Initial soil formation by biocrusts: Nitrogen demand and clay protection control microbial necromass accrual and recycling

4D imaging reveals mechanisms of clay-carbon protection and release

(2021) Judy Q. Yang et al.   Nature Communications

Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns

(2021) Matthew E. Craig et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Contrasting pathways of carbon sequestration in paddy and upland soils

(2021) Xiangbi Chen et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

Fine silt and clay content is the main factor defining maximal C and N accumulations in soils: a meta-analysis

(2021) Francisco J. Matus   Scientific Reports

Microbial tradeoffs in internal and external use of resources regulated by phosphorus and carbon availability

(2021) Nataliya Bilyera et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Contribution of biological soil crusts to soil organic matter composition and stability in temperate forests

(2021) Karen Baumann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

Soil nitrogen and climate drive the positive effect of biological soil crusts on soil organic carbon sequestration in drylands: A Meta-analysis

(2021) Hengkang Xu et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Pathways of biogenically excreted organic matter into soil aggregates

(2021) Tom Guhra et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2021) Baorong Wang et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Biological Crusts to Increase Soil Carbon Sequestration: New Challenges in a New Environment

(2021) Paola Duran et al.   Biology-Basel

Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C:N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

(2020) Jun Cui 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

Management practices differently affect particulate and mineral-associated organic matter and their precursors in arable soils

(2020) Marie-Élise Samson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Dynamics of microbial residues control the responses of mineral-associated soil organic carbon to N addition in two temperate forests

(2020) Jungang Chen et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Soil moisture mediates microbial carbon and phosphorus metabolism during vegetation succession in a semiarid region

(2020) Yongxing Cui et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

N addition increased microbial residual carbon by altering soil P availability and microbial composition in a subtropical Castanopsis forest

(2020) Yuexin Fan et al.   GEODERMA

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

Coarse mineral-associated organic matter is a pivotal fraction for SOM formation and is sensitive to the quality of organic inputs

(2020) Marie-Élise Samson 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

Organo–organic and organo–mineral interfaces in soil at the nanometer scale

(2020) Angela R. Possinger et al.   Nature Communications

Extracellular enzyme activity and stoichiometry: The effect of soil microbial element limitation during leaf litter decomposition

(2020) Xuejuan Bai et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

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

From rock eating to vegetarian ecosystems — Disentangling processes of phosphorus acquisition across biomes

(2020) Moritz Koester et al.   GEODERMA

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

Microbial spatial footprint as a driver of soil carbon stabilization

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

Initial microaggregate formation: Association of microorganisms to montmorillonite-goethite aggregates under wetting and drying cycles

(2019) Lars Krause et al.   GEODERMA

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

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

Comparative metagenomics of two distinct biological soil crusts in the Tengger Desert, China

(2019) Jing-Yu Li 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

Seasonal changes of soil microbial C, N, P and associated nutrient dynamics in a semiarid grassland of north China

(2018) Hao Chen et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

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

Dryland photoautotrophic soil surface communities endangered by global change

(2018) Emilio Rodriguez-Caballero et al.   Nature Geoscience

Isolating organic carbon fractions with varying turnover rates in temperate agricultural soils – A comprehensive method comparison

(2018) Christopher Poeplau et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Metagenomic and 13 C tracing evidence for autotrophic atmospheric carbon absorption in a semiarid desert

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

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

Changes in functional gene structure and metabolic potential of the microbial community in biological soil crusts along a revegetation chronosequence in the Tengger Desert

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

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

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

Viruses in soil: Nano-scale undead drivers of microbial life, biogeochemical turnover and ecosystem functions

(2018) Yakov Kuzyakov et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbial community composition closely associates with specific enzyme activities and soil carbon chemistry in a long-term nitrogen fertilized grassland

(2018) Yue Li et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Bovine Serum Albumin Adsorption at a Silica Surface Explored by Simulation and Experiment

(2017) Karina Kubiak-Ossowska et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B

Biological soil crusts decrease erodibility by modifying inherent soil properties on the Loess Plateau, China

(2017) Liqian Gao et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

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

Vector analysis of ecoenzyme activities reveal constraints on coupled C, N and P dynamics

(2016) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbial community structure and function are significantly affected by long-term organic and mineral fertilization regimes in the North China Plain

(2015) Juan Li et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

The application of ecological stoichiometry to plant–microbial–soil organic matter transformations

(2015) Sophie Zechmeister-Boltenstern et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate

(2015) Sebastian Doetterl et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

Organic matter from biological soil crusts induces the initial formation of sandy temperate soils

(2014) A. Dümig et al.   CATENA

Microbial community dynamics alleviate stoichiometric constraints during litter decay

(2014) Christina Kaiser et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pathways of litter C by formation of aggregates and SOM density fractions: Implications from 13C natural abundance

(2014) Anna Gunina et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Stoichiometric imbalances between terrestrial decomposer communities and their resources: mechanisms and implications of microbial adaptations to their resources

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

An experimental test of the hypothesis of non-homeostatic consumer stoichiometry in a plant litter-microbe system

(2013) Nicolas Fanin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Dryland biological soil crust cyanobacteria show unexpected decreases in abundance under long-term elevated CO2

(2012) Blaire Steven et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Increased temperature and altered summer precipitation have differential effects on biological soil crusts in a dryland ecosystem

(2012) Shannon L. Johnson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Erratum: Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis

(2011) Stefano Manzoni et al.   ECOLOGY

Carbon exchange in biological soil crust communities under differential temperatures and soil water contents: implications for global change

(2010) EDMUND E. GROTE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

To be or not to be what you eat: regulation of stoichiometric homeostasis among autotrophs and heterotrophs

(2010) Jonas Persson et al.   OIKOS

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

Global change and biological soil crusts: effects of ultraviolet augmentation under altered precipitation regimes and nitrogen additions

(2008) JAYNE BELNAP et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY