Soil carbon storage informed by particulate and mineral-associated organic matter
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Recent research suggests SOC is more dynamic than once believed, with stabilization and turnover influenced by climate, microbial activity, and land use.
“Recent research suggests SOC is more dynamic than once believed, with stabilization and turnover influenced by climate, microbial activity, and land use (Cotrufo et al., 2019;Hansen et al., 2024).”
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Globally grass and cropland soils are highly degraded and thus have a long-term sequestration potential.
“However, globally grass and cropland soils are highly degraded and thus have a long-term sequestration potential (Cotrufo et al., 2019;Yang et al., 2019;Lavallee et al., 2020).”
From Ecosystem Impacts and Productive Capacity of a Multi-Species Pastured Livestock System (2020) · cites this paper as Cotrufo et al., 2019
Carbon stock alone does not allow conclusions about soil C storage capacity, which can be better informed by the relative distribution of soil C between MAOM and POM.
“Further, carbon stock alone does not allow us to make conclusions about soil C storage capacity, which can be better informed by the relative distribution of soil C between mineralassociated OM (MAOM) and particulate OM (POM) (Cotrufo et al., 2019).”
From Ecosystem Impacts and Productive Capacity of a Multi-Species Pastured Livestock System (2020) · cites this paper as Cotrufo et al., 2019
MAOM saturates in soils because of the finite availability of mineral surfaces to sorb OM.
“MAOM also saturates in soils because of the finite availability of mineral surfaces to sorb OM.”
From Ecosystem Impacts and Productive Capacity of a Multi-Species Pastured Livestock System (2020) · cites this paper as Cotrufo et al., 2019
Results presented by Cotrufo et al. (2019) and others lead us to question the certainty of soil C saturation in grassland soils.
“Further, results presented by Cotrufo et al. (2019) and others (West and Six, 2007;Jagadamma et al., 2014;Nicoloso et al., 2018) lead us to question the certainty of soil C saturation in grassland soils.”
From Ecosystem Impacts and Productive Capacity of a Multi-Species Pastured Livestock System (2020) · cites this paper as Cotrufo et al., 2019
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“However, the authors also suggest that POM can be indefinitely accrued in soils irrespective of MAOM saturation and, further, that most grassland soils are unlikely to be “saturated” with respect to MAOM-C.”
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- Authors
- Cotrufo, M. F., Ranalli, M. G., Haddix, M. L., Six, J., & Lugato, E.
- Affiliations
- Colorado State University (US)
- University of Perugia (IT)
- ETH Zurich (CH)
- Joint Research Centre (IT)
- Corresponding author
- Cotrufo, M. Francesca
- Venue
- Nature Geoscience
- Published
- 2019-11-18
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 989-994
- ISSN
- 1752-0894 (ISSN-L)
- 1752-0908
- OpenAlex
- W2985814312
- Cited by
- 1,901
- References
- 6
- Citations by year
- 2026: 456 · 2025: 476 · 2024: 342 · 2023: 259 · 2022: 187 · 2021: 120 · 2020: 57 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 72.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Nature Geoscience (publishedVersion)
- Joint Research Centre (European Commission) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- OECD Co-operative Research Programme: Biological Resource Management for Sustainable Agricultural Systems a fellowship
- EC | Joint Research Centre
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Plant Science › Mycorrhizal Fungi and Plant Interactions
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Keywords
- soil carbon storage, mineral-associated organic matter, particulate organic matter, C/N ratio, nitrogen requirements, carbon sequestration, grassland, topsoil carbon stocks, land management, Europe
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