Climatic Controls on Soil Carbon Accumulation and Loss in a Dryland Ecosystems

Contrasting mechanisms underlie short‐ and longer‐term soil respiration responses to experimental warming in a dryland ecosystem

(2020) Marina Dacal et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Increasing microbial carbon use efficiency with warming predicts soil heterotrophic respiration globally

(2019) Jian‐Sheng Ye et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global ecological predictors of the soil priming effect

(2019) Felipe Bastida et al.   Nature Communications

Minerals in the rhizosphere: overlooked mediators of soil nitrogen availability to plants and microbes

(2018) Andrea Jilling et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Climatic Sensitivity of Dryland Soil CO2 Fluxes Differs Dramatically with Biological Soil Crust Successional State

(2018) Colin L. Tucker et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Pathways regulating decreased soil respiration with warming in a biocrust-dominated dryland

(2018) Pablo García-Palacios et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Life in Dry Soils: Effects of Drought on Soil Microbial Communities and Processes

(2018) Joshua P. Schimel   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Effects of altered dry season length and plant inputs on soluble soil carbon

(2018) Peter M. Homyak et al.   ECOLOGY

Reduced carbon use efficiency and increased microbial turnover with soil warming

(2018) Jianwei Li et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Future Global Soil Respiration Rates Will Swell Despite Regional Decreases in Temperature Sensitivity Caused by Rising Temperature

(2018) Jinshi Jian et al.   Earths Future

Biological soil crusts: diminutive communities of potential global importance

(2017) Scott Ferrenberg et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

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

CO2 exchange and evapotranspiration across dryland ecosystems of southwestern North America

(2017) Joel A. Biederman et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics throughout the summer drought in a California annual grassland

(2017) Sean M. Schaeffer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Origins, roles and fate of organic acids in soils: A review

(2017) R. Adeleke et al.   SOUTH AFRICAN JOURNAL OF BOTANY

Accounting for photodegradation dramatically improves prediction of carbon losses in dryland systems

(2017) E. Carol Adair et al.   Ecosphere

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Rain-induced changes in soil CO2 flux and microbial community composition in a tropical forest of China

(2017) Qi Deng et al.   Scientific Reports

Low soil moisture during hot periods drives apparent negative temperature sensitivity of soil respiration in a dryland ecosystem: a multi-model comparison

(2016) Colin L. Tucker et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Unraveling the mechanisms underlying pulse dynamics of soil respiration in tropical dry forests

(2016) Bonnie G Waring et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Limits to soil carbon stability; Deep, ancient soil carbon decomposition stimulated by new labile organic inputs

(2016) Blanca Bernal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Observations of net soil exchange of CO2 in a dryland show experimental warming increases carbon losses in biocrust soils

(2015) Anthony Darrouzet-Nardi et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

The dominant role of semi-arid ecosystems in the trend and variability of the land CO2 sink

(2015) A. Ahlstrom et al.   SCIENCE

Development and calibration of a novel sensor to quantify the water content of surface soils and biological soil crusts

(2015) Bettina Weber et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Accelerated dryland expansion under climate change

(2015) Jianping Huang et al.   Nature Climate Change

Biological soil crusts (biocrusts) as a model system in community, landscape and ecosystem ecology

(2014) Matthew A. Bowker et al.   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Contribution of semi-arid ecosystems to interannual variability of the global carbon cycle

(2014) Benjamin Poulter et al.   NATURE

Soil moisture increment as a controlling variable of the “Birch effect”. Interactions with the pre-wetting soil moisture and litter addition

(2014) Luis Lado-Monserrat et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

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

Contribution of cryptogamic covers to the global cycles of carbon and nitrogen

(2012) Wolfgang Elbert et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Soil nitrogen availability and transformations differ between the summer and the growing season in a California grassland

(2011) Sophie S. Parker et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Seasonal and episodic moisture controls on plant and microbial contributions to soil respiration

(2011) Mariah S. Carbone et al.   OECOLOGIA

The temperature responses of soil respiration in deserts: a seven desert synthesis

(2010) Jessica M. Cable et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Experimental drought in a tropical rain forest increases soil carbon dioxide losses to the atmosphere

(2010) Cory C. Cleveland et al.   ECOLOGY

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

The influence of precipitation pulses on soil respiration – Assessing the “Birch effect” by stable carbon isotopes

(2010) Stephan Unger et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil carbon dynamics in saline and sodic soils: a review

(2009) V. N. L. Wong et al.   SOIL USE AND MANAGEMENT

Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature

(2008) Mark A. Bradford et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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