Submicron structures provide preferential spots for carbon and nitrogen sequestration in soils

Cordula Vogel (), Carsten W. Mueller, Carmen Höschen, Franz Buegger, Katja Heister, Stefanie Schulz, Michael Schloter and Ingrid Kögel-Knabner
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Cordula Vogel: Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Carsten W. Mueller: Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Carmen Höschen: Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Franz Buegger: Institute of Soil Ecology, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), German Research Center for Environmental Health
Katja Heister: Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München
Stefanie Schulz: Research Unit of Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), German Research Center for Environmental Health
Michael Schloter: Research Unit of Environmental Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum München (GmbH), German Research Center for Environmental Health
Ingrid Kögel-Knabner: Lehrstuhl für Bodenkunde, Center of Life and Food Sciences Weihenstephan, Technische Universität München

Nature Communications, 2014, vol. 5, issue 1, 1-7

Abstract: Abstract The sequestration of carbon and nitrogen by clay-sized particles in soils is well established, and clay content or mineral surface area has been used to estimate the sequestration potential of soils. Here, via incubation of a sieved (

Date: 2014
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