Current knowledge and future research directions to link soil health and water conservation in the Ogallala Aquifer region

An extraction method for measuring soil microbial biomass C

Eric D. Vance, Philip C. Brookes, D. S. Jenkinson · Soil Biology and Biochemistry · 1987 · 12.4K citations

Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Extraction Method +5

Methods of soil analysis. Part 3 - chemical methods.

Donald L. Sparks, A. L. Page, Philip A. Helmke et al. · 1996 · 8.6K citations

Soil Characterization, Soil Property, Engineering +4

Stabilization mechanisms of soil organic matter: Implications for C-saturation of soils

Johan Six, Richard T. Conant, E. A. Paul et al. · Plant and Soil · 2002 · 4.2K citations

The <scp>M</scp> icrobial <scp>E</scp> fficiency‐ <scp>M</scp> atrix <scp>S</scp> tabilization ( <scp>MEMS</scp> ) framework integrates plant litter decomposition with soil organic matter stabilization: do labile plant inputs form stable soil organic matter?

M. Francesca Cotrufo, Matthew D. Wallenstein, Claudia M. Boot et al. · Global Change Biology · 2012 · 3K citations · Full text

Resistance, resilience, and redundancy in microbial communities

Steven Allison, Jennifer B. H. Martiny · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2008 · 2.9K citations · Full text

Engineering, Synthetic Ecology, Plant Community Composition +17