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 …

The biogeochemical cycling of soil organic matter (SOM) plays a central role in regulating
soil health, water quality, carbon storage, and greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, many …

Soil habitats contain vast numbers of microorganisms and harbor a large portion of the
planet's biological diversity. Although high-throughput sequencing technologies continue to …

Phosphorus (P) is an indispensable element for all life on Earth and, during the past decade,
concerns about the future of its global supply have stimulated much research on soil P and …

The sequestration of carbon and nitrogen by clay-sized particles in soils is well established,
and clay content or mineral surface area has been used to estimate the sequestration …

Coastal wetlands host large and dynamic reservoirs of organic carbon (C) and are also
biogeochemical hotspots for a wide range of Fe (hydr-) oxides with different chemical …

The combined approach of incubating environmental samples with stable isotope-labeled
substrates followed by single-cell analyses through high-resolution secondary ion mass …

Soil structure is defined by many physical properties and functions. If detailed information
about the structure is known, a number of modelling techniques can be used to perform …

Wetlands cover a small portion of the world, but have disproportionate influence on global
carbon (C) sequestration, carbon dioxide and methane emissions, and aquatic C fluxes …

Soils represent a very complex material where mineral, organic and biological components
interact together to form a large 'biogeochemical interface'. In order to study this complex …