Forage Species Identity Shapes Soil Biota in a Temperate Agroecosystem

Meta-analysis shows positive effects of plant diversity on microbial biomass and respiration

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Mechanisms underlying limited soil carbon gains in perennial and cover‐cropped bioenergy systems revealed by stable isotopes

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Perennial grain crop roots and nitrogen management shape soil food webs and soil carbon dynamics

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Plant diversity enhances productivity and soil carbon storage

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

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The root of the matter: Linking root traits and soil organic matter stabilization processes

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

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Grass-Legume Mixtures for Improved Soil Health in Cultivated Agroecosystem

(2018) Dhruba Dhakal et al.   Sustainability

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

Living cover crops have immediate impacts on soil microbial community structure and function

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Perennial grain on a Midwest Alfisol shows no sign of early soil carbon gain

(2017) Christine D. Sprunger et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Evaluation of Alfalfa–Tall Fescue Mixtures across Multiple Environments

(2016) Benjamin F. Tracy et al.   CROP SCIENCE

Functional diversity in cover crop polycultures increases multifunctionality of an agricultural system

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Functional composition of plant communities determines the spatial and temporal stability of soil microbial properties in a long-term plant diversity experiment

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Comparison of Permanganate-Oxidizable Carbon and Mineralizable Carbon for Assessment of Organic Matter Stabilization and Mineralization

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Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

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Root carbon inputs under moderately diverse sward and conventional ryegrass-clover pasture: implications for soil carbon sequestration

(2015) Samuel Rae McNally et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Microbial physiology and necromass regulate agricultural soil carbon accumulation

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Farming for Ecosystem Services: An Ecological Approach to Production Agriculture

(2014) G. Philip Robertson et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Plant species richness promotes soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in grasslands without legumes

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Biotic and Abiotic Properties Mediating Plant Diversity Effects on Soil Microbial Communities in an Experimental Grassland

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Agronomic and environmental impacts of pasture–crop rotations in temperate North and South America

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Optimizing ecosystem function by manipulating pasture community composition

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Empirical evidence that soil carbon formation from plant inputs is positively related to microbial growth

(2013) Mark A. Bradford et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Grass–Legume Mixtures Suppress Weeds during Establishment Better than Monocultures

(2012) Matt A. Sanderson et al.   AGRONOMY JOURNAL

Complementarity in root architecture for nutrient uptake in ancient maize/bean and maize/bean/squash polycultures

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High throughput phospholipid fatty acid analysis of soils

(2012) Jeffrey S. Buyer et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Root depth distribution and the diversity–productivity relationship in a long-term grassland experiment

(2012) Kevin E. Mueller et al.   ECOLOGY

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity loss as a major driver of ecosystem change

(2012) David U. Hooper et al.   NATURE

Permanganate Oxidizable Carbon Reflects a Processed Soil Fraction that is Sensitive to Management

(2012) Steven W. Culman et al.   SOIL SCIENCE SOCIETY OF AMERICA JOURNAL

The functional role of producer diversity in ecosystems

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(2011) Jonathan A. Foley et al.   NATURE

Diverse perennial crop mixtures sustain higher productivity over time based on ecological complementarity

(2011) Valentín D. Picasso et al.   RENEWABLE AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS

Effect of individual grass species and grass species mixtures on soil quality as related to root biomass and grass yield

(2010) Nick van Eekeren et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

(2010) Christoph Scherber et al.   NATURE

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

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

A mixture of grass and clover combines the positive effects of both plant species on selected soil biota

(2009) Nick van Eekeren et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Short-term plant species impact on microbial community structure in soils with long-term agricultural history

(2009) Jude Maul et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Using Phylogenetic, Functional and Trait Diversity to Understand Patterns of Plant Community Productivity

(2009) Marc W. Cadotte et al.   PLoS One

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity effects and transgressive overyielding

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