To respect the Paris agreement targeting a limitation of global warming below 2° C by 2100,
and possibly below 1.5° C, drastic reductions of greenhouse gas emissions are mandatory …

Numerical models are crucial to understand and/or predict past and future soil organic
carbon dynamics. For those models aiming at prediction, validation is a critical step to gain …

Soil microbes make up a significant portion of the genetic diversity and play a critical role in
belowground carbon (C) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Soil microbial diversity and …

Physical and chemical stabilisation mechanisms are now known to play a critical role in
controlling carbon (C) storage in mineral soils, leading to suggestions that climate warming …

Promotion of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration as a potential solution to support
climate change mitigation as well as more sustainable farming systems is rising steeply. As …

Soil organic matter (SOM) stocks, decomposition and persistence are largely the product of
controls that act locally. Yet the controls are shaped and interact at multiple spatiotemporal …

Abstract The “Grain for Green” programme has had a significant impact on land use change
and carbon and nitrogen balance. However, it is unlear how vegetation restoration affects …

Microbial necromass carbon (MNC) and glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP) are stable
microbe-derived sources of carbon (C) in soils. MNC constitutes a considerable portion of …

Soils store the largest amount of carbon (C) in the biosphere, and the C pool in soil is critical
to the global C balance. Numerous microbial models have been developed over the last few …

Terrestrial ecosystems regulate Earth's climate through water, energy, and biogeochemical
transformations. Despite a key role in regulating the Earth system, terrestrial ecology has …