Shrubification decreases soil organic carbon mineralization and its temperature sensitivity in alpine meadow soils

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Nutrient limitation may induce microbial mining for resources from persistent soil organic matter

(2021) Lettice C. Hicks et al.   ECOLOGY

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

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Soil microbial community structure and enzymatic activity along a plant cover gradient in Victoria Land (continental Antarctica)

(2019) Luca Bragazza et al.   GEODERMA

Enhanced decomposition of stable soil organic carbon and microbial catabolic potentials by long-term field warming

(2017) Wenting Feng et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Plant traits, stoichiometry and microbes as drivers of decomposition in the rhizosphere in a temperate grassland

(2017) Yolima Carrillo et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

The C:N:P:S stoichiometry of soil organic matter

(2016) Edward Tipping et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Savanna woody encroachment is widespread across three continents

(2016) Nicola Stevens et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

Both altitude and vegetation affect temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition in Mediterranean high mountain soils

(2015) Alba Gutiérrez-Girón et al.   GEODERMA

Rhizosphere priming can promote mobilisation of N-rich compounds from soil organic matter

(2015) Conor J. Murphy 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

Aspect-vegetation complex effects on biochemical characteristics and decomposability of soil organic carbon on the eastern Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

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The impacts of climate change and human activities on biogeochemical cycles on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau

(2013) Huai Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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?

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SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Impacts of shrub encroachment on ecosystem structure and functioning: towards a global synthesis

(2011) David J. Eldridge et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

(2011) Michael W. I. Schmidt et al.   NATURE

Terrestrial phosphorus limitation: mechanisms, implications, and nitrogen–phosphorus interactions

(2010) Peter M. Vitousek et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nutritional ecology of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2010) A. Hodge et al.   Fungal Ecology

Long-term fertilization and manuring effects on physically-separated soil organic matter pools under a wheat–wheat–maize cropping system in an arid region of China

(2009) Long Hai et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes

(2008) Gerlinde B. De Deyn et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil microbial biomass response to woody plant invasion of grassland

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