Eco-functionality of organic matter in soils

Is litter decomposition enhanced in species mixtures? A meta-analysis

(2020) Rima J. Porre et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Predicting nitrogen mineralization from organic amendments: beyond C/N ratio by 13C-CPMAS NMR approach

(2019) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

What do we know about soil carbon destabilization?

(2019) Vanessa L Bailey et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

(2019) Chao Liang et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Testing the dependence of microbial growth and carbon use efficiency on nitrogen availability, pH, and organic matter quality

(2019) Alex Silva-Sánchez et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial models with minimal mineral protection can explain long-term soil organic carbon persistence

(2019) Dominic Woolf et al.   Scientific Reports

An evolutionary signal to fungal succession during plant litter decay

(2019) Sasha Vivelo et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Earthworms modify soil bacterial and fungal communities through enhancing aggregation and buffering pH

(2019) Xin Gong et al.   GEODERMA

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

(2019) Lars Krause et al.   GEODERMA

Organic matter input determines structure development and aggregate formation in artificial soils

(2019) Franziska B. Bucka 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

Retention of propiconazole and terbutryn on acid sandy-loam soils with different organic matter and Cu concentrations

(2019) Manuel Conde-Cid et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter

(2019) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Response of soil microbial communities to agroecological versus conventional systems of extensive agriculture

(2018) Diego N. Chavarria et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Hormone-like activity of the soil organic matter

(2018) Serenella Nardi et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Hypothetical framework integrating the main mechanisms involved in the promoting action of rhizospheric humic substances on plant root- and shoot- growth

(2018) Maite Olaetxea et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content

(2018) Craig Rasmussen et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Distribution and thermal stability of physically and chemically protected organic matter fractions in soils across different ecosystems

(2018) Beatrice Giannetta et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Metal sorption to Spodosol Bs horizons: Organic matter complexes predominate

(2018) Charlotta Tiberg et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Litter chemistry influences decomposition through activity of specific microbial functional guilds

(2018) Jennifer M. Bhatnagar et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Organic matter coatings of soil minerals affect adsorptive interactions with phenolic and amino acids

(2018) J. Gao et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Soil structure as an indicator of soil functions: A review

(2018) E. Rabot et al.   GEODERMA

Effects of soil macro- and mesofauna on litter decomposition and soil organic matter stabilization

(2018) Jan Frouz   GEODERMA

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

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

Multiple exchange processes on mineral surfaces control the transport of dissolved organic matter through soil profiles

(2018) T. Leinemann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Greatest soil microbial diversity found in micro-habitats

(2018) Elizabeth M. Bach et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Linking organic matter chemistry with soil aggregate stability: Insight from 13 C NMR spectroscopy

(2018) Tushar C. Sarker et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Volatile-mediated suppression of plant pathogens is related to soil properties and microbial community composition

(2018) Maaike van Agtmaal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil quality – A critical review

(2018) Else K. Bünemann et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial and plant-derived compounds both contribute to persistent soil organic carbon in temperate soils

(2018) Pierre Barré et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

Consistent proteinaceous organic matter partitioning into mineral and organic soil fractions during pedogenesis in diverse ecosystems

(2018) Jinyoung Moon et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Mobilization of ferrihydrite-associated organic carbon during Fe reduction: Adsorption versus coprecipitation

(2018) Lanfang Han et al.   CHEMICAL GEOLOGY

Soil Organic Carbon Stabilization: Mapping Carbon Speciation from Intact Microaggregates

(2018) Maria C. Hernandez-Soriano et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Direct Evidence for Temporal Molecular Fractionation of Dissolved Organic Matter at the Iron Oxyhydroxide Interface

(2018) Elizabeth K. Coward et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

(2018) Martin Wiesmeier et al.   GEODERMA

Natural 13C abundance reveals age of dietary carbon sources in nematode trophic groups

(2018) Mette Vestergård et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Linking bacterial and eukaryotic microbiota to litter chemistry: Combining next generation sequencing with 13C CPMAS NMR spectroscopy

(2018) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Water-stable aggregates and carbon accumulation in barren sandy soil depend on organic amendment method: A three-year field study

(2018) Hongcui Dai et al.   JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

Effect of inorganic fertilisers and organic amendments on soil aggregation and biochemical characteristics in a weathered tropical soil

(2018) S. Mangalassery et al.   SOIL & TILLAGE RESEARCH

Organic carbon characteristics in density fractions of soils with contrasting mineralogies

(2017) Sabina Yeasmin et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Stabilization of soil organic matter by earthworms is connected with physical protection rather than with chemical changes of organic matter

(2017) Šárka Angst et al.   GEODERMA

Nitrogen-rich microbial products provide new organo-mineral associations for the stabilization of soil organic matter

(2017) Peter M. Kopittke et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Litter for life: assessing the multifunctional legacy of plant traits

(2017) André Tavares Corrêa Dias et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Microaggregates in soils

(2017) Kai Uwe Totsche et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

The influence of soil organic matter fractions on aggregates stabilization in agricultural and forest soils of selected Slovak and Czech hilly lands

(2017) Nora Polláková et al.   JOURNAL OF SOILS AND SEDIMENTS

Nitrogen fertiliser replacement values for organic amendments appear to increase with N application rates

(2017) R. Hijbeek et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Species and root traits impact macroaggregation in the rhizospheric soil of a Mediterranean common garden experiment

(2017) Vincent Poirier et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Glyphosate binding in soil as revealed by sorption experiments and quantum-chemical modeling

(2017) Peter Gros et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Evaluation of mesofauna communities as soil quality indicators in a national-level monitoring programme

(2017) Paul B.L. George et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Can earthworms simultaneously enhance decomposition and stabilization of plant residue carbon?

(2017) Ingrid M. Lubbers et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Immediate and long-term effect of tannins on the stabilization of soil aggregates

(2017) Amandine Erktan et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The energetic and chemical signatures of persistent soil organic matter

(2016) Pierre Barré et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Effects of soil and leaf litter quality on the biomass of two endogeic earthworm species

(2016) Simone Cesarz et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL BIOLOGY

Is there a convergence of deciduous leaf litter stoichiometry, biochemistry and microbial population during decay?

(2016) Dong Liu et al.   GEODERMA

Plant versus microbial controls on soil aggregate stability in a seasonally dry ecosystem

(2016) Joseph C. Blankinship et al.   GEODERMA

The impact of crop rotation on soil microbial diversity: A meta-analysis

(2016) Zander Samuel Venter et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Do organic inputs matter – a meta-analysis of additional yield effects for arable crops in Europe

(2016) R. Hijbeek et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Eating from the same plate? Revisiting the role of labile carbon inputs in the soil food web

(2016) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2016) Cynthia M. Kallenbach et al.   Nature Communications

Commercial Humates in Agriculture: Real Substance or Smoke and Mirrors?

(2016) Graham Lyons et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Structure-Property-Function Relationship in Humic Substances to Explain the Biological Activity in Plants

(2016) Andrés Calderín García et al.   Scientific Reports

Physical soil architectural traits are functionally linked to carbon decomposition and bacterial diversity

(2016) S. M. F. Rabbi et al.   Scientific Reports

Earthworm services for cropping systems. A review

(2015) Michel Bertrand et al.   Agronomy for Sustainable Development

Organic Amendments, Beneficial Microbes, and Soil Microbiota: Toward a Unified Framework for Disease Suppression

(2015) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   Annual Review of Phytopathology

Nature and decomposition degree of cover crops influence pesticide sorption: Quantification and modelling

(2015) A. Cassigneul et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Linkages between aggregate formation, porosity and soil chemical properties

(2015) Inge C. Regelink et al.   GEODERMA

The contentious nature of soil organic matter

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   NATURE

Rhizosphere priming can promote mobilisation of N-rich compounds from soil organic matter

(2015) Conor J. Murphy et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil aggregate formation and stability induced by starch and cellulose

(2015) Katsutoshi Mizuta et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Mineral protection of soil carbon counteracted by root exudates

(2015) Marco Keiluweit et al.   Nature Climate Change

Multi-surface Modeling To Predict Free Zinc Ion Concentrations in Low-Zinc Soils

(2014) Andreas Duffner et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The use of assemblage models to describe trace element partitioning, speciation, and fate: A review

(2014) Jan E. Groenenberg et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Plant species richness promotes soil carbon and nitrogen stocks in grasslands without legumes

(2014) Wen-Feng Cong et al.   JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY

Dynamics of soil dissolved organic carbon pools reveal both hydrophobic and hydrophilic compounds sustain microbial respiration

(2014) Angela L. Straathof et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Adjustment of microbial nitrogen use efficiency to carbon:nitrogen imbalances regulates soil nitrogen cycling

(2014) Maria Mooshammer et al.   Nature Communications

Earthworms increase plant production: a meta-analysis

(2014) Jan Willem van Groenigen et al.   Scientific Reports

Differential production yet chemical similarity of dissolved organic matter across a chronosequence with contrasting nutrient availability in Hawaii

(2013) Jonathan Sanderman et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2013) Gerd Gleixner   ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH

Functional land management: A framework for managing soil-based ecosystem services for the sustainable intensification of agriculture

(2013) Rogier P.O. Schulte et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY

Effect of organic matter and pH on the adsorption of metalaxyl and penconazole by soils

(2013) Dora Gondar et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Calculating co-metabolic costs of lignin decay and their impacts on carbon use efficiency

(2013) Daryl L. Moorhead et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Release of isothiocyanates does not explain the effects of biofumigation with Indian mustard cultivars on nematode assemblages

(2013) Mariëtte T.W. Vervoort et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

The origin of litter chemical complexity during decomposition

(2012) Kyle Wickings et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Use of specific peaks obtained by diffuse reflectance Fourier transform mid-infrared spectroscopy to study the composition of organic matter in a Haplic Chernozem

(2012) M. S. Demyan et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE

Long-term carbon storage through retention of dissolved aromatic acids by reactive particles in soil

(2012) Marc G. Kramer et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil organic matter turnover is governed by accessibility not recalcitrance

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

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

A global analysis of soil microbial biomass carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in terrestrial ecosystems

(2012) Xiaofeng Xu et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

Cycling downwards – dissolved organic matter in soils

(2012) Klaus Kaiser et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Soil enzymes in a changing environment: Current knowledge and future directions

(2012) Richard G. Burns et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source

(2011) Anja Miltner et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Humic Ion-Binding Model VII: a revised parameterisation of cation-binding by humic substances

(2011) E. Tipping et al.   Environmental Chemistry

A plant economics spectrum of litter decomposability

(2011) Grégoire T. Freschet et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Stable soil organic matter: A comparison of C:N:P:S ratios in Australian and other world soils

(2011) C.A. Kirkby et al.   GEODERMA

Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property

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

Nitrogen losses from two grassland soils with different fungal biomass

(2011) Franciska T. de Vries et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Response to the Concept paper: 'What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?' by Markus Kleber

(2010) Margit von Lützow et al.   Environmental Chemistry

What is recalcitrant soil organic matter?

(2010) Markus Kleber   Environmental Chemistry

Bottom-up effects of plant diversity on multitrophic interactions in a biodiversity experiment

(2010) Christoph Scherber et al.   NATURE

Deep soil organic matter—a key but poorly understood component of terrestrial C cycle

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Considering fungal:bacterial dominance in soils – Methods, controls, and ecosystem implications

(2010) Michael S. Strickland et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Evaluation of a Generic Multisurface Sorption Model for Inorganic Soil Contaminants

(2009) Joris J. Dijkstra et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Gut wall bacteria of earthworms: a natural selection process

(2009) Dwipendra Thakuria et al.   ISME Journal

Searching for unifying principles in soil ecology

(2009) Noah Fierer et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Identifying the characteristics of organic soil amendments that suppress soilborne plant diseases

(2009) Giuliano Bonanomi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Humic Nanoparticles at the Oxide−Water Interface: Interactions with Phosphate Ion Adsorption

(2008) Liping Weng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

How relevant is recalcitrance for the stabilization of organic matter in soils?

(2008) Bernd Marschner et al.   JOURNAL OF PLANT NUTRITION AND SOIL SCIENCE

Earthworm population dynamics as influenced by the quality of exogenous organic matter

(2008) Ben L.M. Leroy et al.   PEDOBIOLOGIA

Nematode community development early in ecological restoration: The role of organic amendments

(2008) Lori A. Biederman et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Speciation of Cu in a Contaminated Agricultural Soil Measured by XAFS, μ-XAFS, and μ-XRF

(2007) Daniel G. Strawn et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY