Soil mesofauna promote mineral-associated organic matter formation under ambient and future climates The diverse life strategies of soil fauna may substantially affect the persistence of carbon (C) in soil. However, experimental evidence linking soil …

‼️ Article out in AEE🪱🐜

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We provide field-based evidence that #soil #fauna beyond #earthworms significantly affect the persistence of #soil organic matter. #POM #MAOM #climate #landuse

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Un(der)explored links between plant diversity and particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in soil - Nature Communications Plant-diversity effects on particulate and mineral-associated organic matter in soil remain underexplored. The authors propose that elucidating the mechanisms underlying these effects can help explain...

‼️In case you missed our article published during the summer break:
nature.com/articles/s41...

The mechanisms underlying #plant-diversity effects on #soil #C remain elusive.

We argue that #POM + #MAOM are key to disentangling these effects.

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Vulnerability of mineral-organic associations in the rhizosphere Nature Communications - Organic matter associated with reactive soil minerals is assumed to be the most persistent terrestrial carbon pool. This work introduces a novel mechanistic framework for...

PAPER 🚨 Organic matter associated with reactive #soil minerals (aka #MAOM) is often assumed to be the most persistence terrestrial #carbon pool. Here we introduce a new mechanistic framework for the vulnerability of this vast #carbon reservoir to disruption in the #rhizosphere. rdcu.be/euik0

(c) The Jena Experiment

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Un(der)explored links between #plant #diversity and #POM and #MAOM in soil

nature.com/articles/s41...

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Sparked by a question by @mud-maik.bsky.social: 2014 I published a study that nicely demonstrats how much particulate organic matter #POM can be contained in a small size fraction <6.3µm!!!, many people now bluntly call mineral-associated organic matter #MAOM, check it out: tinyurl.com/POMvsMAOM

Nice 😍 #soil #research paper from Lancaster Environment Centre (UK):

#MAOM formation (= C stabilization) is primarily driven by soil mineralogy.

Low C:N ☘️litter shows less(!) efficient MAOM formation, due to lower microbial #CUE.

High C:N 🌾litter priming more #SOM.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Diachronic assessment of soil organic C and N dynamics under long-term no-till cropping systems in the tropical upland of Cambodia Abstract. No-till (NT) cropping systems have been proposed as a strategy to combat soil degradation by storing soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN). We quantified the impacts of NT croppi...

#JustOut Congrat Vira Leng for this 1st PhD #openaccess paper in the EGU SOIL journal 👏! A nice study on 13-year-old trials in 🇰🇭 with cassava, maize🌽or soybean #conservationagriculture #soilorganiccarbon #soilfractions #MAOM #POM

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‼Now out in @NatureComms

doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

In our review we show that #diverse🐛🐌#soil faunal taxa🐜🪱can fundamentally affect labile and stabilized #SOM, with huge research gaps remaining

#POM #MAOM #earthworms #springtails #mites #woodlice #nematodes #beetles #snails et al.