Geologists tell us that we live in the Anthropocene, the period marked by humanity's global
transformation of the environment ( 1 ). More than half of Earth's terrestrial surface is now …

… using a ratio of 20 g soil to 30 ml 1.9 g cm −3 clean (low C … ml of sodium hexametaphosphate
(HMP; 5 g l −1 ) at 100 rpm for 2 h, and then rinsed through a 53 μm sieve with 200–350 ml …

A number of scientists have named our age the Anthropocene because humanity is globally
affecting Earth systems, including the soil. Global soil change raises important questions …

To understand the role biota play in resilience or vulnerability to environmental change, we
investigated soil, plant, and microbial responses to a widespread environmental change, …

Of the greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation options available from US forests and agricultural
lands, forest management presents amongst the lowest cost and highest volume opportunities…

With scholars deliberating a new name for our geologic epoch, ie, the Anthropocene, soil
scientists whether biologists, chemists, or physicists are documenting significant changes …

Oil and natural gas extraction is rapidly expanding in semiarid intermountain big sagebrush
ecosystems of the western USA. Formerly covering over 60 million ha, this ecosystem has …

… effects on ecosystem structure and process (Mobley 2011). Although important to creation
and … Mobley, ML 2011. An ecosystem approach to dead plant carbon over 50 years of old-field …

… Mobley … five decades (Billings and Richter 2006; Mobley 2011; Mobley et al. 2013; Richter
and … and that of forest-priming effects on soil organic carbon decomposition (Mobley 2011). …

Core Ideas Detecting change depends on soil variability, sampling effort and desired confidence.
We illustrate detectable rates of change using data from the Calhoun Long‐Term Soil‐…