Soil organic matter formation, persistence, and functioning: A synthesis of current understanding to inform its conservation and regeneration

MF Cotrufo, JM Lavallee - Advances in agronomy, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil organic matter (SOM) provides vital services to humanity. Its preservation and further
accrual are key to sustain food production and avoid an irreversible climate crisis. Here we …

Global distribution, formation and fate of mineral‐associated soil organic matter under a changing climate: A trait‐based perspective

NW Sokol, ED Whalen, A Jilling… - Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic matter (SOM) is the largest actively cycling reservoir of terrestrial carbon (C),
and the majority of SOM in Earth's mineral soils (~ 65%) is mineral‐associated organic …

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 …

No detectable upper limit of mineral‐associated organic carbon in temperate agricultural soils

N Begill, A Don, C Poeplau - Global Change Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration is a promising climate change mitigation option. In
this context, the formation of the relatively long‐lived mineral‐associated organic carbon …

Can large herbivores enhance ecosystem carbon persistence?

JA Kristensen, JC Svenning, K Georgiou… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022 - cell.com
There is growing interest in aligning the wildlife conservation and restoration agenda with
climate change mitigation goals. However, the presence of large herbivores tends to reduce …

Improved global-scale predictions of soil carbon stocks with Millennial Version 2

RZ Abramoff, B Guenet, H Zhang, K Georgiou… - Soil Biology and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Soil carbon (C) models are used to predict C sequestration responses to climate and land
use change. Yet, the soil models embedded in Earth system models typically do not …

Is the climate change mitigation effect of enhanced silicate weathering governed by biological processes?

S Vicca, DS Goll, M Hagens, J Hartmann… - Global change …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A number of negative emission technologies (NETs) have been proposed to actively remove
CO2 from the atmosphere, with enhanced silicate weathering (ESW) as a relatively new NET …

Biological mechanisms may contribute to soil carbon saturation patterns

ME Craig, MA Mayes, BN Sulman… - Global Change …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) storage is a key strategy to mitigate rising atmospheric
CO2, yet SOC pools often appear to saturate, or increase at a declining rate, as carbon (C) …

Increasing riverine export of dissolved organic carbon from China

Y Yan, R Lauerwald, X Wang, P Regnier… - Global Change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
River transport of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) to the ocean is a crucial but poorly
quantified regional carbon cycle component. Large uncertainties remaining on the riverine …

Legacy effects of sorption determine the formation efficiency of mineral-associated soil organic matter

S Chen, T Klotzbücher, OJ Lechtenfeld… - … science & technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Sorption of dissolved organic matter (DOM) is one major pathway in the formation of mineral-
associated organic matter (MOM), but there is little information on how previous sorption …