Stable isotopes reveal that fungal residues contribute more to mineral-associated organic matter pools than plant residues

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Plant- or microbial-derived? A review on the molecular composition of stabilized soil organic matter

(2021) Gerrit Angst et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Visualizing the transfer of organic matter from decaying plant residues to soil mineral surfaces controlled by microorganisms

(2021) Alix Vidal et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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Dissolved organic carbon production and flux under long-term litter manipulations in a Pacific Northwest old-growth forest

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Substrate quality drives fungal necromass decay and decomposer community structure under contrasting vegetation types

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Plant nutrient‐acquisition strategies drive topsoil microbiome structure and function

(2020) Mohammad Bahram et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

(2020) Johannes Lehmann et al.   Nature Geoscience

Stable C and N isotope natural abundances of intraradical hyphae of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

(2020) Saskia Klink et al.   MYCORRHIZA

Variation in hyphal production rather than turnover regulates standing fungal biomass in temperate hardwood forests

(2020) Tanya E. Cheeke et al.   ECOLOGY

Nitrogen cycling microbiomes are structured by plant mycorrhizal associations with consequences for nitrogen oxide fluxes in forests

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Enrichment of Lignin-Derived Carbon in Mineral-Associated Soil Organic Matter

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Quantitative assessment of microbial necromass contribution to soil organic matter

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Mycorrhizal Fungi as Mediators of Soil Organic Matter Dynamics

(2019) Serita D. Frey   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century

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

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Spatio-temporal heterogeneity in extracellular enzyme activities tracks variation in saprotrophic fungal biomass in a temperate hardwood forest

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Soil organic matter is stabilized by organo-mineral associations through two key processes: The role of the carbon to nitrogen ratio

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Amino sugars as specific indices for fungal and bacterial residues in soil

(2018) Rainer Georg Joergensen   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

Tree mycorrhizal type predicts within-site variability in the storage and distribution of soil organic matter

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

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

Plant litter quality affects the accumulation rate, composition, and stability of mineral-associated soil organic matter

(2018) S. Carolina Córdova et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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

(2018) Noah W. Sokol et al.   Nature Geoscience

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

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Resource stoichiometry and the biogeochemical consequences of nitrogen deposition in a mixed deciduous forest

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Substrate quality influences organic matter accumulation in the soil silt and clay fraction

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Distinct fungal and bacterial δ13C signatures as potential drivers of increasing δ13C of soil organic matter with depth

(2015) Lukas Kohl et al.   BIOGEOCHEMISTRY

Fungi contribute more than bacteria to soil organic matter through necromass accumulation under different agricultural practices during the early pedogenesis of a Mollisol

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Integrating plant litter quality, soil organic matter stabilization, and the carbon saturation concept

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Decay rates of leaf litters from arbuscular mycorrhizal trees are more sensitive to soil effects than litters from ectomycorrhizal trees

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The contentious nature of soil organic matter

(2015) Johannes Lehmann et al.   NATURE

Phosphorus cycling in deciduous forest soil differs between stands dominated by ecto- and arbuscular mycorrhizal trees

(2015) Anna Rosling et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Revisiting the ‘Gadgil effect’: do interguild fungal interactions control carbon cycling in forest soils?

(2015) Christopher W. Fernandez et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Nanoscale evidence of contrasted processes for root-derived organic matter stabilization by mineral interactions depending on soil depth

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Significance of microbial asynchronous anabolism to soil carbon dynamics driven by litter inputs

(2015) Zhaosheng Fan et al.   Scientific Reports

Exploring the transfer of recent plant photosynthates to soil microbes: mycorrhizal pathway vs direct root exudation

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Increase in soil stable carbon isotope ratio relates to loss of organic carbon: results from five long-term bare fallow experiments

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Empirical evidence that soil carbon formation from plant inputs is positively related to microbial growth

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The mycorrhizal-associated nutrient economy: a new framework for predicting carbon-nutrient couplings in temperate forests

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Bioavailability and isotopic composition of CO2 released from incubated soil organic matter fractions

(2013) Carsten W. Mueller et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

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?

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Controls of isotopic patterns in saprotrophic and ectomycorrhizal fungi

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Source Partitioning Using Stable Isotopes: Coping with Too Much Variation

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Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi contribute to 13C and 15N enrichment of soil organic matter in forest soils

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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

Soil organic carbon stocks, distribution, and composition affected by historic land use changes on adjacent sites

(2008) Carsten W. Mueller et al.   BIOLOGY AND FERTILITY OF SOILS

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

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