Soil-carbon preservation through habitat constraints and biological limitations on decomposer activity

By K. Ekschmitt, E. Kandeler, C. Poll, A. Brune, F. Buscot, M. Friedrich, G. Gleixner, Anton Hartmann, Matthias Kästner, S. Marhan and 3 more. 2008

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Biochar: Carbon Sequestration, Land Remediation, and Impacts on Soil Microbiology (2012, background): “…its inherent recalcitrance and limited accessibility through soil particle envelopment (Brodowski et al., 2006) acting as a barrier to enzymes (Ekschmitt et al., 2008), the impacts of biochar on soil biogeochemistry (Liu et al., 2009) and microbial activity are limited by its ultimate…”
The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “2008); microbial accessibility (Ekschmitt et al. 2008), especially to organic matter held in micropores (van Loosdrecht et al.”
Viruses in soil: Nano-scale undead drivers of microbial life, biogeochemical turnover and ecosystem functions (2018, background): “Further, the decrease in animal population density with soil depth is much faster than that of bacteria and fungi (Ekschmitt et al., 2008; Potapov et al., 2017) and animal populations decline to near zero at a depth of 20–30 cm (Brady and Weil, 2000) or 50 cm (Potapov et al.”