Towards a global-scale soil climate mitigation strategy

W Amelung, D Bossio, W de Vries… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Sustainable soil carbon sequestration practices need to be rapidly scaled up and
implemented to contribute to climate change mitigation. We highlight that the major potential …

Mechanisms of soil organic carbon stability and its response to no‐till: A global synthesis and perspective

ZR Kan, WX Liu, WS Liu, R Lal, YP Dang… - Global Change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Mechanisms of soil organic carbon (SOC) stabilization have been widely studied due to their
relevance in the global carbon cycle. No‐till (NT) has been frequently adopted to sequester …

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 …

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

JM Lavallee, JL Soong, MF Cotrufo - Global change biology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Managing soil organic matter (SOM) stocks to address global change challenges requires
well‐substantiated knowledge of SOM behavior that can be clearly communicated between …

Digging deeper: A holistic perspective of factors affecting soil organic carbon sequestration in agroecosystems

R Lal - Global change biology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The global magnitude (Pg) of soil organic carbon (SOC) is 677 to 0.3‐m, 993 to 0.5‐m, and
1,505 to 1‐m depth. Thus,~ 55% of SOC to 1‐m lies below 0.3‐m depth. Soils of …

Soil organic matter in major pedogenic soil groups

I Kögel-Knabner, W Amelung - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation is different in certain soil groups with differences in
parent material, degree of weathering and mineral composition. These differences are …

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

MJ Castellano, KE Mueller, DC Olk… - Global change …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Labile,'high‐quality', plant litters are hypothesized to promote soil organic matter
(SOM) stabilization in mineral soil fractions that are physicochemically protected from rapid …

Carbon storage in an arable soil combining field measurements, aggregate turnover modeling and climate scenarios

S Qiu, H Yang, S Zhang, S Huang, S Zhao, X Xu, P He… - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying soil structural dynamics and aggregate turnover is important in understanding
soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks, particularly over decadal and larger time scales. Until now …

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models

Y Luo, A Ahlström, SD Allison, NH Batjes… - Global …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Soil carbon (C) is a critical component of Earth system models (ESMs), and its diverse
representations are a major source of the large spread across models in the terrestrial C …

Changes in soil microbial community, enzyme activities and organic matter fractions under long-term straw return in north-central China

S Zhao, K Li, W Zhou, S Qiu, S Huang, P He - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Field nutrients management practices influence soil biological properties and organic matter
fractions. A long-term experiment (30-year) was conducted to investigate changes in soil …