**Plant-Soil Interactions** is a subfield of ecology that investigates the reciprocal physical, chemical, and biological relationships between plants and the soil environment—including soil biota, organic matter, and abiotic soil properties—and how these relationships regulate plant performance, nutrient cycling, and broader ecosystem processes.
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Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property
Michael W. Schmidt, Margaret Torn, Samuel Abiven et al. · Nature · 2011 · 6K citations · Full text
The contentious nature of soil organic matter
Johannes Lehmann, Markus Kleber · Nature · 2015 · 4.3K citations
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