Microbial carbon recycling – an underestimated process controlling soil carbon dynamics – Part 1: A long-term laboratory incubation experiment

• Published in: Biogeosciences Vol. 12; no. 20; pp. 5929 - 5940
• Main Authors: Basler, A., Dippold, M., Helfrich, M., Dyckmans, J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Katlenburg-Lindau Copernicus GmbH 19.10.2015; Copernicus Publications
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Analysis; Arable land; Biomass; Carbohydrates; Carbon; Carbon content; Carbon dioxide; Cell membranes; Dynamics; Exopolysaccharides; Experiments; Food chains; Food webs; Fucose; Galactose; Glucose; Grasslands; Incubation period; Isotopes; Land use; Lipopolysaccharides; Loam; Loam soils; Mannans; Mannose; Microorganisms; Organic matter; Organic soils; Recycling; Respiration; Rhamnose; Saccharides; Silt loam; Soil; Soil analysis; Soil carbon; Soil dynamics; Soil organic matter; Soil stabilization; Soils; Substrates; Sugar; Tracers; Germany

Independent of its chemical structure carbon (C) persists in soil for several decades, controlled by stabilization and recycling. To disentangle the importance of the two factors on the turnover dynamics of soil sugars, an important compound of soil organic matter (SOM), a 3-year incubation experime...