacterial residues to organic carbon accumulation in paddy soils across eastern China

(2019) Yinhang Xia et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Enrichment of Lignin-Derived Carbon in Mineral-Associated Soil Organic Matter

(2019) Wenjuan Huang et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Fungi and bacteria respond differently to changing environmental conditions within a soil profile

(2019) Sebastian Preusser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Global variation of soil microbial carbon-use efficiency in relation to growth temperature and substrate supply

(2019) Yang Qiao et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2019) Robert Mikutta et al.   Scientific Reports

Conversion of grassland into cropland affects microbial residue carbon retention in both surface and subsurface soils of a temperate agroecosystem

(2019) Xueli Ding et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Mineralogy dictates the initial mechanism of microbial necromass association

(2019) Courtney A. Creamer et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Warming increases microbial residue contribution to soil organic carbon in an alpine meadow

(2019) Xueli Ding et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil chemistry turned upside down: a meta‐analysis of invasive earthworm effects on soil chemical properties

(2019) Olga Ferlian et al.   ECOLOGY

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

Amino sugars as specific indices for fungal and bacterial residues in soil

(2018) Rainer Georg Joergensen   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

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

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

Factors controlling the variability of organic matter in the top- and subsoil of a sandy Dystric Cambisol under beech forest

(2018) Stefanie Heinze et al.   GEODERMA

Effects of soil macro- and mesofauna on litter decomposition and soil organic matter stabilization

(2018) Jan Frouz   GEODERMA

Plant versus microbial signature in densimetric fractions of Mediterranean forest soils: a study by thermochemolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry

(2018) Pere Rovira et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Responses of microbial residues to simulated climate change in a semiarid grassland

(2018) Pengshuai Shao et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Fate of carbohydrates and lignin in north-east Siberian permafrost soils

(2018) Thao Thi Dao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nematodes and microbial community affect the sizes and turnover rates of organic carbon pools in soil aggregates

(2018) Yuji Jiang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Abundance of lipids in differently sized aggregates depends on their chemical composition

(2018) Gerrit Angst et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Protection of extractable lipid and lignin: Differences in undisturbed and cultivated soils detected by molecular markers

(2018) Fangfang Li et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Divergent accumulation of microbial necromass and plant lignin components in grassland soils

(2018) Tian Ma et al.   Nature Communications

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

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

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

The ratio of Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacterial PLFA markers as an indicator of carbon availability in organic soils

(2018) Nicolas Fanin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Spatial distribution of microbial biomass and residues across soil aggregate fractions at different elevations in the Central Austrian Alps

(2018) Rajasekaran Murugan et al.   GEODERMA

Stabilization of soil organic matter by earthworms is connected with physical protection rather than with chemical changes of organic matter

(2017) Šárka Angst et al.   GEODERMA

Plant litter chemistry alters the content and composition of organic carbon associated with soil mineral and aggregate fractions in invaded ecosystems

(2017) Mioko Tamura et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Invasive earthworms erode soil biodiversity: A meta-analysis

(2017) Olga Ferlian et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

An optical method for carbon dioxide isotopes and mole fractions in small gas samples: Tracing microbial respiration from soil, litter, and lignin

(2017) Steven J. Hall et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Does grassland introduction into cropping cycles affect carbon dynamics through changes of allocation of soil organic matter within aggregate fractions?

(2017) M. Panettieri et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Can earthworms simultaneously enhance decomposition and stabilization of plant residue carbon?

(2017) Ingrid M. Lubbers et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Developing a molecular picture of soil organic matter–mineral interactions by quantifying organo–mineral binding

(2017) C. J. Newcomb et al.   Nature Communications

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Microbial biomass, fungal and bacterial residues, and their relationships to the soil organic matter C/N/P/S ratios

(2016) Khalid Saifullah Khan et al.   GEODERMA

Dual, differential isotope labeling shows the preferential movement of labile plant constituents into mineral-bonded soil organic matter

(2016) Michelle L. Haddix et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Enhanced extractability of cutin- and suberin-derived organic matter with demineralization implies physical protection over chemical recalcitrance in soil

(2016) Lisa H. Lin et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Driving forces of soil bacterial community structure, diversity, and function in temperate grasslands and forests

(2016) Kristin Kaiser et al.   Scientific Reports

Tracing the sources and spatial distribution of organic carbon in subsoils using a multi-biomarker approach

(2016) Gerrit Angst et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of litter traits, soil biota, and soil chemistry on soil carbon stocks at a common garden with 14 tree species

(2015) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2015) Oliva Pisani et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Abundance and composition of free and aggregate-occluded carbohydrates and lignin in two forest soils as affected by wildfires of different severity

(2015) Giovanni Mastrolonardo et al.   GEODERMA

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

Amino sugars reflect microbial residues as affected by clay mineral composition of artificial soils

(2015) Geertje J. Pronk et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Higher rates of manure application lead to greater accumulation of both fungal and bacterial residues in macroaggregates of a clay soil

(2015) Xueli Ding et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial contribution to SOM quantity and quality in density fractions of temperate arable soils

(2015) Marie Ludwig et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nanoscale evidence of contrasted processes for root-derived organic matter stabilization by mineral interactions depending on soil depth

(2015) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Sugars in soil and sweets for microorganisms: Review of origin, content, composition and fate

(2015) Anna Gunina et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Direct and indirect effects of climate change on soil microbial and soil microbial-plant interactions: What lies ahead?

(2015) Aimée T. Classen et al.   Ecosphere

Microbial lipid and amino sugar responses to long-term simulated global environmental changes in a California annual grassland

(2015) Chao Liang et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Selective stabilization of aliphatic organic carbon by iron oxide

(2015) Dinesh Adhikari et al.   Scientific Reports

Impact of Exotic Earthworms on Organic Carbon Sorption on Mineral Surfaces and Soil Carbon Inventories in a Northern Hardwood Forest

(2014) Amy Lyttle et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Reconstitution of cutin monomers on smectite surfaces: adsorption and esterification

(2014) Yaniv Olshansky et al.   GEODERMA

Accumulation of aliphatic compounds in soil with increasing mean annual temperature

(2014) Oliva Pisani et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Distribution of cutin and suberin biomarkers under forest trees with different root systems

(2014) Sandra Spielvogel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

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

Soil aggregation and the stabilization of organic carbon as affected by erosion and deposition

(2014) Xiang Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nitrogen input quality changes the biochemical composition of soil organic matter stabilized in the fine fraction: a long-term study

(2013) A. W. Gillespie 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

Effects of long-term fertilization on contents and distribution of microbial residues within aggregate structures of a clay soil

(2013) Xueli Ding et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Molecular Trickery in Soil Organic Matter: Hidden Lignin

(2013) Peter J. Hernes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Do tree species influence soil carbon stocks in temperate and boreal forests?

(2013) Lars Vesterdal et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Nitrogen deposition promotes the production of new fungal residues but retards the decomposition of old residues in forest soil fractions

(2013) Marco Griepentrog et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Molecular level analysis of long term vegetative shifts and relationships to soil organic matter composition

(2013) Oliva Pisani et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Seasonal differences in tree species' influence on soil microbial communities

(2013) Carolin Thoms et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

What controls the concentration of various aliphatic lipids in soil?

(2013) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Controls on wood and leaf litter incorporation into soil fractions in forests at different successional stages

(2013) Yini Ma et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Greenhouse-gas emissions from soils increased by earthworms

(2013) Ingrid M. Lubbers et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

Differentiating temperate tree species and their organs using lipid biomarkers in leaves, roots and soil

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Biochemical changes across a carbon saturation gradient: Lignin, cutin, and suberin decomposition and stabilization in fractionated carbon pools

(2012) Elizabeth M. Carrington et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Organic matter of subsoil horizons under broadleaved forest: Highly processed or labile and plant-derived?

(2012) Karen Vancampenhout et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Contrasting composition of free and mineral-bound organic matter in top- and subsoil horizons of Andosols

(2011) C. Rumpel et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Endogeic earthworms shape bacterial functional communities and affect organic matter mineralization in a tropical soil

(2011) Laetitia Bernard et al.   ISME Journal

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Association of specific organic matter compounds in size fractions of soils under different environmental controls

(2011) Joyce S. Clemente et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Absence of oxygen isotope fractionation/exchange of (hemi-) cellulose derived sugars during litter decomposition

(2011) Michael Zech et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Microbial mediation of carbon-cycle feedbacks to climate warming

(2011) Jizhong Zhou et al.   Nature Climate Change

Enhancement of chlorophenol sorption on soil by geophagous earthworms (Metaphire guillelmi)

(2010) Jun Shan et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Adsorption And Oxidative Transformation Of Phenolic Acids By Fe(III)-Montmorillonite

(2010) Tamara Polubesova et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Towards understanding of carbon stocks and stabilization in volcanic ash soils in natural Andean ecosystems of northern Ecuador

(2010) F. H. Tonneijck et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Source determination of lipids in bulk soil and soil density fractions after four years of wheat cropping

(2010) G.L.B. Wiesenberg et al.   GEODERMA

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

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Fate of lignins in soils: A review

(2010) Mathieu Thevenot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

How do earthworms influence organic matter quantity and quality in tropical soils?

(2010) Hanh Nguyen Hong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

A global meta-analysis of soil exchangeable cations, pH, carbon, and nitrogen with afforestation

(2009) Sean T. Berthrong et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Global patterns in belowground communities

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High turnover of fungal hyphae in incubation experiments

(2009) Franciska T. De Vries et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

The occurrence of short chain n-alkanes with an even over odd predominance in higher plants and soils

(2009) Thomas K. Kuhn et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

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

Non-cellulosic neutral sugar contribution to mineral associated organic matter in top- and subsoil horizons of two acid forest soils

(2009) C. Rumpel et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Vertical distribution and pools of microbial residues in tropical forest soils formed from distinct parent materials

(2008) Lindsey K. Moritz et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Soil organic matter stabilization in acidic forest soils is preferential and soil type-specific

(2008) S. Spielvogel et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Preferential sequestration of microbial carbon in subsoils of a glacial-landscape toposequence, Dane County, WI, USA

(2008) Chao Liang et al.   GEODERMA

Comparison of the chemical alteration trajectory ofLiriodendron tulipifera L.leaf litter among forests with different earthworm abundance

(2008) Timothy R. Filley et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

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

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

Increased cuticular carbon sequestration and lignin oxidation in response to soil warming

(2008) Xiaojuan Feng et al.   Nature Geoscience

Adsorption and Polymerization of Amino Acids on Mineral Surfaces: A Review

(2008) Jean-François Lambert   ORIGINS OF LIFE AND EVOLUTION OF BIOSPHERES

Molecular C dynamics downstream: The biochemical decomposition sequence and its impact on soil organic matter structure and function

(2008) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Quantitative assessment of the fungal contribution to microbial tissue in soil

(2008) R JOERGENSEN et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stabilised carbon in subsoil horizons is located in spatially distinct parts of the soil profile

(2008) A. Chabbi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon and nitrogen in forest floor and mineral soil under six common European tree species

(2007) Lars Vesterdal et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT