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

Microbial carbon use efficiency: accounting for population, community, and ecosystem-scale controls over the fate of metabolized organic matter

(2016) Kevin M. Geyer et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Effects of mineral characteristics on content, composition, and stability of organic matter fractions separated from seven forest topsoils of different pedogenesis

(2016) Michael Kaiser et al.   GEODERMA

Succession of soil microbial communities and enzyme activities in artificial soils

(2016) Franziska Ditterich et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Biogeochemical drivers of microbial community convergence across actively retreating glaciers

(2016) Sarah C. Castle et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The nature and dynamics of soil organic matter: Plant inputs, microbial transformations, and organic matter stabilization

(2016) Eldor A. Paul   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Linking molecular size, composition and carbon turnover of extractable soil microbial compounds

(2016) Ashish A. Malik et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Clay mineral composition modifies decomposition and sequestration of organic carbon and nitrogen in fine soil fractions

(2015) Cordula Vogel et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Current developments in soil organic matter modeling and the expansion of model applications: a review

(2015) Eleanor E Campbell et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

(2015) Michael J. Castellano et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The physiology and ecological implications of efficient growth

(2015) Benjamin RK Roller et al.   ISME Journal

Understanding the incremental value of novel diagnostic tests for tuberculosis

(2015) Nimalan Arinaminpathy et al.   NATURE

Microbial physiology and necromass regulate agricultural soil carbon accumulation

(2015) C.M. Kallenbach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The Molecular Composition of Dissolved Organic Matter in Forest Soils as a Function of pH and Temperature

(2015) Vanessa-Nina Roth et al.   PLoS One

Artificial soil studies reveal domain-specific preferences of microorganisms for the colonisation of different soil minerals and particle size fractions

(2014) Michael Hemkemeyer et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Clay minerals and metal oxides strongly influence the structure of alkane-degrading microbial communities during soil maturation

(2014) Annelie Steinbach et al.   ISME Journal

A theoretical analysis of microbial eco-physiological and diffusion limitations to carbon cycling in drying soils

(2014) S. Manzoni et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Weaker soil carbon–climate feedbacks resulting from microbial and abiotic interactions

(2014) Jinyun Tang et al.   Nature Climate Change

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

(2013) Mark A. Bradford et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Soil organic matter dynamics: a biological perspective derived from the use of compound-specific isotopes studies

(2013) Gerd Gleixner   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

The temperature response of soil microbial efficiency and its feedback to climate

(2013) Serita D. Frey et al.   Nature Climate Change

The source of microbial C has little impact on soil organic matter stabilisation in forest ecosystems

(2012) Heather M. Throckmorton et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The origin of litter chemical complexity during decomposition

(2012) Kyle Wickings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Development of biogeochemical interfaces in an artificial soil incubation experiment; aggregation and formation of organo-mineral associations

(2012) Geertje Johanna Pronk et al.   GEODERMA

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

Litter chemistry changes more rapidly when decomposed at home but converges during decomposition–transformation

(2012) Matthew D. Wallenstein et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

(2011) Richard T. Conant et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Biological, chemical and thermal indices of soil organic matter stability in four grassland soils

(2011) Alain F. Plante et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

An Absorbing Markov Chain approach to understanding the microbial role in soil carbon stabilization

(2010) Chao Liang et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?

(2010) Markus Kleber   Environmental Chemistry

Microbial uptake of low-molecular-weight organic substances out-competes sorption in soil

(2010) H. Fischer et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Old and stable soil organic matter is not necessarily chemically recalcitrant: implications for modeling concepts and temperature sensitivity

(2010) MARKUS KLEBER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The influence of microbial communities, management, and soil texture on soil organic matter chemistry

(2009) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   GEODERMA

Experimental evidence for the attenuating effect of SOM protection on temperature sensitivity of SOM decomposition

(2009) JEROEN GILLABEL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The earliest stages of ecosystem succession in high-elevation (5000 metres above sea level), recently deglaciated soils

(2008) S.K Schmidt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Molecular C dynamics downstream: The biochemical decomposition sequence and its impact on soil organic matter structure and function

(2008) A. Stuart Grandy et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT