Soil organic matter decomposition and its interactions with climate depend on whether the
organic matter is associated with soil minerals. However, data limitations have hindered …

Soil organic carbon (SOC), as the largest terrestrial carbon pool, plays an important role in
global carbon (C) cycling, which may be significantly impacted by global changes such as …

Climate change is altering the frequency and severity of drought events. Recent evidence
indicates that drought may produce legacy effects on soil microbial communities. However, it …

Grasslands are a major terrestrial ecosystem type and store large amounts of soil organic
carbon (SOC) per unit area. Quantitative and mechanistic knowledge on the effects of …

Microbial carbon use efficiency (CUE) is an important factor driving soil carbon (C)
dynamics. However, microbial CUE could positively, negatively, or neutrally respond to …

Peatlands have acted as net CO2 sinks over millennia, exerting a global climate cooling
effect. Rapid warming at northern latitudes, where peatlands are abundant, can disturb their …

A major aim of ecology is to upscale attributes of individuals to understand processes at
population, community and ecosystem scales. Such attributes are typically described using …

Microbes are responsible for cycling carbon (C) through soils, and predicted changes in soil
C stocks under climate change are highly sensitive to shifts in the mechanisms assumed to …

Future climate may profoundly impact the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However, we
do not know well how the functioning of different types of grassland ecosystems is …

Branched glycerol dialkyl glycerol tetraethers (BrGDGTs) are a suite of orphan bacterial
membrane lipids commonly used as paleo-environmental proxies for mean annual air …