Carbon routes from decomposing plant residues and living roots into soil food webs assessed with 13C labelling

By Sara Elfstrand, J. Lagerlöf, Katarina Hedlund, A. Mårtensson. 2008

87 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Soil Science

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In Ecology

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. Liliane Ruess
3. S. Scheu
4. J. Pausch
5. O. Schmidt
6. C. Thoms
7. E. Kandeler
8. A. Brauman

In Soil Science

1. Y. Kuzyakov
2. J. Pausch
3. Liliane Ruess
4. O. Schmidt
5. S. Scheu
6. C. Thoms
7. G. Gleixner
8. S. Marhan

Citations in the corpus

• Dynamics of bacterial communities in relation to soil aggregate formation during the decomposition of 13C-labelled rice straw (2012, background): “Gram-negative bacteria are thought to be r-strategist/copiotrophic organisms with a high growth rate, using labile substrate; actinobacteria and most Gram-positive bacteria on the other hand, are thought to be Kstrategist/oligotrophic organisms that are better decomposers of less labile soil organic”
• A critical review of current methods in earthworm ecology: From individuals to populations (2010, background): “Where such integrative studies have been carried out significant advances in our understanding have been made [30,37].”
• Small but active – pool size does not matter for carbon incorporation in below‐ground food webs (2016, background): “…systems were addressed by isotopic labelling of plants or litter (Leake et al. 2006; Ruf, Kuzyakov & Lopatovskaya 2006; Ostle et al. 2007; Elfstrand et al. 2008), suggesting that the majority of soil animals rely on root-derived sources rather than on litter (Albers, Schaefer & Scheu…”
• Seasonal differences in tree species influence on soil microbial communities (2013, background): “13C labeled leaf litter studies have also identified Gram-positive bacteria as the most abundant microbial group with the highest incorporation of litter-derived C (Elfstrand et al., 2008; Rubino et al., 2010).”
• Rhizosphere fauna: the functional and structural diversity of intimate interactions of soil fauna with plant roots (2009, unknown): “…conventional wisdom, recent evidence suggest that a major part of the soil animal food web strongly relies on the C-inputs from plant roots and less so on the carbon and nutrient inputs via leaf litter (Albers et al. 2006; Larsen et al. 2007; Pollierer et al. 2007), but see Elfstrand et al. (2008).”