Soil horizon variation: A review

AE Hartemink, Y Zhang, JG Bockheim, N Curi… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil horizons reflect soil processes and convey information about past and present soil
conditions. The identification and delineation of soil horizons are affected by lateral and …

Missing phosphorus legacy of the Anthropocene: Quantifying residual phosphorus in the biosphere

AJ Margenot, S Zhou, S Xu, LM Condron… - Global change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
A defining feature of the Anthropocene is the distortion of the biosphere phosphorus (P)
cycle. A relatively sudden acceleration of input fluxes without a concomitant increase in …

The nitrogen legacy: emerging evidence of nitrogen accumulation in anthropogenic landscapes

KJ Van Meter, NB Basu, JJ Veenstra… - Environmental …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Watershed and global-scale nitrogen (N) budgets indicate that the majority of 1 the N
surplus in anthropogenic landscapes does not reach the coastal oceans. While there 2 is …

Clay illuviation provides a long-term sink for C sequestration in subsoils

G Torres-Sallan, RPO Schulte, GJ Lanigan… - Scientific Reports, 2017 - nature.com
Soil plays a key role in the global carbon (C) cycle. Most current assessments of SOC stocks
and the guidelines given by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focus on …

How does uncertainty of soil organic carbon stock affect the calculation of carbon budgets and soil carbon credits for croplands in the US Midwest?

W Zhou, K Guan, B Peng, A Margenot, DK Lee, J Tang… - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Cropland carbon budget depicts the amount of carbon flowing in and out of agroecosystems
and the changes in carbon stocks of soil and living biomass during the same period. Soil …

Locally enhanced digital soil mapping in support of a bottom-up approach is more accurate than conventional soil mapping and top-down digital soil mapping

MP Bohn, BA Miller - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a regional digital soil mapping (DSM) product that used a locally
enhanced method in support of a bottom-up approach to create spatial soil predictions that …

A deeper look at the relationship between root carbon pools and the vertical distribution of the soil carbon pool

R Dietzel, M Liebman, S Archontoulis - Soil, 2017 - soil.copernicus.org
Plant root material makes a substantial contribution to the soil organic carbon (C) pool, but
this contribution is disproportionate below 20 cm where 30% of root mass and 50% of soil …

Carbon storage in cropland soils: Insights from Iowa, United States

J Jordahl, M McDaniel, BA Miller, M Thompson… - Land, 2023 - mdpi.com
The restoration of soil organic matter (SOM, as measured by soil organic carbon (SOC))
within the world's agricultural soils is imperative to sustaining crop production and restoring …

From prairie to crop: Spatiotemporal dynamics of surface soil organic carbon stocks over 167 years in Illinois, USA

N Li, S Zhou, AJ Margenot - Science of The Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantifying spatiotemporal dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks is needed to
understand the impact of land use change and can help target carbon sequestration efforts …

Effects of soil type and depth on carbon distribution within soil macroaggregates from temperate grassland systems

G Torres-Sallan, RE Creamer, GJ Lanigan, B Reidy… - Geoderma, 2018 - Elsevier
Grassland soils have been highlighted as a global soil carbon (C) sink, and have the
potential to sequester additional C. Sequestration of C can occur through incorporation of …