Predicting and mitigating changes in soil carbon (C) stocks under global change requires a
coherent understanding of the factors regulating soil organic matter (SOM) formation and …

The soil microbial carbon pump (MCP) conceptualizes a sequestration mechanism based
on the process of microbial production of a set of new organic compounds, which carry the …

Soil organic matter (SOM) accumulation is different in certain soil groups with differences in
parent material, degree of weathering and mineral composition. These differences are …

Amino sugars are important indices for the contribution of soil microorganisms to soil organic
matter. Consequently, the past decade has seen a great increase in the number of studies …

Soil is a huge terrestrial carbon pool, which has higher carbon storage than the sum of
atmospheric and terrestrial vegetation carbon. Small fluctuations in soil carbon pool can …

Soil organic matter (SOM) consists of a vast range of biomolecules, but their individual
contribution to the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and CO 2 release has eluded …

Photosynthetically fixed CO2 is converted into terrestrial bio (macro) molecules and
sequestered as soil organic matter (SOM) by (bio) chemical and physical stabilization …

Both forest-floor litter and roots are known to be involved in the formation of soil organic
carbon (SOC), but it remains elusive how the two contrasting types of plant carbon sources …

Current consensus on global climate change predicts warming trends with more
pronounced temperature changes in winter than summer in the Northern Hemisphere at …

Two processes contribute to changes of the δ13C signature in soil pools: 13C fractionation
per se and preferential microbial utilization of various substrates with different δ13C …