Linking temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition to its molecular structure, accessibility, and microbial physiology

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

(2012) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Light and Heavy Fractions of Soil Organic Matter in Response to Climate Warming and Increased Precipitation in a Temperate Steppe

(2012) Bing Song et al.   PLoS One

Warming accelerates decomposition of decades-old carbon in forest soils

(2012) F. M. Hopkins et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Can composition and physical protection of soil organic matter explain soil respiration temperature sensitivity?

(2010) Michael Zimmermann et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?

(2010) Markus Kleber   Environmental Chemistry

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

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

Short-term temperature dependence of heterotrophic soil respiration after one-month of pre-incubation at different temperatures

(2010) Salwa Hamdi 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

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

(2009) JEROEN GILLABEL et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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

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

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

Substrate quality and the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition

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