The Carbon Budget in Soils

THE VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SOIL ORGANIC CARBON AND ITS RELATION TO CLIMATE AND VEGETATION

2000 • 4,532 citations

Analysis of Factors Controlling Soil Organic Matter Levels in Great Plains Grasslands

1987 • 3,730 citations

The global carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate

1992 • 2,994 citations

Particulate Soil Organic‐Matter Changes across a Grassland Cultivation Sequence

1992 • 2,563 citations

Soil carbon sequestration and land‐use change: processes and potential

2000 • 2,445 citations

Soil carbon pools and world life zones

1982 • 2,250 citations

Soil water content and temperature as independent or confounded factors controlling soil respiration in a temperate mixed hardwood forest

1998 • 1,913 citations

The global carbon dioxide flux in soil respiration and its relationship to vegetation and climate

1992 • 1,778 citations

Determination of World Plant Formations From Simple Climatic Data

1947 • 1,732 citations

Untitled

2000 • 1,675 citations

Aggregation and Soil Organic Matter Accumulation in Cultivated and Native Grassland Soils

1998 • 1,643 citations

Factors of Soil Formation: A System of Quantitative Pedology

1945 • 1,600 citations

Mineral control of soil organic carbon storage and turnover

1997 • 1,496 citations

Organic Carbon in Soils of the World

1993 • 1,441 citations

The role of deep roots in the hydrological and carbon cycles of Amazonian forests and pastures

1994 • 1,403 citations

The Potential of U.S. Cropland to Sequester Carbon and Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

1998 • 1,096 citations

Model estimates of CO2 emissions from soil in response to global warming

1991 • 1,089 citations

The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms : with observations on their habits /

1881 • 1,059 citations

Climatic, edaphic, and biotic controls over storage and turnover of carbon in soils

1994 • 1,047 citations

AGE OF SOIL ORGANIC MATTER AND SOIL RESPIRATION: RADIOCARBON CONSTRAINTS ON BELOWGROUND C DYNAMICS

2000 • 1,044 citations

Carbon Balance in Terrestrial Detritus

1977 • 1,020 citations

The turnover of organic carbon and nitrogen in soil

1990 • 965 citations

Changes in soil carbon inventories following cultivation of previously untilled soils

1993 • 907 citations

The formation of vegetable mould, through the action of worms, with observations on their habits

1900 • 899 citations

The role of soil organic matter in sustaining soil fertility

1994 • 881 citations

Texture, Climate, and Cultivation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Content in U.S. Grassland Soils

1989 • 872 citations

The soil production function and landscape equilibrium

1997 • 853 citations

The soil resource. Origin and behavior

1984 • 830 citations

Terrestrial sedimentation and the carbon cycle: Coupling weathering and erosion to carbon burial

1998 • 828 citations

Agricultural soils as a sink to mitigate CO₂ emissions

1997 • 804 citations

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2000 • 773 citations

Rapid Exchange Between Soil Carbon and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Driven by Temperature Change

1996 • 770 citations

Evidence from chronosequence studies for a low carbon-storage potential of soils

1990 • 744 citations

Carbon Sequestration in Soils

1999 • 726 citations

The Soil Resource

1980 • 724 citations

GEOLOGIC HISTORY OF SEA WATER

1951 • 694 citations

CHANGES IN SOIL CARBON STORAGE AFTER CULTIVATION

1986 • 672 citations

Recent Variations of Sea Ice and Air Temperature in High Latitudes

1993 • 668 citations

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DECOMPOSITION RATES OF ORGANIC MATTER IN TEMPERATE AND TROPICAL REGIONS

1949 • 634 citations

Contribution of Increasing CO ₂ and Climate to Carbon Storage by Ecosystems in the United States

2000 • 574 citations

Residue management, conservation tillage and soil restoration for mitigating greenhouse effect by CO2-enrichment

1997 • 568 citations

DYNAMICS OF SOIL NITROGEN AND CARBON ACCUMULATION FOR 61 YEARS AFTER AGRICULTURAL ABANDONMENT

2000 • 554 citations

Belowground cycling of carbon in forests and pastures of eastern Amazonia

1995 • 524 citations

Global Carbon Sinks and Their Variability Inferred from Atmospheric O ₂ and δ ¹³ C

2000 • 500 citations

Factors of soil formation. A system of quantitative pedology

1995 • 465 citations

The Global Carbon Dioxide Budget

1993 • 451 citations

Comparison of carbon dynamics in tropical and temperate soils using radiocarbon measurements

1993 • 442 citations

Potential responses of soil organic carbon to global environmental change

1997 • 424 citations

Long‐Term No‐tillage Effects on Soil Properties and Continuous Corn Yields

1994 • 405 citations

Biogeochemistry of C, N, and P in a Soil Catena of the Shortgrass Steppe

1985 • 363 citations

Carbon sequestration in soils: some cautions amidst optimism

2000 • 343 citations

Changes in Soil Carbon Storage and Associated Properties with Disturbance and Recovery

1986 • 315 citations

The Carbon Cycle

1981 • 315 citations

Cosmogenic nuclides, topography, and the spatial variation of soil depth

1999 • 313 citations

Primary production: Terrestrial ecosystems

1973 • 308 citations

The sensitivity of terrestrial carbon storage to climate change

1990 • 281 citations

Movement and turnover of soil organic matter as indicated by carbon isotope measurements

1978 • 279 citations

Physical factors influencing decomposition of organic materials in soil aggregates

1978 • 267 citations

Soil Organic Matter: Biological and Ecological Effects

1992 • 256 citations

Land‐use change and the carbon cycle

1995 • 252 citations

Derivation of State Factor Equations of Soils and Ecosystems

1961 • 249 citations

An Introduction to Organic Matter in Mineral Soils

2013 • 244 citations

Equilibrium Responses of Soil Carbon to Climate Change: Empirical and Process-Based Estimates

1995 • 236 citations

Dynamics of Soil Carbon During Deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet

1992 • 232 citations

Spatial Patterns of Soil Organic Carbon in the Contiguous United States

1994 • 232 citations

Soil Organic Matter. Biological and Ecological Effects. (1987).

1988 • 215 citations

Estimate of Organic Carbon in World Soils

1976 • 214 citations

Nitrogen and carbon changes in great plains soils as influenced by cropping and soil treatments

1957 • 207 citations

Humus, Origin, Chemical Composition and Importance in Nature

1937 • 202 citations

The sustainability of rice farming

1998 • 188 citations

Comparison of Fractionation Methods for Soil Organic Matter ¹⁴C Analysis

1996 • 174 citations

Ploughing effects on soil organic matter after twenty years of conservation tillage in Lower Saxony, Germany

1999 • 157 citations

AMS 14C Measurements of Fractionated Soil Organic Matter: An Approach to Deciphering the Soil Carbon Cycle

1989 • 153 citations

On a State Factor Model of Ecosystems

1997 • 149 citations

Impacts of agricultural management practices on C sequestration in forest-derived soils of the eastern Corn Belt

1998 • 144 citations

Sensitivity of global carbon pools and fluxes to human and potential climatic impacts

1987 • 141 citations

The Decoupling of Terrestrial Carbon and Nitrogen Cycles

1997 • 136 citations

Sensitivity of global carbon pools and fluxes to human and potential climatic impacts

1987 • 136 citations

Mechanistic Simulation of Vertical Distribution of Carbon Concentrations and Residence Times in Soils

1995 • 135 citations

Sustainability of Rice Farming

1997 • 131 citations

Modeling the Measurable or Measuring the Modelable: A Hierarchical Approach to Isolating Meaningful Soil Organic Matter Fractionations

1996 • 128 citations

The Carbon Cycle

1970 • 124 citations

Soil biological dynamics in slash-and-burn agriculture

1996 • 122 citations

Effect of climate and cultivation on nitrogen and organic matter reserves in Indian soils

1960 • 101 citations

Estimate of Organic Carbon in World Soils: II

1982 • 92 citations

Soil carbon dynamics in different cropping systems in principal ecoregions of Asia.

1998 • 80 citations

Seasonal and altitudinal variation in decomposition of soil organic matter inferred from radiocarbon measurements of soil CO₂ flux

2000 • 78 citations

ACCUMULATION OF ORGANIC MATTER IN A CHRONOSEQUENCE OF SOILS DEVELOPED ON WIND‐BLOWN SAND IN NEW ZEALAND

1970 • 68 citations

Postglacial environments in relation to landscape and soils on the Cary drift, Iowa

1966 • 51 citations

Distribution, accumulation, and fluxes of soil carbon in four monoculture lysimeters at San Dimas Experimental Forest, California

1999 • 45 citations

Stable Isotope Tracers and Mathematical Models in Soil Organic Matter Studies

2000 • 38 citations

Soil fertility losses under Missouri conditions

1933 • 37 citations

RELATION OF TEMPERATURE TO THE AMOUNT OF NITROGEN IN SOILS

1929 • 28 citations

Draft Report Affirms Human Influence

2000 • 20 citations

Relation of Climatic Factors to the Amount of Nitrogen in Soils¹

1928 • 18 citations

THE NITROGEN CONTENT OF THE SOIL AS RELATED TO THE PRECIPITATION-EVAPORATION RATIO

1930 • 18 citations

An Equation of State for Soil Nitrogen

1930 • 8 citations

Soil Aggregation and C Sequestration

2019 • 3 citations