Most of Earth's terrestrial surface is made up of slo** landscapes. The lateral distribution
of topsoil by erosion controls the availability, stock, and persistence of essential elements in …

Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of various functional pools that are stabilized by specific
mechanisms and have certain turnover rates. For the development of mechanistic models …

Forest soil carbon (C) storage is a significant component of the global C cycle, and is
important for sustaining forest productivity. Although forest management may have …

Routine soil surveys for estimating the soil organic carbon (SOC) pool account for a soil
depth of about 1 m. Deeper soil horizons, however, may have a high capacity to sequester …

Stemflow is a spatially localized point input of precipitation and solutes at the plant stem and
is of hydrological and ecological significance in forested and agricultural ecosystems. The …

The main process by which dissolved organic matter (DOM) is retained in forest soils is likely
to be sorption in the mineral horizons that adds to stabilized organic matter (OM) pools. The …

Forest soils represent a substantial portion of the terrestrial carbon (C) pool, and changes to
soil C cycling are globally significant not only for C sequestration but also for sustaining …

Photosynthetically fixed CO2 is converted into terrestrial bio (macro) molecules and
sequestered as soil organic matter (SOM) by (bio) chemical and physical stabilization …

Dissolved organic matter (DOM) is often considered the most labile portion of organic matter
in soil and to be negligible with respect to the accumulation of soil C. In this short review, we …

New conceptual models that highlight the importance of environmental, rather than
molecular, controls on soil organic matter affect interpretations of organic matter (OM) …