Aridity influences root versus shoot contributions to steppe grassland soil carbon stock and its stability

Soil carbon persistence governed by plant input and mineral protection at regional and global scales

(2021) Leiyi Chen et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Effects of biotic and abiotic factors on forest biomass fractions

(2021) Renfei Chen et al.   National Science Review

Global ecosystem thresholds driven by aridity

(2020) Miguel Berdugo et al.   SCIENCE

Traits mediate drought effects on wood carbon fluxes

(2020) Zhenhong Hu et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

East Siberian Arctic inland waters emit mostly contemporary carbon

(2020) Joshua F. Dean et al.   Nature Communications

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Plant carbon allocation in a changing world – challenges and progress: introduction to a Virtual Issue on carbon allocation

(2020) Henrik Hartmann et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nonlinear responses of soil nematode community composition to increasing aridity

(2019) Dan Xiong et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Shifts in the dynamics of productivity signal ecosystem state transitions at the biome-scale

(2018) Zhongmin Hu et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Large-Scale Distribution of Molecular Components in Chinese Grassland Soils: The Influence of Input and Decomposition Processes

(2018) Guohua Dai et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

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

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

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

(2017) Johanna Pausch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Structure and Functioning of Dryland Ecosystems in a Changing World

(2016) Fernando T. Maestre et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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

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

Fine roots are the dominant source of recalcitrant plant litter in sugar maple-dominated northern hardwood forests

(2015) Mengxue Xia et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Root biomass and soil δ13C in C3 and C4 grasslands along a precipitation gradient

(2015) Courtney L. Angelo et al.   PLANT ECOLOGY

piecewiseSEM: Piecewise structural equation modelling inr for ecology, evolution, and systematics

(2015) Jonathan S. Lefcheck   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Effects of harvest residue management on soil carbon and nitrogen processes in a Chinese fir plantation

(2014) Zhenhong Hu et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Aridity threshold in controlling ecosystem nitrogen cycling in arid and semi-arid grasslands

(2014) Chao Wang et al.   Nature Communications

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

(2013) Mark A. Bradford et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Linking litter decomposition of above- and below-ground organs to plant-soil feedbacks worldwide

(2013) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Opposite carbon isotope discrimination during dark respiration in leaves versus roots - a review

(2013) Jaleh Ghashghaie et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Environmental and physiological determinants of carbon isotope discrimination in terrestrial plants

(2013) Lucas A. Cernusak et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Roots and Associated Fungi Drive Long-Term Carbon Sequestration in Boreal Forest

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

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Root Biomass Dynamics Under Experimental Warming and Doubled Precipitation in a Tallgrass Prairie

(2012) Xuhui Zhou et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

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

Carbon allocation in grassland communities under drought stress followed by 14C pulse labeling

(2012) Muhammad Sanaullah et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Cycling downwards – dissolved organic matter in soils

(2012) Klaus Kaiser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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Evidence of a universal scaling relationship for leaf CO2 drawdown along an aridity gradient

(2010) I. Colin Prentice et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Post-harvest residue management effects on recalcitrant carbon pools and plant biomarkers within the soil heavy fraction in Pinus radiata plantations

(2010) Zhiqun Huang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Changes in the abundance of C3/C4 species of Inner Mongolia grassland: evidence from isotopic composition of soil and vegetation

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Molecular dynamics of shoot vs. root biomarkers in an agricultural soil estimated by natural abundance 13C labelling

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A comparative study of dissolved organic carbon transport and stabilization in California forest and grassland soils

(2008) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Climate controls on C3vs. C4productivity in North American grasslands from carbon isotope composition of soil organic matter

(2008) JOSEPH C. von FISCHER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

13C and 15N stabilization dynamics in soil organic matter fractions during needle and fine root decomposition

(2008) Jeffrey A. Bird et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Above- and belowground biomass in relation to environmental factors in temperate grasslands, Inner Mongolia

(2008) WenHong Ma et al.   Science in China. Series C, Life sciences / Chinese Academy of Sciences