Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems

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

(2021) Chao Wang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Microbial metabolic response to winter warming stabilizes soil carbon

(2021) Jing Tian et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil microbial diversity–biomass relationships are driven by soil carbon content across global biomes

(2021) Felipe Bastida et al.   ISME Journal

Aridity and NPP constrain contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic carbon in the Qinghai-Tibet alpine grasslands

(2021) Xinying Zhang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

What are the products of enzymatic cleavage of organic N?

(2021) Charles Warren   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Interaction of land use history, earthworms, soil chemistry and tree species on soil carbon distribution in managed forests in Vermont, USA

(2021) Donald S. Ross et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms

(2021) Alix Vidal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The global distribution and environmental drivers of aboveground versus belowground plant biomass

(2021) Haozhi Ma et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

(2021) Baorong Wang et al.   CATENA

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

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

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

Nutrient addition reduces carbon sequestration in a Tibetan grassland soil: Disentangling microbial and physical controls

(2020) Ruyi Luo et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

A quantitative assessment of amino sugars in soil profiles

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

The vertical distribution and control of microbial necromass carbon in forest soils

(2020) Xiangyin Ni et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Litter-inhabiting fungi show high level of specialization towards biopolymers composing plant and fungal biomass

(2020) Camelia Algora Gallardo et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Divergent mineralization of hydrophilic and hydrophobic organic substrates and their priming effect in soils depending on their preferential utilization by bacteria and fungi

(2020) Shaohong Deng et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Long‐term active restoration of extremely degraded alpine grassland accelerated turnover and increased stability of soil carbon

(2020) Yanfu Bai et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Phosphorus addition decreases microbial residual contribution to soil organic carbon pool in a tropical coastal forest

(2020) Ye Yuan et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Preferential uptake of hydrophilic and hydrophobic compounds by bacteria and fungi in upland and paddy soils

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

Sticky dead microbes: Rapid abiotic retention of microbial necromass in soil

(2020) Kate M. Buckeridge et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

High temperatures enhance the microbial genetic potential to recycle C and N from necromass in high‐mountain soils

(2020) Johanna Donhauser et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global biogeography of fungal and bacterial biomass carbon in topsoil

(2020) Liyuan He et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Patterns and determinants of soil microbial residues from tropical to boreal forests

(2020) Guoping Chen 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 growth and carbon use efficiency in soil: Links to fungal-bacterial dominance, SOC-quality and stoichiometry

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

Interaction between tannins and fungal necromass stabilizes fungal residues in boreal forest soils

(2019) Bartosz Adamczyk et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

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

Manure over crop residues increases soil organic matter but decreases microbial necromass relative contribution in upland Ultisols: Results of a 27-year field experiment

(2019) Guiping Ye et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Long-term manure application increases soil organic matter and aggregation, and alters microbial community structure and keystone taxa

(2019) Yongxin Lin et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial spatial footprint as a driver of soil carbon stabilization

(2019) A. N. Kravchenko et al.   Nature Communications

Root diameter controls the accumulation of humic substances in decomposing root litter

(2019) Qun Liu et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

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

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

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

Effects of seven-year nitrogen and phosphorus additions on soil microbial community structures and residues in a tropical forest in Hainan Island, China

(2019) Suhui Ma 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

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

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

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

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

Agroforestry systems: Meta-analysis of soil carbon stocks, sequestration processes, and future potentials

(2018) Lingling Shi et al.   LAND DEGRADATION & DEVELOPMENT

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

(2018) Tian Ma et al.   Nature Communications

Dynamic contribution of microbial residues to soil organic matter accumulation influenced by maize straw mulching

(2018) Xiao Liu et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

Growth explains microbial carbon use efficiency across soils differing in land use and geology

(2018) Qing Zheng et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Glucose and ribose stabilization in soil: Convergence and divergence of carbon pathways assessed by position-specific labeling

(2018) Ezekiel K. Bore et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of plant-symbiotic relationships on the living soil microbial community and microbial necromass in a long-term agro-ecosystem

(2017) J. Schmidt et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

(2017) Shuai Shao 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

Fungal–bacterial dynamics and their contribution to terrigenous carbon turnover in relation to organic matter quality

(2016) Jenny Fabian et al.   ISME Journal

Microbial regulation of the soil carbon cycle: evidence from gene–enzyme relationships

(2016) Pankaj Trivedi et al.   ISME Journal

Response of soil microbial community to afforestation with pure and mixed species

(2016) Anna Gunina et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

High nitrogen deposition decreases the contribution of fungal residues to soil carbon pools in a tropical forest ecosystem

(2016) Wei Zhang 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

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

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

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

Microbial physiology and necromass regulate agricultural soil carbon accumulation

(2015) C.M. Kallenbach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fate of ectomycorrhizal fungal biomass in a soil bioreactor system and its contribution to soil organic matter formation

(2015) Michael Schweigert et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial residue indices down the soil profile after long-term addition of farmyard manure and mineral fertilizer to a sandy soil

(2014) André Sradnick et al.   GEODERMA

Accelerated microbial turnover but constant growth efficiency with warming in soil

(2014) Shannon B. Hagerty et al.   Nature Climate Change

Effect of land-use and elevation on microbial biomass and water extractable carbon in soils of Mt. Kilimanjaro ecosystems

(2013) Holger Pabst et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

(2013) Serita D. Frey 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

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

(2012) Thomas Schneider et al.   ISME Journal

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

(2012) Stefano Manzoni et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Cycling downwards – dissolved organic matter in soils

(2012) Klaus Kaiser 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

Effect of temperature on metabolic activity of intact microbial communities: Evidence for altered metabolic pathway activity but not for increased maintenance respiration and reduced carbon use efficiency

(2011) Paul Dijkstra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial uptake of low-molecular-weight organic substances out-competes sorption in soil

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

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

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

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

Comparing PLFA and amino sugars for microbial analysis in an Upper Michigan old growth forest

(2008) Chao Liang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Quantitative assessment of the fungal contribution to microbial tissue in soil

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