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modelling microbial processes. Nat Clim Chang 3:1–4
Xiang S-R, Doyle A, Holden PA, Schimel JP (2008) Drying and rewetting effects on C and N
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Ruiz-Dueñas FJ, Martínez ÁT (2009) Microbial degradation of lignin: how a bulky recalcitrant
polymer is efficiently recycled in nature and how we can take advantage of this. Microb
Biotechnol 2:164–177
Russel JC, McRuer WG (1927) The relation of organic matter and nitrogen content to series and
type in virgin grassland soils. Soil Sci 24:421–452
Schimel JP (2001) Biogeochemical models: implicit versus explicit microbiology. In: Schulze E-D,
Heimann M, Harrison S, Holland E, Lloyd J et al (eds) Global biogeochemical cycles in the
climate system. Academic Press, San Diego, pp 177–183
Schimel JP (2018) Life in dry soils: effects of drought on soil microbial communities and processes.
Ann Rev Ecol Evol Systemat 49:409–432
Schimel JP, Schaeffer SM (2012) Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil. Front Microbiol
3:1–11
Schimel JP, Weintraub MN (2003) The implications of exoenzyme activity on microbial carbon and
nitrogen limitation in soil: a theoretical model. Soil Biol Biochem 35:549–563
Schmidt MWI, Torn MS, Abiven S, Dittmar T, Guggenberger G et al (2011) Persistence of soil
organic matter as an ecosystem property. Nature 478:49–56
Schnitzer M, Kodama H, Ripmeester JA (1991) Determination of the aromaticity of humic substances by X-ray diffraction analysis. Soil Sci Soc Am J 55:745–750
Scow KM (1993) Effect of sorption-desorption and diffusion processes on the kinetics of biodegradation of organic chemicals in soil. In: Linn DM, Carski FH, Brusseau ML, Chang T-H (eds)
Sorption and degradation of pesticides and organic chemicals in soil. Soil Science Society of
America, Madison, WI, pp 73–114
Shipley B, De BF, Cornelissen JHC, Laliberté E, Laughlin DC, Reich PB (2016) Reinforcing loose
foundation stones in trait - based plant ecology. Oecologia 180:923–931
Slessarev EW, Lin Y, Bingham NL, Johnson JE, Dai Y et al (2016) Water balance creates a
threshold in soil pH at the global scale. Nature 540:567–569
Slessarev EW, Lin Y, Jime BY, Chadwick OA, Antonio CMD, Schimel JP (2020) Cellular and
extracellular C contributions to respiration after wetting dry soil. Biogeochemistry 147:307–324
Sokol NW, Sanderman J, Bradford MA (2019) Pathways of mineral - associated soil organic matter
formation : integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry. Glob
Chang Biol 25:12–24
Stevenson FJ (1982) Humus Chemistry: Genesis, Composition, Reactions. Wiley
Swenson TL, Jenkins S, Bowen BP, Northen TR (2015) Untargeted soil metabolomics methods for
analysis of extractable organic matter. Soil Biol Biochem 80:189–198
Taiz L, Zeiger E, Møller IM, Murphy A (2015) Plant physiology and development 6th edition, 6th
edn. Sinauer Associates Inc, Sunderland, MA
Todd-Brown K, Hopkins F, Kivlin S, Talbot JM, Allison SD (2011) A framework for representing
microbial decomposition in coupled climate models. Biogeochemistry 109:19–33
Treseder KK, Balser TC, Bradford MA, Brodie EL, Dubinsky EA et al (2011) Integrating microbial
ecology into ecosystem models: challenges and priorities. Biogeochemistry 109:7–18
Von Fischer JC, Butters G, Duchateau PC, Thelwell RJ, Siller R (2009) In situ measures of
methanotroph activity in upland soils: a reaction diffusion model and field observation of
water stress. J Geophys Res Biogeosciences 114:1–12
Waksman SA (1927) Principles of soil microbiology. The Williams & Wilkins Company,
Baltimore
Wieder WR, Bonan GB, Allison SD (2013) Global soil carbon projections are improved by
modelling microbial processes. Nat Clim Chang 3:1–4
Xiang S-R, Doyle A, Holden PA, Schimel JP (2008) Drying and rewetting effects on C and N
mineralization and microbial activity in surface and subsurface California grassland soils. Soil
Biol Biochem 40:2281–2289
102
J. Schimel