Protection of soil carbon by microaggregates within earthworm casts

By Heleen Bossuyt, Johan Six, P. Hendrix. 2005

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Environmental Chemistry, Soil Science

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Earthworm populations in relation to soil organic matter dynamics and management in California tomato cropping systems (2009, background): “These newly formed microaggregates protect organic matter from decay, even after the breakdown of the macroaggregates in which they are formed, and thus represent a mechanism for the stabilization of SOM (Six et al., 2000; Bossuyt et al., 2005).”
Pandora's Box Contained Bait : The Global Problem of Introduced Earthworms (2008, background): “In the longer term, earthworm activities may increase sequestration of organic carbon in soil via protection from decomposition within water-stable aggregates resulting from earthworm castings (Bossuyt et al. 2005, Martin 1991).”
Role of Earthworms in Soil Fertility Maintenance through the Production of Biogenic Structures (2010, background): “It might become accessible again for the microflora once these are degraded into small fragments [42–44].”
Earthworm abundance and functional group diversity regulate plant litter decay and soil organic carbon level: A global meta-analysis (2020, background): “, 2010) and the formation of soil macroaggregates (Bossuyt et al., 2005).”
The Role of Microbial Communities in the Formation and Decomposition of Soil Organic Matter (2010, background): “For example, Bossuyt et al. (2005) found that activities of Aporrectodea caliginosa resulted in newly added plant residue carbon being protected in microaggregates, but there was almost no protection of recently added carbon in macroaggregates, where it was available for microbial decomposition and…”
Beyond microbes: Are fauna the next frontier in soil biogeochemical models? (2016, background): “By transforming and redistributing plant litter in soil and by promoting soil aggregation (Bossuyt et al., 2005; Chamberlain et al., 2006; Frouz et al., 2009), litter comminutors and bioturbators may have important effects on the factors that control SOM persistence.”
The role of litter-feeding macroarthropods in decomposition processes: A reappraisal of common views (2014, background): “protected from microbial decomposition in soil aggregates created by earthworms (Wolters, 2000; Bossuyt et al., 2005).”
Functional role of microarthropods in soil aggregation (2015, background): “…various groups of soil biota, especially the effects of mycorrhizal fungi, 67 bacteria, earthworms, and termites have been studied intensely (e.g.; Lee and Foster, 68 1991; Oades and Waters, 1991; Bossuyt et al., 2005; Pulleman et al., 2005; Rillig and 69 Mummey, 2006; Velasquez et al., 2007).”