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Cover cropping enhances soil microbial biomass and affects microbial community structure: A meta-analysis

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Soil organic carbon and nitrogen pools are increased by mixed grass and legume cover crops in vineyard agroecosystems: Detecting short-term management effects using infrared spectroscopy

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

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Melanin mitigates the accelerated decay of mycorrhizal necromass with peatland warming

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Deep soil inventories reveal that impacts of cover crops and compost on soil carbon sequestration differ in surface and sub‐surface soils

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Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Combining cover crops and low nitrogen fertilization improves soil supporting functions

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Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

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Enhanced Stabilization of Soil Organic Carbon by Growing Leguminous Green Manure on the Loess Plateau of China

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Cover cropping and no-till increase diversity and symbiotroph:saprotroph ratios of soil fungal communities

(2018) Radomir Schmidt et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Does organic farming accumulate carbon in deeper soil profiles in the long term?

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Green supply chain management: An investigation of pressures, practices, and performance within the Brazilian automotive supply chain

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Cover cropping frequency is the main driver of soil microbial changes during six years of organic vegetable production

(2017) Eric B. Brennan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Scaling-up: cover crops differentially influence soil carbon in agricultural fields with diverse topography

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High quality residues from cover crops favor changes in microbial community and enhance C and N sequestration

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Effect of cover plants on soil C and N dynamics in different soil management systems in dwarf cashew culture

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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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Accumulation of nitrogen and microbial residues during 2000 years of rice paddy and non-paddy soil development in the Yangtze River Delta, China

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