Management of grasslands by mowing versus grazing – impacts on soil organic matter quality and microbial functioning

Grassland Management Influences the Response of Soil Respiration to Drought

(2019) Gabriel Moinet et al.   Agronomy-Basel

Modeling Carbon and Water Fluxes of Managed Grasslands: Comparing Flux Variability and Net Carbon Budgets between Grazed and Mowed Systems

(2019) Puche et al.   Agronomy-Basel

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

(2019) N.E. Tautges et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Soil carbon stock changes in tropical croplands are mainly driven by carbon inputs: A synthesis

(2018) Kenji Fujisaki et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Critical review of the impacts of grazing intensity on soil organic carbon storage and other soil quality indicators in extensively managed grasslands

(2018) M. Abdalla et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Grazing enhances belowground carbon allocation, microbial biomass, and soil carbon in a subtropical grassland

(2018) Chris H. Wilson et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Environmental controls on extracellular polysaccharide accumulation in a California grassland soil

(2018) Kenneth A. Marchus et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Soil microbial community responses to long-term land use intensification in subtropical grazing lands

(2017) Sutie Xu et al.   GEODERMA

Relevance of substrate quality and nutrients for microbial C-turnover in top- and subsoil of a Dystric Cambisol

(2017) Julian Heitkötter et al.   GEODERMA

The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

(2017) Chao Liang et al.   Nature Microbiology

Modelling nitrous oxide emissions from mown-grass and grain-cropping systems: Testing and sensitivity analysis of DailyDayCent using high frequency measurements

(2016) Nimai Senapati et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

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

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

Formation of soil organic matter via biochemical and physical pathways of litter mass loss

(2015) M. Francesca Cotrufo et al.   Nature Geoscience

Nonlinear temperature sensitivity of enzyme kinetics explains canceling effect—a case study on loamy haplic Luvisol

(2015) Bahar S. Razavi et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The role of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle: tracking the below-ground microbial processing of plant-derived carbon for manipulating carbon dynamics in agricultural systems

(2014) Christos Gougoulias et al.   JOURNAL OF THE SCIENCE OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE

Net carbon storage measured in a mowed and grazed temperate sown grassland shows potential for carbon sequestration under grazed system

(2014) Nimai Senapati et al.   Carbon Management

Active microorganisms in soil: Critical review of estimation criteria and approaches

(2013) Evgenia Blagodatskaya et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil

(2012) Joshua P. Schimel et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Plant and soil responses to defoliation: a comparative study of grass species with contrasting life history strategies

(2011) Eduardo Medina-Roldán et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Soil microbial biomass and its activity estimated by kinetic respiration analysis – Statistical guidelines

(2011) Thomas Wutzler et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Transformation of buffalo manure by composting or vermicomposting to rehabilitate degraded tropical soils

(2010) Phuong Thi Ngo et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING

Analysis of hydrolysable neutral sugars in mineral soils: Improvement of alditol acetylation for gas chromatographic separation and measurement

(2010) Elisabeth Eder et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

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

(2010) Cornelia Rumpel et al.   PLANT AND SOIL

Pathways of Grazing Effects on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen

(2010) Gervasio Piñeiro et al.   Rangeland Ecology & Management

Soil microbial biomass: The eco-physiological approach

(2010) Traute-Heidi Anderson et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Fate of lignins in soils: A review

(2010) Mathieu Thevenot et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

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

Influence of defoliation on CO2 efflux from soil and microbial activity in a Mediterranean grassland

(2009) Olga Gavrichkova et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

How does plant leaf senescence of grassland species influence decomposition kinetics and litter compounds dynamics?

(2009) Muhammad Sanaullah et al.   NUTRIENT CYCLING IN AGROECOSYSTEMS

Tracking the fate of dung-derived carbohydrates in a temperate grassland soil using compound-specific stable isotope analysis

(2009) Jennifer A.J. Dungait et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Quantification and monosaccharide composition of hemicelluloses from different plant functional types

(2009) Christina Schädel et al.   PLANT PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Microbial contributions to climate change through carbon cycle feedbacks

(2008) Richard D Bardgett et al.   ISME Journal

Off-line pyrolysis and compound-specific stable carbon isotope analysis of lignin moieties: a new method for determining the fate of lignin residues in soil

(2008) Jennifer A. J. Dungait et al.   RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY

Stabilised carbon in subsoil horizons is located in spatially distinct parts of the soil profile

(2008) A. Chabbi et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture

(2007) P. Smith et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES