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Session Proposal: Soils in the Anthropocene: Cross-scale Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change (AGU25)

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Soils in the Anthropocene: Cross-scale Mechanisms of Stabilization and Change

Session ID#: 247219

Session Description:
Soils play a major role in provisioning key ecosystem services, including nutrient supply, carbon (C) storage, and regulating atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. Better constraints on the cross-scale mechanisms that regulate soil C pools and fluxes are needed to improve understanding and provide insights into how global change will affect soil C persistence and vulnerability. This session will focus on empirical, synthesis, and modeling studies that address the stabilization and change of soil C, including but not limited to: storage capacity, ages and transit times of soil C, soil fluxes and pools, interactions with nutrients and metals, mechanisms of protection and stabilization/destabilization (including new methods to measure and monitor change), and ecosystem vulnerability. Studies involving manipulation experiments (e.g., precipitation, litter), long-term or large-scale data collection or synthesis, and model-data integration are strongly encouraged.
Co-Sponsor(s):
  • GC - Global Environmental Change
Index Terms:

0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener:  Sophie von Fromm, Dartmouth College, Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States
Conveners:  Avni Malhotra, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, Katerina Georgiou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States and Samantha R Weintraub-Leff, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, United States
Student/Early Career Convener:  Katherine Rocci, Colorado State University, Soil and Crop Sciences, Fort Collins, United States
 
Interactive effects of urbanness and land cover types on soil carbon and nitrogen pools in green spaces (1847514)
Peng Huang1,2, Yue Sun1,2, Kirsty Watkinson3, Abigail Coole1,2, Richard Bardgett2 and David Johnson2, (1)University of Manchester, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Manchester, United Kingdom, (2)University of Lancaster, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster, United Kingdom, (3)University of Manchester, School of Environment, Education and Development, Manchester, United Kingdom
 
Clarifying the Effects of Change on Soil Carbon Persistence and Vulnerability with Radiocarbon (Invited) (1882178)
Karis J McFarlane1, Katherine Grant1, Kari M Finstad2, Allegra Mayer1 and Paul Zander1, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
 
Distribution and Controls of Mineral-Associated Organic Matter (MAOM-C and MAOM-N) in Phaeozems (Mollisols) of Northeast China (1890171)
Zicheng Yu1,2, Liang Yang3, Shengzhen Ji3, Hongye Liu3, Jingjing Sun3, Jiayi Duan3, Daiji Wan3, Kangning Geng3 and Yuan Zhou3, (1)Northeast Normal University, Key Laboratory of Geographical Processes and Ecological Security in Changbai Mountains (Ministry of Education), School of Geographical Sciences, Changchun, China, (2)Chinese Academy of Sciences, State Key Laboratory of Black Soils Conservation and Utilization, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Changchun, China, (3)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Northeast Institute of Geography and Agroecology, Changchun, China
 
Machine Learning Prediction of Soil Organic Carbon Fractions to Assess Global Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential (1891744)
Chloe Kusser, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, Gregg Sanford, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, United States and Jingyi Huang, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Madison, United States
 
Mineralogical Controls on Soil Organic Matter Formation and Destabilization in the Rhizosphere (1892056)
Itamar Shabtai1, James O'Sullivan2, Tiffany Kinnibrugh3, Alice Zhou1 and Kavya Sree Gunnala1, (1)Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, United States, (2)Argonne National Laboratory, X-ray Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, (3)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States
 
Restored prairie beats monoculture perennial grasses and row crops in SOC accumulation among bioenergy crops in long-term study (1892473)
Ilsa B Kantola, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Urbana, United States, Elena Blanc-Betes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment; Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Urbana, IL, United States, Adam C von Haden, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Madison, WI, United States, Michael D Masters, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, Bethany Blakely, University of Wisconsin Madison, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Madison, United States, Carl Bernacchi, Global Change and Photosynthesis Research Unit, Agricultural Research Service, USDA, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology; Carl. R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology;, Urbana, United States and Evan H DeLucia, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation; Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology; Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation, Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States
 
Effects of the soil mineral matrix on soil carbon across scales in continental Europe (1893305)
Leila Maria Wahab, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States, Brooke Hunter, Appalachian State University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Boone, NC, United States and Eric Slessarev, Yale University, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States
 
Cross-Scale Controls on Soil Carbon Dynamics: Integrating Microbial, Plant, and Environmental Drivers Through Process-Based Modeling (Invited) (1896075)
Zhen Li, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, United States, William J Riley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, Robert F Grant, University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, Jinyun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, Scott Saleska, University of Arizona, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Tucson, United States, Eoin Brodie, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, Nicholas Bouskill, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, CA, United States, Dr. Ruth K Varner, PhD, University of New Hampshire, Department of Earth Sciences, Durham, United States, Virginia Isabel Rich, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, Erin E Nuccio, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States and Katerina Georgiou, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States; Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
 
Relative contributions of above- and belowground plant inputs to soil carbon storage and changes in Northern forests and grassland (1903008)
Ruofei Jia, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States and César Terrer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, United States
 
Effects of Extreme Precipitation on Soil CO2 Release: Insights from a Field Manipulation Experiment (1903561)
Yuri Suzuki and Dr. Hirohiko Nagano, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan
 
Efficiency of Mineral-associated Carbon Formation from LMW-C and Structural Inputs (1909703)
Junyi Liang1, Qintana Si1, Yue Yu2, Kelou Chen2, Pengshuai Shao3, Paul Dijkstra4, Bruce A Hungate5, Xiao Jun Allen Liu6 and Yiqi Luo7, (1)China Agricultural University, Department of Grassland Resources and Ecology, Beijing, China, (2)China Agricultural University, Beijing, China, (3)Binzhou University, Binzhou, China, (4)Northern Arizona Univ, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (5)Northern Arizona University, Department of Biological Sciences and the Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (6)Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology, Norman, United States, (7)Cornell University, School of Integrative Plant Science, Ithaca, United States
 
Unearthing Legacy Effects of Anthropogenic Nitrogen Deposition on Microbial Mechanisms Mediating Soil Carbon Storage (1911066)
Brooke Propson1, Zac Freedman1, Annalisa Stevenson1, Aimee Classen2, Andrew J Burton3 and Donald R Zak4, (1)University of Wisconsin-Madison, Soil and Environmental Sciences, Madison, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, United States, (3)Michigan Technological University, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Houghton, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor, United States
 
Stable Carbon Pools Associated with Distinct Mineral Phases in Soils: A Cross-Ecosystem Study Using Targeted Dissolution Extractions (1923425)
Oluwaseun Adeyemi and Qian Zhao, University of Texas at Dallas, Sustainable Earth Systems Sciences, Richardson, United States
 
Persistence and Turnover of Soil Organic Carbon in Global Drylands (1924391)
Hui Wang1, Fernando Maestre2, Nan Lu3, Guang Zhao4, Yangjian Zhang5, Victoria Ochoa6, Carlos A Sierra7, Marion Schrumpf8, Sophie von Fromm9, De Shorn Bramble1, Andrés Tangarife-Escobar1, Kai Wang3, Cong Wang3, Weiliang Chen3, David J. Eldridg10, Nicolas Gross11, Yoann Le Bagousse-Pinguet12, Hugo Saiz13, Beatriz Gozalo14, Sergio Asensio14, César Plaza15, Emilio Guirado16, Miguel García-Gómez17, Enrique Valencia18, Juan J. Gaitán15, Jaime Martínez-Valderrama19, Betty J. Mendoza20, Michaela Anna Dippold21, Sönke Zaehle8, Bojie Fu22, Susan Trumbore23 and Jianbei Huang1, (1)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany, (2)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (3)Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (4)Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, (5)IGSNRR Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS, Beijing, China, (6)Universidad de Jaén, Jaén, Spain, (7)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology, Jena, Germany, (8)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (9)Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, United States, (10)Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (11)Unité Mixte de Recherche Ecosystème Prairial, Clermont-Ferrand, France, (12)IMBE, Aix-en-Provence, France, (13)Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Ciencias Ambientales de Aragón (IUCA), Universidad de Zaragoza, Huesca, Spain, (14)Instituto Multidisciplinar para el Estudio del Medio ‘Ramón Margalef’, Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain, (15)Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), CSIC, Madrid, Spain, (16)King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, (17)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (18)Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (19)Universidad de Alicante, Alicante, Spain, (20)Física y Química Inorgánica, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, (21)Geo-Biosphere Interactions, Geosciences, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, (22)Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijng, China, (23)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department Biogeochemical Processes, Jena, Germany
 
A Trait-Based Modeling Framework for Predicting Emergent Soil Biogeochemical Processes (1929939)
Jianqiu Zheng and Vanessa L Bailey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
 
Structural Composition of Soil Organic Matter in Hawaiian Oxisols from Surface to Depth (1932888)
Tanner B Beckstrom1, Christine Tallamy Glazer1, Tai McClellan Maaz2, Hayley Peter-Contesse3, Jonathan L Deenik2 and Susan E Crow4, (1)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Natural Resource and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States, (2)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, Honolulu, United States, (3)Oregon State University, Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Corvallis, United States, (4)University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Natural Resources and Environmental Management, Honolulu, United States
 
Forest Soil Respiration After Compound Disturbance: The Effects of Changing Canopy Structure, Species Composition, and Microclimate (1947487)
Ariel Johnson, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States, Kayla Cerise Mathes, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Falmouth, United States, Sara Spence, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, United States and Christopher Michael Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University, Biology, Richmond, VA, United States
 
Geochemical and Mechanical Response of Sulfate-Bearing Expansive Soils Treated with Waste-Derived Magnesium Oxide (MgO) (1950836)
Gangasri M, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, India and Thyagaraj T, Professor,Indian Institute of Technology , Madras, Civil Engineering, Chennai, India
 
Aboveground Disturbance Leads to Surprising Shifts in Belowground Carbon Dynamics and Soil Aeration in a Hurricane-Impacted Temperate Forest (1951731)
Hannah Naughton and Marissa Hanley, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, Amherst, United States
 
Long-Term Patterns and Proposed Drivers of Soil-Atmosphere Feedbacks in a US Northern Hardwood Forest (1953696)
Angela Ruth Possinger1, Charles T Driscoll2, Timothy Fahey3, David Frey4, Christine L Goodale5, Mark Green6, Chris Johnson7, Mary Margaret Koppers7, Guilherme Macedo de Alencar8, Jennifer L Morse9, Lisa Martel10, Rachel Shaw8, Pamela H Templer11, Angelina Uribe12, Geoff Wilson13, Michelle Wong14 and Peter M Groffman15, (1)Virginia Tech, School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Blacksburg, United States, (2)Syracuse University, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, NY, United States, (3)Cornell University, Department of Natural Resources, Ithaca, NY, United States, (4)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, United States, (5)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (6)Case Western Reserve University, Institute for Smart, Secure, and Connected Systems, Cleveland, United States, (7)Syracuse University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Syracuse, United States, (8)Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, United States, (9)Portland State University, Portland, OR, United States, (10)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, United States, (11)Boston University, Department of Biology, Boston, MA, United States, (12)Portland State University, Portland, United States, (13)Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Milbrook, United States, (14)Yale University, New Haven, United States, (15)CUNY Advanced Science Research Center; Brooklyn College, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, New York, United States
 
Decadal-Scale Dynamics of Measurable Soil Organic Matter Pools in Deciduous Forest Exposed to Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment (1978689)
Julie D Jastrow1, Sarah O'Brien2, Kelly Sturner1, Thomas W Boutton3, Roser Matamala4, R. Michael Miller1, Matthew Craig5, Dr. Colleen M. Iversen, PhD5, Richard J. Norby5 and Anthony P Walker5, (1)Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States, (3)Texas A&M University, College Station, United States, (4)Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States, (5)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, United States
 
Assessing the Contribution of Microbial Primary Production to the Soil Organic Carbon Pools of Arid Lands. (1978961)
Sarah Koger, Springville, UT, UNITED STATES and Ferran Garcia-Pichel, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
 
Rapid rebound of aggregate pore structure precedes organic matter recovery in a restored prairie (1980715)
James O'Sullivan, Argonne National Laboratory, X-ray Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States, Sarah O'Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States; University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago, United States, Kelly Sturner, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, United States, Ken M Kemner, Argonne National Laboratory, Biosciences Division, Argonne, United States, Maxim Boyanov, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, United States; Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Chemical Engineering, Sofia, Bulgaria, Lin Yang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, National Synchrotron Light Source II, Upton, United States and Julie D Jastrow, Argonne National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Argonne, IL, United States
 
Beyond Temperature Dependence: Disentangling Microbial Physiology, Community Shifts, and Substrate Controls on Soil Respiration (1982594)
Steve Kwatcho Kengdo1, Ricardo J Eloy Alves1, Elaine Pegoraro1, Kolby Jardine1, Eoin Brodie1,2 and Margaret S Torn1,3, (1)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Berkeley, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group, Berkeley, United States
 
Diurnal CO2 Adsorption-Desorption in Desert Soils: a Neglected Component of the Soil Carbon Cycle (1985646)
Anna Abramova1, Jennifer Mills2, Greg Maurer3, Benjamin Gilbert4, Melese Getenet Dessie4, Laura Lammers5, Shauna Zahabi6, Maedeh Chitsaz7, Marco Pfeiffer8 and Ronald Amundson9, (1)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)Terradot, San Francisco, United States, (3)New Mexico State University, Jornada Basin LTER Program, Las Cruces, NM, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (5)Travertine Technologies, Boulder, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, Berkeley, United States, (8)Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, (9)University of California Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Berkeley, CA, United States
 
Eutrophication decreases soil respiration via nutrient co-limitation in a semi-arid grassland (2000065)
Isabella Beltran and Nicholas G Smith, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, United States
 
Controls of Soil C Concentration and CO2 Efflux Vary with Microtopographic Position in a Temperate Forest (2002524)
Genevieve Goebel, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, NH, United States, Daysia Charles, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, United States, Joshua D Landis, Dartmouth College, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hanover, United States, David A Lutz, Dartmouth College, Department of Environmental Studies, Hanover, United States and Caitlin Hicks Pries, Dartmouth College, Department of Biological Sciences, Hanover, United States
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