The deep soil organic carbon response to global change

CE Hicks Pries, R Ryals, B Zhu, K Min… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Over 70% of soil organic carbon (SOC) is stored at a depth greater than 20 cm belowground.
A portion of this deep SOC actively cycles on annual to decadal timescales and is sensitive …

Deep-C storage: Biological, chemical and physical strategies to enhance carbon stocks in agricultural subsoils

ES Button, J Pett-Ridge, DV Murphy, Y Kuzyakov… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to their substantial volume, subsoils contain more of the total soil carbon (C) pool than
topsoils. Much of this C is thousands of years old, suggesting that subsoils offer …

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

NW Sokol, MA Bradford - Nature Geoscience, 2019 - nature.com
The relative contributions of aboveground versus belowground plant carbon inputs to the
stable soil organic carbon pool are the subject of much debate—with direct implications for …

Soil microbiomes with distinct assemblies through vertical soil profiles drive the cycling of multiple nutrients in reforested ecosystems

S Jiao, W Chen, J Wang, N Du, Q Li, G Wei - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Soil microbiomes play an important role in the services and functioning of
terrestrial ecosystems. However, little is known of their vertical responses to restoration …

Microplastic transport in soil by earthworms

MC Rillig, L Ziersch, S Hempel - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Despite great general benefits derived from plastic use, accumulation of plastic material in
ecosystems, and especially microplastic, is becoming an increasing environmental concern …

[HTML][HTML] Membrane inlet mass spectrometry method (REOX/MIMS) to measure 15N-nitrate in isotope-enrichment experiments

X Lin, K Lu, AK Hardison, Z Liu, X Xu, D Gao, J Gong… - Ecological …, 2021 - Elsevier
Using 15 N stable isotope as a tracer to quantify N transformation rates in isotope-
enrichment experiments improves understanding of the N cycle in various ecosystems …

Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon

NW Sokol, SE Kuebbing, E Karlsen‐Ayala… - New …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is primarily formed from plant inputs, but the relative carbon (C)
contributions from living root inputs (ie rhizodeposits) vs litter inputs (ie root+ shoot litter) are …

Trends in microbial community composition and function by soil depth

D Naylor, R McClure, J Jansson - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microbial communities play important roles in soil health, contributing to processes such as
the turnover of organic matter and nutrient cycling. As soil edaphic properties such as …

Drought and host selection influence bacterial community dynamics in the grass root microbiome

D Naylor, S DeGraaf, E Purdom… - The ISME …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Root endophytes have been shown to have important roles in determining host fitness under
periods of drought stress, and yet the effect of drought on the broader root endosphere …

The ratio of Gram-positive to Gram-negative bacterial PLFA markers as an indicator of carbon availability in organic soils

N Fanin, P Kardol, M Farrell, MC Nilsson… - Soil Biology and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite recent progress in understanding soil microbial responses to carbon (C) limitation,
the functional shifts in microbial community structure associated with decreasing soil C …