New strategies for submicron characterization the carbon binding of reactive  minerals in long-term contrasting fertilized soils: implications for soil  carbon storage

Xiao, Jian; He, Xinhua; Hao, Jialong; Zhou, Ying; Zheng, Lirong; Ran, Wei; Shen, Qirong; Yu, Guanghui

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3607-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3607-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3607-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 12

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21 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 21 Jun 2016

New strategies for submicron characterization the carbon binding of reactive minerals in long-term contrasting fertilized soils: implications for soil carbon storage

Jian Xiao, Xinhua He, Jialong Hao, Ying Zhou, Lirong Zheng, Wei Ran, Qirong Shen, and Guanghui Yu

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RC1: 'referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'Response to Referee 1', Guanghui Yu, 15 Mar 2016
  - RC2: 'A nice experiments that can connect long-term descriptive field study and microscopic mechanistic lab study', Anonymous Referee #3, 04 Apr 2016
    - AC2: 'Response to Referee 3', Guanghui Yu, 12 Apr 2016
RC3: 'referee comments', Anonymous Referee #4, 04 May 2016
- AC3: 'Response to Referee #4', Guanghui Yu, 08 May 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (26 May 2016) by Roland Bol

AR by Guanghui Yu on behalf of the Authors (28 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (31 May 2016) by Roland Bol

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Reactive minerals are ubiquitous in soil and are proposed as a primary driver for carbon (C) retention. However, regulation of soil reactive minerals and direct evidence in sequestrating C by them are scarce. Here we show that, compared with chemical fertilization, inorganic and organic fertilization enhanced the C-binding loadings of Al and Fe minerals in soil colloids, suggesting that reactive mineral species and their associations with C are differentially affected by fertilization practices.