Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils

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Temporal and spatial variations in the mean residence time of soil organic carbon and their relationship with climatic, soil and vegetation drivers

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Why does mineral fertilization increase soil carbon stocks in temperate grasslands?

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Improvement of soil structure through organic crop management, conservation tillage and grass-clover ley

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Below ground carbon inputs to soil via root biomass and rhizodeposition of field-grown maize and wheat at harvest are independent of net primary productivity

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Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

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Microbial formation of stable soil carbon is more efficient from belowground than aboveground input

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Modelling soil organic matter dynamics on a bare fallow Chernozem soil in Central Germany

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Carbon input by roots into the soil: Quantification of rhizodeposition from root to ecosystem scale

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Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization

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The importance of anabolism in microbial control over soil carbon storage

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Long-term agricultural management maximizing hay production can significantly reduce belowground C storage

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Organic input quality is more important than its quantity: C turnover coefficients in different cropping systems

(2016) Antonio Berti et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF AGRONOMY

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The muddle of ages, turnover, transit, and residence times in the carbon cycle

(2016) Carlos A. Sierra et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

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Estimating root: shoot ratio and soil carbon inputs in temperate grasslands with the RothC model

(2016) Christopher Poeplau   PLANT AND SOIL

The decadal state of the terrestrial carbon cycle: Global retrievals of terrestrial carbon allocation, pools, and residence times

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

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Consolidating soil carbon turnover models by improved estimates of belowground carbon input

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Mean residence time of global topsoil organic carbon depends on temperature, precipitation and soil nitrogen

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Large-scale sequestration of atmospheric carbon via plant roots in natural and agricultural ecosystems: why and how

(2012) D. B. Kell   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A new variable importance measure for random forests with missing data

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Roots contribute more to refractory soil organic matter than above-ground crop residues, as revealed by a long-term field experiment

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Ratios of carbon to nitrogen quantify non-texture-stabilized organic carbon in sandy soils

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Simulation of soil organic carbon response at forest cultivation sequences using 13C measurements

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