The contentious nature of soil organic matter
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...…by‐products of extraction and inaccurate proxies for naturally occurring SOM began to emerge as early as the 1840s (see references to Mulder and Eggertz in Baveye & Wander, 2019; Waksman, 1936), and they have more recently been dismissed by much of the SOM community (Lehmann & Kleber, 2015)....
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...MAOM can form in multiple ways, but the main pathways pertain to the min‐ eral adsorption of relatively low molecular weight compounds (Lehmann & Kleber, 2015), which are thought to be the main component of the most persistent portion of MAOM....
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...(2) ‘Selective preservation’, which is also called preferential decomposition25, is a newer concept informed by decomposition studies of leaves26,27 and visible plant fragments in soils28....
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...(2) The harsh alkaline treatment at pH 13 ionizes...
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...Reconciling models of soil organic matter At present, three competing models for the fate of organic inputs to soil can be distinguished: (1) classic ‘humification’, (2) ‘selective preservation’ and (3) ‘progressive decomposition’ (Fig....
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