Through the eye of the needle: a review of isotope approaches to quantify microbial processes mediating soil carbon balance

E Paterson, AJ Midwood, P Millard - New Phytologist, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
For soils in carbon balance, losses of soil carbon from biological activity are balanced by
organic inputs from vegetation. Perturbations, such as climate or land use change, have the …

Carbon and nitrogen recycling from microbial necromass to cope with C: N stoichiometric imbalance by priming

J Cui, Z Zhu, X Xu, S Liu, DL Jones, Y Kuzyakov… - Soil Biology and …, 2020 - Elsevier
The impact of increasing amounts of labile C input on priming effects (PE) on soil organic
matter (SOM) mineralization remains unclear, particularly under anoxic conditions and …

Plant–microbiota interactions as a driver of the mineral turnover in the rhizosphere

RA Terrazas, C Giles, E Paterson… - Advances in applied …, 2016 - Elsevier
A major challenge facing agriculture in the 21st century is the need to increase the
productivity of cultivated land while reducing the environmentally harmful consequences of …

Effects of simulated nitrogen deposition on soil respiration components and their temperature sensitivities in a semiarid grassland

C Zhang, D Niu, SJ Hall, H Wen, X Li, H Fu… - Soil Biology and …, 2014 - Elsevier
Nitrogen (N) deposition to semiarid ecosystems is increasing globally, yet few studies have
investigated the ecological consequences of N enrichment in these ecosystems …

Turnover of soil organic matter and of microbial biomass under C3–C4 vegetation change: consideration of 13C fractionation and preferential substrate utilization

E Blagodatskaya, T Yuyukina, S Blagodatsky… - Soil Biology and …, 2011 - Elsevier
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 …

Ecosystem variability and early human habitats in eastern Africa

CR Magill, GM Ashley… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
The role of savannas during the course of early human evolution has been debated for
nearly a century, in part because of difficulties in characterizing local ecosystems from fossil …

Thawing permafrost increases old soil and autotrophic respiration in tundra: Partitioning ecosystem respiration using δ13C and ∆14C

CE Hicks Pries, EAG Schuur… - Global Change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Ecosystem respiration (Reco) is one of the largest terrestrial carbon (C) fluxes. The effect of
climate change on Reco depends on the responses of its autotrophic and heterotrophic …

Differential responses of auto‐and heterotrophic soil respiration to water and nitrogen addition in a semiarid temperate steppe

L Yan, S Chen, J Huang, G Lin - Global Change Biology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating how autotrophic (SRA), heterotrophic (SRH) and total soil respiration (SRTOT)
respond differently to changes of environmental factors is critical to get an understanding of …

Net ecosystem exchange modifies the relationship between the autotrophic and heterotrophic components of soil respiration with abiotic factors in prairie grasslands

N Gomez‐Casanovas, R Matamala… - Global Change …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the relationships of net ecosystem carbon exchange (NEE), soil
temperature, and moisture with soil respiration rate and its components at a grassland …

Carbon dioxide, ground air and carbon cycling in Gibraltar karst

DP Mattey, TC Atkinson, JA Barker, R Fisher… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2016 - Elsevier
We put forward a general conceptual model of CO 2 behaviour in the vadose zone of karst
aquifers, based on physical principles of air flow through porous media and caves …