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

What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?

(2010) Markus Kleber   Environmental Chemistry

Temperature and Hydrologic Controls on Dissolved Organic Matter Mobilization and Transport within a Forest Topsoil

(2010) Na Xu et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Evidence for a temperature acclimation mechanism in bacteria: an empirical test of a membrane-mediated trade-off

(2010) Edward K. Hall et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

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

Effect of temperature on the sorption and desorption of perfluorooctane sulfonate on humic acid

(2010) Chengxia Jia et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Temperature sensitivity of forest soil organic matter decomposition along two elevation gradients

(2010) Andreas Schindlbacher et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Soil carbon breakdown

(2010) Ivan A. Janssens et al.   Nature Geoscience

Widespread coupling between the rate and temperature sensitivity of organic matter decay

(2010) Joseph M. Craine et al.   Nature Geoscience

Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology

(2010) Steven D. Allison et al.   Nature Geoscience

Partitioning soil carbon responses to warming: Model-derived guidance for data interpretation

(2010) Richard T. Conant et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

On the ‘temperature sensitivity’ of soil respiration: Can we use the immeasurable to predict the unknown?

(2010) Jens-Arne Subke et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Decomposition temperature sensitivity of isolated soil organic matter fractions

(2010) Alain F. Plante et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Sequential density fractionation across soils of contrasting mineralogy: evidence for both microbial- and mineral-controlled soil organic matter stabilization

(2009) Phillip Sollins et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition—what do we know?

(2009) Margit von Lützow et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Decreased mass specific respiration under experimental warming is robust to the microbial biomass method employed

(2009) Mark A. Bradford et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Adaptation of soil microbial communities to temperature: comparison of fungi and bacteria in a laboratory experiment

(2009) GEMA BÁRCENAS-MORENO et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Investigating biological control over soil carbon temperature sensitivity

(2009) TERI C. BALSER et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Temperature sensitivity and substrate quality in soil organic matter decomposition: results of an incubation study with three substrates

(2009) J. Å. MARTIN WETTERSTEDT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Variable temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon in North American forests

(2009) CINZIA FISSORE et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

(2009) JEROEN GILLABEL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Thermal adaptation of heterotrophic soil respiration in laboratory microcosms

(2009) MARK A. BRADFORD et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Global pattern of temperature sensitivity of soil heterotrophic respiration (Q10) and its implications for carbon-climate feedback

(2009) Tao Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Kinetics and thermodynamics of adsorption of cadusafos on soils

(2009) Gamal S. ElShafei et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Temperature sensitivity of respiration differs among forest floor layers in a Pinus resinosa plantation

(2009) Glenna M. Malcolm et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Differences in chemical composition of soil organic matter in natural ecosystems from different climatic regions – A pyrolysis–GC/MS study

(2009) Karen Vancampenhout et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Does adding microbial mechanisms of decomposition improve soil organic matter models? A comparison of four models using data from a pulsed rewetting experiment

(2009) Corey R. Lawrence et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Temperature sensitivity of organic matter decomposition in two boreal forest soil profiles

(2009) K. Karhu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Nature of the “occluded” low-density fraction in soil organic matter studies: A critical review

(2009) Rota Wagai et al.   SOIL SCIENCE AND PLANT NUTRITION

Contributions of carbon cycle uncertainty to future climate projection spread

(2009) C. HUNTINGFORD et al.   TELLUS SERIES B-CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL METEOROLOGY

TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY OF THE TURNOVER TIMES OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER IN FORESTS

(2008) Robbert Hakkenberg et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

EXPERIMENTAL WARMING SHOWS THAT DECOMPOSITION TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY INCREASES WITH SOIL ORGANIC MATTER RECALCITRANCE

(2008) Richard T. Conant et al.   ECOLOGY

Thermal adaptation of soil microbial respiration to elevated temperature

(2008) Mark A. Bradford et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Soil microbial respiration in arctic soil does not acclimate to temperature

(2008) Iain P. Hartley et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Climate and parent material controls on organic matter storage in surface soils: A three-pool, density-separation approach

(2008) Rota Wagai et al.   GEODERMA

Sensitivity of organic matter decomposition to warming varies with its quality

(2008) RICHARD T. CONANT et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Seasonal variation in enzyme activities and temperature sensitivities in Arctic tundra soils

(2008) MATTHEW D. WALLENSTEIN et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Effects of substrate availability on the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

(2008) ALEXANDER GERSHENSON et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Stability of black carbon in soils across a climatic gradient

(2008) Chih-Hsin Cheng et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Temperature responses of individual soil organic matter components

(2008) Xiaojuan Feng et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Metagenome analysis of an extreme microbial symbiosis reveals eurythermal adaptation and metabolic flexibility

(2008) J. J. Grzymski et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Substrate quality and the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

(2008) Iain P. Hartley et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Patterns of substrate utilization during long-term incubations at different temperatures

(2008) J. Megan Steinweg et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil organic carbon quality in forested mineral wetlands at different mean annual temperature

(2008) Cinzia Fissore et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY