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Carbon fluxes from plants through soil organisms determined by field 13CO2 pulse-labelling in an upland grassland

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It is explained how the new insights gained from these studies emphasise the complex temporal dynamics of recent photosynthate entering the soil through different pathways and the role of multi-trophic interactions between soil biota in determining the fate of recently fixed carbon in grasslands.
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This article is published in Applied Soil Ecology.The article was published on 2006-09-01. It has received 185 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil organic matter & Soil ecology.

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Time lag between photosynthesis and carbon dioxide efflux from soil: a review of mechanisms and controls

TL;DR: It is concluded that studies of CO2 fluxes from soil, especially in ecosystems with a high contribution of root-derived CO2, should consider photosynthesis as one of the main drivers of C fluxes, and calls for incorporating photosynthesis in soil C turnover models.
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The fat that matters: Soil food web analysis using fatty acids and their carbon stable isotope signature

TL;DR: Systematic patterns and processes underlying variations in the composition of fatty acids and their 13C/12C ratio are described and areas in which future experimentation can lead to progress in soil food web analysis are identified.
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Combining biomarker with stable isotope analyses for assessing the transformation and turnover of soil organic matter

TL;DR: It is concluded that calculated MRTs from C3/C4 vegetation changes are currently underestimated, because, there is also a the formation of stable C4-derived C pools that did not reach steady-state equilibrium within few decades.
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High diversity in DNA of soil bacteria.

TL;DR: The results show that the major part of DNA isolated from the bacterial fraction of soil is very heterogeneous, with a C0t1/2 value corresponding to about 4,000 completely different genomes of standard soil bacteria.
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Rapid Method for Coextraction of DNA and RNA from Natural Environments for Analysis of Ribosomal DNA- and rRNA-Based Microbial Community Composition

TL;DR: A rapid protocol for the extraction of total nucleic acids from environmental samples facilitates concomitant assessment of microbial 16S rRNA diversity by PCR and reverse transcription-PCR amplification from a single extraction.
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Carbon losses from all soils across England and Wales 1978-2003

TL;DR: The findings indicate that losses of soil carbon in England and Wales—and by inference in other temperate regions—are likely to have been offsetting absorption of carbon by terrestrial sinks, suggesting a link to climate change.
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Computational Improvements Reveal Great Bacterial Diversity and High Metal Toxicity in Soil

TL;DR: In this article, the abundance distribution and total diversity of soil bacterial communities were deciphered using reassociation kinetics for bacterial community DNA from pristine and metal-polluted soils, showing that a power law best described the abundance distributions.
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Carbon input by plants into the soil. Review.

TL;DR: It is shown, that only the tracer methods provided adequate results for the whole below-ground C translocation, which included roots, exudates and other organic substances, quickly decomposable by soil microorganisms, and CO 2 produced by root respiration.
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