B089
Plants-microbes-minerals: interactions that drive soil organic matter cycling
Plants-microbes-minerals: interactions that drive soil organic matter cycling
Session ID#: 83003
Session Description:
Plants, microbes, and minerals are central to soil organic matter cycling, but the interactions among them are poorly understood. While most plant carbon is decomposed to carbon dioxide, the remainder typically undergoes multiple microbial transformations before it forms longer-term associations with soil minerals. However, the mechanisms by which different plant inputs (i.e. root detritus, rhizodeposition, aboveground detritus) affect microbial utilization of organic materials and subsequent mineral stabilization processes are not well known.
We welcome lab, field, modeling, or data-synthesis studies that investigate plant-soil interactions and organic matter cycling on any spatio-temporal scale. Studies addressing mechanisms of plant inputs to soil organic matter, controls on input rates, as well as consequences for local, regional or global variation in soil organic matter stocks are especially welcome.
Index Terms:
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0463 Microbe/mineral interactions [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
Conveners: Noah Sokol1, Jennifer Pett-Ridge1 and Jennifer W Harden2, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States(2)Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Primary Liaison: Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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