Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics

The paper investigates how land use intensity affects soil microbiome traits and carbon use efficiency (CUE) through metaproteomics and decomposition experiments, showing opposing effects in low and high pH soils.

The paper shows that bacterial populations under drought exhibit trade-offs between stress tolerance and decomposition capabilities, reducing overall decomposition rates.

The paper investigates how precipitation gradients and land use legacies affect ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in soil, identifying differences in their functional potentials and survival strategies.

The paper develops artificial soils to study how individual abiotic factors affect microbial growth and signaling, finding that soil texture, mineralogy, and pH have additive effects while organic matter behaves emergently.

The paper develops a pipeline linking soil organic carbon fractions with microbial composition using metagenomics and SOC fractionation, showing two fungi increased SOC and specific carbon fractions.

This study evaluates the impact of switchgrass cultivation on soil carbon and methane consumption in two degraded soils, finding increased carbon and reduced methane consumption in specific soil types.

This paper introduces a new biogeochemical modeling approach that explicitly represents organic matter thermodynamics to improve predictions of microbial degradation processes and their environmental impacts.