Evidence for the primacy of living root inputs, not root or shoot litter, in forming soil organic carbon - Sokol, Noah W.; Kuebbing, Sara. E.; Karlsen‐Ayala, Elena; Bradford, Mark A. (The New phytologist, 2019)
Keywords: Animals; C4 plants; Carbon; Carbon Cycle; Connecticut; Cycles; field experimentation; Food Chain; Food chains; Food webs; forest litter; Forests; grasses; Introduced Species; Litter; litter inputs; living roots; microbial biomass; Microorganisms; Minerals; natural‐abundance 13C tracer; Organic carbon; Organic soils; Plant Roots - chemistry; Plant Roots - metabolism; Plant Shoots - chemistry; Plant Shoots - metabolism; Poaceae; rhizodeposition; roots; shoots; Soil; Soil - chemistry; soil carbon formation; soil food webs; Soil Microbiology; Soil microorganisms; soil organic carbon; soil organic matter; Soils; Tracking; Trees; Understory; Connecticut; natural-abundance 13C tracer; rhizodeposition; litter inputs; microbial biomass; soil carbon formation; living roots; carbon cycle; soil organic matter