Coupled iron cycling and organic matter transformation across redox interfaces

H Dong, Q Zeng, Y Sheng, C Chen, G Yu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Soils and sediments are major reservoirs of organic matter (OM), whose dynamic turnover
has a major impact on carbon cycling and global climate. OM in soils and sediments is …

Life and death in the soil microbiome: how ecological processes influence biogeochemistry

NW Sokol, E Slessarev, GL Marschmann… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil microorganisms shape global element cycles in life and death. Living soil
microorganisms are a major engine of terrestrial biogeochemistry, driving the turnover of soil …

Microbial carbon use efficiency promotes global soil carbon storage

F Tao, Y Huang, BA Hungate, S Manzoni, SD Frey… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Soils store more carbon than other terrestrial ecosystems,. How soil organic carbon (SOC)
forms and persists remains uncertain,, which makes it challenging to understand how it will …

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

K Georgiou, RB Jackson, O Vindušková… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Soil is the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon and is central for climate change
mitigation and carbon-climate feedbacks. Chemical and physical associations of soil carbon …

Unlocking complex soil systems as carbon sinks: multi-pool management as the key

G Angst, KE Mueller, MJ Castellano, C Vogel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Much research focuses on increasing carbon storage in mineral-associated organic matter
(MAOM), in which carbon may persist for centuries to millennia. However, MAOM-targeted …

Microbial necromass as the source of soil organic carbon in global ecosystems

B Wang, S An, C Liang, Y Liu, Y Kuzyakov - Soil Biology and Biochemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the recognized importance of the contribution of microbial necromass to soil organic
carbon (SOC) sequestration, at a global scale, there has been no quantification for cropland …

Soil carbon sequestration by root exudates

P Panchal, C Preece, J Peñuelas, J Giri - Trends in Plant Science, 2022 - cell.com
Root exudates are well-known 'labile'sources of soil carbon that can prime microbial activity.
Recent investigations suggest that the stability of labile carbon inputs in soil mostly depends …

Mycorrhizal mycelium as a global carbon pool

HJ Hawkins, RIM Cargill, ME Van Nuland, SC Hagen… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
For more than 400 million years, mycorrhizal fungi and plants have formed partnerships that
are crucial to the emergence and functioning of global ecosystems. The importance of these …

[HTML][HTML] Particulate organic matter as a functional soil component for persistent soil organic carbon

K Witzgall, A Vidal, DI Schubert, C Höschen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The largest terrestrial organic carbon pool, carbon in soils, is regulated by an intricate
connection between plant carbon inputs, microbial activity, and the soil matrix. This is …

Clarifying the evidence for microbial‐and plant‐derived soil organic matter, and the path toward a more quantitative understanding

ED Whalen, AS Grandy, NW Sokol… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting and mitigating changes in soil carbon (C) stocks under global change requires a
coherent understanding of the factors regulating soil organic matter (SOM) formation and …