Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence

Plant rhizodeposition: A key factor for soil organic matter formation in stable fractions

(2021) Sebastián H. Villarino et al.   Science Advances

Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils

(2021) Christopher Poeplau et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

High carbon losses from oxygen‐limited soils challenge biogeochemical theory and model assumptions

(2021) Wenjuan Huang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil organic carbon response to global environmental change depends on its distribution between mineral-associated and particulate organic matter: A meta-analysis

(2021) Katherine S. Rocci et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

FungalRoot: global online database of plant mycorrhizal associations

(2020) Nadejda A. Soudzilovskaia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The age distribution of global soil carbon inferred from radiocarbon measurements

(2020) Zheng Shi et al.   Nature Geoscience

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Warming‐induced global soil carbon loss attenuated by downward carbon movement

(2020) Zhongkui Luo et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Combination of energy limitation and sorption capacity explains 14C depth gradients

(2020) Bernhard Ahrens et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Land Use and Land Cover Affect the Depth Distribution of Soil Carbon: Insights From a Large Database of Soil Profiles

(2020) Benjamin N. Sulman et al.   Frontiers in Environmental Science

Impacts of an invasive grass on soil organic matter pools vary across a tree-mycorrhizal gradient

(2019) Matthew E. Craig et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

Constraining Carbon and Nutrient Flows in Soil With Ecological Stoichiometry

(2019) Robert W. Buchkowski et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

(2018) Craig Rasmussen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Temperature response of permafrost soil carbon is attenuated by mineral protection

(2018) Norman Gentsch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Dynamic, Intermediate Soil Carbon Pools May Drive Future Responsiveness to Environmental Change

(2018) Susan E. Crow et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

The optimum temperature of soil microbial respiration: Patterns and controls

(2018) Yuan Liu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Anoxic microsites in upland soils dominantly controlled by clay content

(2018) Marco Keiluweit et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Root litter decomposition slows with soil depth

(2018) Caitlin E. Hicks Pries et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Model structures amplify uncertainty in predicted soil carbon responses to climate change

(2018) Zheng Shi et al.   Nature Communications

Improving understanding of soil organic matter dynamics by triangulating theories, measurements, and models

(2018) Joseph C. Blankinship et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Predicting soil carbon loss with warming

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Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth

(2018) Jérôme Balesdent et al.   NATURE

Soil Organic Matter Persistence as a Stochastic Process: Age and Transit Time Distributions of Carbon in Soils

(2018) Carlos A. Sierra et al.   GLOBAL BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLES

Sensitivity of labile carbon fractions to tillage and organic matter management and their potential as comprehensive soil quality indicators across pedoclimatic conditions in Europe

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Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use

(2017) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The whole-soil carbon flux in response to warming

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

Water balance creates a threshold in soil pH at the global scale

(2016) E. W. Slessarev et al.   NATURE

Radiocarbon constraints imply reduced carbon uptake by soils during the 21st century

(2016) Y. He et al.   SCIENCE

The role of microarthropods in emerging models of soil organic matter

(2016) Jennifer L. Soong et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Methodological uncertainty in estimating carbon turnover times of soil fractions

(2016) Wenting Feng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Managing uncertainty in soil carbon feedbacks to climate change

(2016) Mark A. Bradford et al.   Nature Climate Change

Soil Fungal:Bacterial Ratios Are Linked to Altered Carbon Cycling

(2016) Ashish A. Malik et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Long-term controls on soil organic carbon with depth and time: A case study from the Cowlitz River Chronosequence, WA USA

(2015) Corey R. Lawrence et al.   GEODERMA

Deep soil carbon dynamics are driven more by soil type than by climate: a worldwide meta-analysis of radiocarbon profiles

(2015) Jordane A. Mathieu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate

(2015) Sebastian Doetterl et al.   Nature Geoscience

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Factors affecting the molecular structure and mean residence time of occluded organics in a lithosequence of soils under ponderosa pine

(2014) Katherine Heckman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Warming-related increases in soil CO2 efflux are explained by increased below-ground carbon flux

(2014) Christian P. Giardina et al.   Nature Climate Change

Uncertainties in CMIP5 Climate Projections due to Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

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Atmospheric Radiocarbon for the Period 1950–2010

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IntCal13 and Marine13 Radiocarbon Age Calibration Curves 0–50,000 Years cal BP

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Atmospheric Δ14CO2 trend in Western European background air from 2000 to 2012

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Collinearity: a review of methods to deal with it and a simulation study evaluating their performance

(2012) Carsten F. Dormann et al.   ECOGRAPHY

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

Using 50years of soil radiocarbon data to identify optimal approaches for estimating soil carbon residence times

(2012) W.T. Baisden et al.   NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION B-BEAM INTERACTIONS WITH MATERIALS AND ATOMS

Influence of biological aggregating agents associated with microbial population on soil aggregate stability

(2011) Jia Tang et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Carbon delivery to deep mineral horizons in Hawaiian rain forest soils

(2011) Erika Marin-Spiotta et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Microbial communities acclimate to recurring changes in soil redox potential status

(2010) Kristen M. DeAngelis et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Radiocarbon and Soil Carbon Dynamics

(2009) Susan Trumbore   Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Nature of the “occluded” low-density fraction in soil organic matter studies: A critical review

(2009) Rota Wagai et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Plant species traits are the predominant control on litter decomposition rates within biomes worldwide

(2008) William K. Cornwell et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil organic matter dynamics during 80 years of reforestation of tropical pastures

(2008) ERIKA MARIN-SPIOTTA et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Clay minerals, oxyhydroxide formation, element leaching and humus development in volcanic soils

(2007) Markus Egli et al.   GEODERMA

Chemical and mineral control of soil carbon turnover in abandoned tropical pastures

(2007) Erika Marín-Spiotta et al.   GEODERMA