Soil stores more carbon than Earth's atmosphere and plants combined, which makes the speed of soil carbon's decomposition an ...

Since the decomposition rate of soil organic carbon (SOC) varies as a function of environmental conditions, global climate change is expected to alter SOC decomposition dynamics, and the resulting ...

Organic carbon decomposition in soil varies significantly and in regional patterns, driven in part by factors such as soil ...

Social interactions in microbial communities could explain how much carbon and nitrogen gets stored in soils -- providing new insight for climate change research. The world's soils store on the order ...