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  • Stewardship of soil carbon sits at the nexus of efforts to mitigate climate change, improve soil health and increase climate resiliency of agricultural production. Unlocking the full potential of soils to support a sustainable future requires embracing the unique and contrasting realities of soil carbon dynamics in arid versus humid systems.

    • M. Francesca Cotrufo
    • Jocelyn M. Lavallee
    Comments & Opinion
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 15, P: 240-242

  • Agricultural soil C dynamics under climate change are difficult to predict. Here, the authors report that experimental warming increases soil organic C stocks in conservation agriculture but not in conventional agriculture, which appears driven by soil microbial responses to no tillage and C inputs from the crops.

    • Jing Tian
    • Jennifer A. J. Dungait
    • Jizhong Zhou
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 15, P: 1-16

  • Arctic warming is thought to lead to large losses in soil carbon stocks. Here a 35-year-long fertilization experiment in Alaska shows that increased shrub productivity and changes in plant–microbial feedbacks may eventually reverse trends of carbon loss and restore the soil carbon sink.

    • Megan B. Machmuller
    • Laurel M. Lynch
    • Matthew D. Wallenstein
    Research
    Nature Climate Change
    Volume: 14, P: 1178-1185

  • Soil organic matter is a large global carbon pool. Isotopic labelling of litter in the lab and the field reveals that soil organic matter forms from labile organic compounds and litter fragments early and late in decomposition, respectively.

    • M. Francesca Cotrufo
    • Jennifer L. Soong
    • William J. Parton
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 8, P: 776-779

  • Land management strategies for enhancing soil carbon sequestration need to be tailored to different soil types, depending on how much organic matter is stored in pools of mineral-associated and particulate organic matter, suggests an analysis of soil organic matter across Europe.

    • M. Francesca Cotrufo
    • Maria Giovanna Ranalli
    • Emanuele Lugato
    Research
    Nature Geoscience
    Volume: 12, P: 989-994

  • One aspect of how terrestrial ecosystems will respond to rising levels of CO2in the atmosphere is potential changes in the decomposition rate of leaf litter - a central factor in plant growth. It had been thought that the decomposition rate would decline in high CO2conditions, but this long-established hypothesis was laid to rest at a meeting in September of plant physiologists, ecologists and soil scientists.

    • Richard J. Norby
    • M. Francesca Cotrufo
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 396, P: 17-18