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 …

Soil microbiota as game-changers in restoration of degraded lands

O Coban, GB De Deyn, M van der Ploeg - Science, 2022 - science.org
Land degradation reduces soil functioning and, consequently, the services that soil
provides. Soil hydrological functions are critical to combat soil degradation and promote soil …

Persistence of soil organic carbon caused by functional complexity

J Lehmann, CM Hansel, C Kaiser, M Kleber… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Soil organic carbon management has the potential to aid climate change mitigation through
drawdown of atmospheric carbon dioxide. To be effective, such management must account …

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 …

Deconstructing the microbial necromass continuum to inform soil carbon sequestration

KM Buckeridge, C Creamer, J Whitaker - Functional Ecology, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Microbial necromass is a large, dynamic and persistent component of soil organic carbon,
the dominant terrestrial carbon pool. Quantification of necromass carbon stocks and its …

Life in dry soils: effects of drought on soil microbial communities and processes

JP Schimel - Annual review of ecology, evolution, and …, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Throughout Earth's history, drought has been a common crisis in terrestrial ecosystems; in
human societies, it can cause famine, one of the Four Horsemen of the apocalypse. As the …

Trophic interactions and the drivers of microbial community assembly

M Gralka, R Szabo, R Stocker, OX Cordero - Current Biology, 2020 - cell.com
Despite numerous surveys of gene and species content in heterotrophic microbial
communities, such as those found in animal guts, oceans, or soils, it is still unclear whether …

Microaggregates in soils

KU Totsche, W Amelung, MH Gerzabek… - Journal of Plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
All soils harbor microaggregates, ie, compound soil structures smaller than 250 µm. These
microaggregates are composed of diverse mineral, organic and biotic materials that are …

Soil aggregate microbial communities: towards understanding microbiome interactions at biologically relevant scales

RL Wilpiszeski, JA Aufrecht, ST Retterer… - Applied and …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Soils contain a tangle of minerals, water, nutrients, gases, plant roots, decaying organic
matter, and microorganisms which work together to cycle nutrients and support terrestrial …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of extreme weather events as a consequence of climate change on the soil moisture and on the quality of the soil environment and agriculture–A …

K Furtak, A Wolińska - Catena, 2023 - Elsevier
Climate change is progressing and is already visible to the naked eye around the world.
Hydrological events associated with climate change, ie floods and droughts, have reached …