A new study has shed light on how soil microorganisms, which are crucial to the carbon cycle, adapt to different levels of temperature and organic matter availability. In this study, researchers ...

as organic carbon, which is either stored as plant biomass or in soil, or is decomposed back to CO2 through plant and soil respiration. This CO2 can return to the atmosphere or enter rivers ...

In soil science and biogeochemistry mineralization ... Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial. Global Biogeochemical Cycles 12, 231 ...

A research team has shown that methanogens, micro-organisms ubiquitous in low-oxygen environments like aquifers, soil and even permafrost, can propel their growth by dissolving calcium carbonate, one ...

In an article featured in Science China Earth Sciences, researchers from Tianjin University elucidate the coupling relationship between soil fungi and reactive minerals in ecosystems by utilizing ...

Particulate soil carbon may be more vulnerable to microbial ... consists of partially decomposed plant fragments that often cycle on annual to decadal timescales. By analyzing global data on ...

A new study published in Ecological Processes by researchers at the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of ...

University of Wisconsin professor of soil science Jingyi Huang and data scientist Maria Oros worked over the summer on a new ...

A University of Nebraska-Lincoln research team has identified new microscopic players in the global carbon cycle, a discovery ...

So we have figured there would be more carbon stored in the soil. But actually, carbon levels in the soil didn't change over 20 years, though these regenerative management practices are still ...

soil and sediment, as part of what is called ‘the global carbon cycle.’ A change in any of these fluxes could have wide-ranging impacts on ecosystems and our climate. The IAEA Environment Laboratories ...