This manuscript reviews the potential impact of residue management, conservation tillage
and soil restoration on carbon sequestration in world soils. The greenhouse effect is among …

Organic-mineral soil particles are formed and altered as a result of pedogenic processes
and anthropogenic impacts on soils. They can be isolated from bulk soil samples by physical …

The soil organic matter (SOM) pool encompasses plant, animal, and microbial residues in all
stages of decay and a diversity of heterogeneous organic substances intimately associated …

Frequent charcoal findings together with black carbon concentrations in the soil organic
matter (SOM) of up to 35% provided evidence that black carbon is important for the SOM …

ABSTRACT A previously undescribed plant-microbe interaction between a root-colonizing
Streptomyces species, S. lydicus WYEC108, and the legume Pisum sativum is described …

Soils contain significant amounts of black carbon (BC) from biomass and fossil fuel
combustion. However, its origin, morphology, and chemistry have remained obscure. Here …

This chapter focuses on carbon storage in primary and secondary organomineral
complexes, including the distribution, chemical composition and decomposability of organic …

Soil structure is the arrangement of particles in soil and the particles of sand, silt, and clay,
bound together into aggregates of various sizes by organic and inorganic materials. The …

Soil organic matter can be intimately associated with mineral particles of various sizes. For
structural studies, soil organic matter can be isolated in particle size fractions after complete …

In order to be able to avoid artefacts during fractionation of soil into primary particles,
knowledge is required about the soil organic matter (SOM) behaviour when dispersing soil …