PFAS sorption may depend on the quality of soil organic matter (SOM), their unique properties may also affect SOM dynamics
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The gap
While PFAS sorption may depend on the quality of soil organic matter (SOM), their unique properties may also affect SOM dynamics in complex and poorly understood ways, impacting long-term soil quality.
Evidence profile
Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2021 and 2025, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 251 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Effect of crop residue quality, nitrogen rate and CNPS stoichiometry on microbial respiration and C pools in a dispersive subsoil (2025) · Soil and Tillage Research · cited 1× · doi
Furthermore, little is known about the effectiveness of IRNM to build SOM on degraded soils such as dispersive subsoils, and recent studies have found stable SOM can occur in both the mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC) and particulate organic carbon (POC) fractions.
generalabstractKeywords: organic carbon little known effectiveness irnm build degraded soils dispersive subsoils recent found stable occur - Microbial Necromass in Soils—Linking Microbes to Soil Processes and Carbon Turnover (2021) · Frontiers in Environmental Science · cited 232× · doi
Although a great deal of knowledge exists on the carbon turnover processes of plant material, some of the processes of soil organic matter (SOM) formation, in particular from microbial necromass, are still not fully understood.
generalabstractKeywords: processes great deal knowledge exists carbon turnover plant material soil organic matter formation particular microbial - Reciprocal influence of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and soil organic matter on their fate in soils (2025) · Environmental Science and Pollution Research · cited 18× · doi
While PFAS sorption may depend on the quality of soil organic matter (SOM), their unique properties may also affect SOM dynamics in complex and poorly understood ways, impacting long-term soil quality.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: quality soil pfas sorption depend organic matter unique properties affect dynamics complex poorly understood ways
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