ArticleNature communications2025
Soil organic carbon thresholds control fertilizer effects on carbon accrual in croplands worldwide.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 18 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Pooled it
- Critical thresholds for co-benefits of carbon accumulation and biodiversity conservation under global nitrogen enrichment.Nature communications · 2026Pooled it
- Nitrogen fertilization increases soil organic carbon through distinct pathways in contrasting cropland soils.Science China. Life sciences · 2026Article
- The Fragile Sink: Reconceptualizing Soil Carbon Stabilization and Its Vulnerability Under Global Change.Global change biology · 2026Review
- Synergistic Interactions Between Warming and Elevated Atmospheric COGlobal change biology · 2026Article
- Global-scale patterns of bioavailable soil phosphorus driven by agricultural fertilization.iScience · 2026Article
- Global long-term agricultural experiments reveal consequences of mineral fertilization for soil microbiomes.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Divergent responses of soil organic and inorganic carbon driven by land use during coastal reclamation.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Root Exudates Shape Soil Organic Carbon Stabilization by Controlling Microbial Necromass Formation Under Long-Term Nitrogen Fertilization.Microorganisms · 2026Article
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- Unravelling depth-dependent pedoclimatic controls on measurable soil organic carbon fractions across climatic gradients in Australian agricultural soils.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Hump-Shaped Relationship Between Microbial Carbon Use-Efficiency and Soil Organic Carbon in Alpine Grasslands.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Article
- Continuous cropping of lavender (Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
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- Bio-organic amendment enhances apple yield and nutritional quality in degraded sandy soils.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Long-term application of straw and biochar improves soil carbon fractions, enzyme activity, and tomato yield under continuous greenhouse cultivation.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Labile carbon drives synergistic improvements inFrontiers in plant science · 2026Article
- Year-to-year variation in organic fertilization effects on soil carbon stabilization and microbial networks.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
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Abstract
Initiatives to restore soil fertility and mitigate global warming rely on rebuilding soil organic carbon (SOC). Nitrogen (N) fertilization is crucial for crop yields but affects SOC unpredictably due to varying responses of particulate organic carbon (POC) and mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) pools to initial SOC levels. To clarify these effects, here, by combining a global meta-analysis with continental-scale field experiments, we determine that an initial SOC threshold of 15 g C kg
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