Into the Deep: Interactions Between Plant Roots, Microbial Ecophysiology, and Soil Minerals shape the fate and persistence of deep soil carbon
Jennifer Pett-Ridge1, Karis J McFarlane1, Erin E Nuccio2, Lauren Hale3, Ashley Campbell1, Rachel Neurath1, Kateryna Zhalnina4, Yonatan Sher5,6, Rosalie Kae Chu7, Ljiljana Paša-Tolić8, Jizhong Zhou9, Asmeret Asefaw Asefaw Berhe10, Tana E Wood11 and Mary K Firestone12, (1)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States, (2)Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Livermore, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Mountain View, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, United States, (8)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma, Norman, United States, (10)University of California Merced, Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (11)USDA Forest Service, International Institute of Tropical Forestry, San Juan, United States, (12)Univ California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States