The role of soil microbes in the global carbon cycle: Tracking the below-ground microbial processing of plant-derived carbon for manipulating carbon dynamics in agricultural systems

Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2362-2371

  Gougoulias, Christos ^a,b   Clark, Joanna M ^a   Shaw, Liz J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b JEALOTT S HILL INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agro ecosystem management; Carbon cycling; Carbon tracking; Climate change; Decomposition; Methods; Rhizosphere carbon flow; Soil microbial respiration

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CHEMISTRY; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MICROBIOLOGY; PLANT; SOIL;

AGRICULTURE; ATMOSPHERE; CARBON; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ECOSYSTEM; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANTS; SOIL; SOIL MICROBIOLOGY;

EID: 84904402081     PISSN: 00225142     EISSN: 10970010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jsfa.6577     Document Type: Review

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