Soil organic matter (SOM) provides vital services to humanity. Its preservation and further
accrual are key to sustain food production and avoid an irreversible climate crisis. Here we …

Most of our terrestrial carbon (C) storage occurs in soils as organic C derived from living
organisms. Therefore, the fate of soil organic C (SOC) in response to changes in climate …

Soil is the largest terrestrial reservoir of organic carbon and is central for climate change
mitigation and carbon-climate feedbacks. Chemical and physical associations of soil carbon …

Global changes can alter plant inputs from both above‐and belowground, which, thus, may
differently affect soil carbon and microbial communities. However, the general patterns of …

Projecting biogeochemical responses to global environmental change requires multi-scaled
perspectives that consider organismal diversity, ecosystem processes, and global fluxes …

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 …

Ecological research networks functioning across climatic and edaphic gradients are critical
for improving predictive understanding of biogeochemical cycles at local through global …

Emerging insights into factors responsible for soil organic matter stabilization and
decomposition are being applied in a variety of contexts, but new tools are needed to …

Forest restoration increases organic carbon (OC) sequestration mainly via the additional
litter input and improvements in soil structure that result in biochemical and physical C …

Forest ecosystems are important global soil carbon (C) reservoirs, but their capacity to
sequester C is susceptible to climate change factors that alter the quantity and quality of C …