The accumulation of microbial necromass carbon from litter to mineral soil and its contribution to soil organic carbon sequestration

Microbial necromass formation, enzyme activities and community structure in two alpine elevation gradients with different bedrock types

(2021) Parag Bhople et al.   GEODERMA

Large‐scale importance of microbial carbon use efficiency and necromass to soil organic carbon

(2021) Chao Wang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Priming mechanisms providing plants and microbes access to mineral-associated organic matter

(2021) Andrea Jilling et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

(2020) Jun Cui et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Rhizodeposition mediates the effect of nitrogen and phosphorous availability on microbial carbon use efficiency and turnover rate

(2020) Bahareh Bicharanloo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial carbon use efficiency, biomass turnover, and necromass accumulation in paddy soil depending on fertilization

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

A quantitative assessment of amino sugars in soil profiles

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

Microorganisms and nutrient stoichiometry as mediators of soil organic matter dynamics

(2020) Elizabeth C. Coonan et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Dynamics of microbial residues control the responses of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to N addition in two temperate forests

(2020) Jungang Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

N addition increased microbial residual carbon by altering soil P availability and microbial composition in a subtropical Castanopsis forest

(2020) Yuexin Fan et al.   GEODERMA

Metagenomics and stable isotope probing reveal the complementary contribution of fungal and bacterial communities in the recycling of dead biomass in forest soil

(2020) Rubén López-Mondéjar et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Coupling the resource stoichiometry and microbial biomass turnover to predict nutrient mineralization and immobilization in soil

(2020) Petr Čapek et al.   GEODERMA

Tradeoffs among microbial life history strategies influence the fate of microbial residues in subtropical forest soils

(2020) Pengshuai Shao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial C:N:P stoichiometry and turnover depend on nutrients availability in soil: A 14C, 15N and 33P triple labelling study

(2019) Jie Chen et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Physical, biochemical, and microbial controls on amino sugar accumulation in soils under long-term cover cropping and no-tillage farming

(2019) Lidong Li et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Increased microbial growth, biomass and turnover drive soil organic carbon accumulation at higher plant diversity

(2019) Judith Prommer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Persistence of dissolved organic matter explained by molecular changes during its passage through soil

(2019) Vanessa-Nina Roth et al.   Nature Geoscience

Vegetation biomass and soil moisture coregulate bacterial community succession under altered precipitation regimes in a desert steppe in northwestern China

(2019) Xiaofan Na et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stoichiometric controls of soil carbon and nitrogen cycling after long-term nitrogen and phosphorus addition in a mesic grassland in South Africa

(2019) Per-Marten Schleuss et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Using soil aggregate stability and erodibility to evaluate the sustainability of large-scale afforestation of Robinia pseudoacacia and Caragana korshinskii in the Loess Plateau

(2019) Baorong Wang et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Variation of microbial residue contribution to soil organic carbon sequestration following land use change in a subtropical karst region

(2019) Yong Huang et al.   GEODERMA

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

Direct measurement of the in situ decomposition of microbial-derived soil organic matter

(2019) Yuntao Hu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Seasonal changes of soil microbial C, N, P and associated nutrient dynamics in a semiarid grassland of north China

(2018) Hao Chen et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

(2018) Rainer Georg Joergensen   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Decomposer food web in a deciduous forest shows high share of generalist microorganisms and importance of microbial biomass recycling

(2018) Ruben López-Mondéjar et al.   ISME Journal

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

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

(2018) Tian Ma 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

Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   Nature Geoscience

Viruses in soil: Nano-scale undead drivers of microbial life, biogeochemical turnover and ecosystem functions

(2018) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Changes in nutrient stoichiometry, elemental homeostasis and growth rate of aquatic litter-associated fungi in response to inorganic nutrient supply

(2017) Vladislav Gulis et al.   ISME Journal

The whole-soil carbon flux in response to warming

(2017) Caitlin E. Hicks Pries et al.   SCIENCE

Linkage of microbial residue dynamics with soil organic carbon accumulation during subtropical forest succession

(2017) Shuai Shao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial biomass phosphorus and C/N/P stoichiometry in forest floor and A horizons as affected by tree species

(2017) Dan Paul Zederer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Parent material and conifer biome influence microbial residue accumulation in forest soils

(2017) Xueli Ding et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Bacterial and fungal growth on different plant litter in Mediterranean soils: Effects of C/N ratio and soil pH

(2016) F. Grosso et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

Direct evidence for microbial-derived soil organic matter formation and its ecophysiological controls

(2016) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Nature Communications

Soil microbial community structure and function are significantly affected by long-term organic and mineral fertilization regimes in the North China Plain

(2015) Juan Li et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant–microbial–soil organic matter transformations

(2015) Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

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

Water addition, evaporation and water holding capacity of poultry litter

(2015) Mark W. Dunlop et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Microbial community dynamics alleviate stoichiometric constraints during litter decay

(2014) Christina Kaiser et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

An experimental test of the hypothesis of non-homeostatic consumer stoichiometry in a plant litter-microbe system

(2013) Nicolas Fanin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

Who is who in litter decomposition? Metaproteomics reveals major microbial players and their biogeochemical functions

(2012) Thomas Schneider et al.   ISME Journal

Quality of soluble organic C, N, and P produced by different types and species of litter: Root litter versus leaf litter

(2012) Shauna M. Uselman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Kinetics of amino sugar formation from organic residues of different quality

(2012) Zhen Bai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?

(2010) Markus Kleber   Environmental Chemistry

To be or not to be what you eat: regulation of stoichiometric homeostasis among autotrophs and heterotrophs

(2010) Jonas Persson et al.   OIKOS

Dynamics of soil amino sugar pools during decomposition processes of corn residues as affected by inorganic N addition

(2009) Xueli Ding et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

The Global Stoichiometry of Litter Nitrogen Mineralization

(2008) S. Manzoni et al.   SCIENCE