Search Results - "Plante, Alain F"
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Adsorption and Molecular Fractionation of Dissolved Organic Matter on Iron-Bearing Mineral Matrices of Varying Crystallinity
Published in Environmental science & technology (06-02-2018)“…Iron (Fe)-bearing mineral phases contribute disproportionately to adsorption of soil organic matter (SOM) due to their elevated chemical reactivity and…”
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Beyond clay: towards an improved set of variables for predicting soil organic matter content
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-02-2018)“…Improved quantification of the factors controlling soil organic matter (SOM) stabilization at continental to global scales is needed to inform projections of…”
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Parent material and vegetation influence bacterial community structure and nitrogen functional genes along deep tropical soil profiles at the Luquillo Critical Zone Observatory
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-01-2015)“…Microbial communities mediate every step of the soil nitrogen cycle, yet the structure and associated nitrogen cycle functions of soil microbial communities…”
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Beyond bulk: Density fractions explain heterogeneity in global soil carbon abundance and persistence
Published in Global change biology (01-02-2022)“…Understanding the controls on the amount and persistence of soil organic carbon (C) is essential for predicting its sensitivity to global change. The response…”
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Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-10-2007)“…Current estimates of soil C storage potential are based on models or factors that assume linearity between C input levels and C stocks at steady-state,…”
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Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons
Published in mBio (01-10-2019)“…While most bacterial and archaeal taxa living in surface soils remain undescribed, this problem is exacerbated in deeper soils, owing to the unique…”
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Improving understanding of soil organic matter dynamics by triangulating theories, measurements, and models
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-08-2018)“…Soil organic matter (SOM) turnover increasingly is conceptualized as a tension between accessibility to microorganisms and protection from decomposition via…”
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Soil and ecosystem respiration responses to grazing, watering and experimental warming chamber treatments across topographical gradients in northern Mongolia
Published in Geoderma (01-05-2016)“…Globally, soil respiration is one of the largest fluxes of carbon to the atmosphere and is known to be sensitive to climate change, representing a potential…”
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Long-term stabilization of deep soil carbon by fire and burial during early Holocene climate change
Published in Nature geoscience (01-06-2014)“…The Brady soil body was buried by loess deposits as a result of early Holocene climate change. Geochemical analyses suggest that large amounts of organic…”
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Soil Carbon Saturation: Linking Concept and Measurable Carbon Pools
Published in Soil Science Society of America journal (01-03-2008)“…The soil C saturation concept suggests a limit to whole soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation determined by inherent physicochemical characteristics of four…”
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Soil carbon saturation: Evaluation and corroboration by long-term incubations
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-07-2008)“…Although current assessments of agricultural management practices on soil organic C (SOC) dynamics are usually conducted without any explicit consideration of…”
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Patterns of substrate utilization during long-term incubations at different temperatures
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-11-2008)“…Microorganisms play key roles in biogeochemical cycling by facilitating the release of nutrients from organic compounds. In doing so, microbial communities use…”
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Biochemical changes across a carbon saturation gradient: Lignin, cutin, and suberin decomposition and stabilization in fractionated carbon pools
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-04-2012)“…Soils that exhibit soil organic carbon (SOC) saturation provide an opportunity to examine mechanisms of C storage in soils with increasingly limited…”
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Impact of soil texture on the distribution of soil organic matter in physical and chemical fractions
Published in Soil Science Society of America journal (01-01-2006)“…Previous research on the protection of soil organic C from decomposition suggests that soil texture affects soil C stocks. However, different pools of soil…”
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Role of Soil Characteristics on Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Organic Matter
Published in Soil Science Society of America journal (2011)“…The uncertainty associated with how projected climate change will affect global C cycling could have a large impact on predictions of soil C stocks. The…”
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Temporal and spatial variation in how vegetation alters the soil moisture response to climate manipulation
Published in Plant and soil (01-02-2012)“…Aims Soil water balance, key for ecosystem processes, is determined by multiple factors, including precipitation, temperature, slope and vegetation. How these…”
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Decomposition temperature sensitivity of isolated soil organic matter fractions
Published in Soil biology & biochemistry (01-11-2010)“…The general consensus is that a warming climate will result in the acceleration of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition, thus acting as a potential positive…”
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Improving estimates of maximal organic carbon stabilization by fine soil particles
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-03-2013)“…Organic carbon (C) associated with fine soil particles (<20 μm) is relatively stable and accounts for a large proportion of total soil organic C (SOC). The…”
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Effects of open-top passive warming chambers on soil respiration in the semi-arid steppe to taiga forest transition zone in Northern Mongolia
Published in Biogeochemistry (01-10-2013)“…The response of soil respiration to warming has been poorly studied in regions at higher latitude with low precipitation. We manipulated air temperature, soil…”
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Ecosystem services-based soil quality index tailored to the metropolitan environment for soil assessment and management
Published in The Science of the total environment (10-05-2022)“…The soils in urban greenery provide essential ecosystem services. However, only a few studies have assessed urban soil quality based on a comprehensive view of…”
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