| Author | Year | Title | Type |
| Gong et al. | 2017 | Effects of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon sequestration at multiple scales in semi-arid Loess Plateau, China | Experimental study |
| Hu et al. | 2018 | Effects of environmental factors on soil organic carbon under natural or managed vegetation restoration | Experimental study |
| Deng, kim, peng & Shangguan et al. | 2018 | Controls of soil and aggregate‐associated organic carbon variations following natural vegetation restoration | Experimental study |
| P. Shi et al. | 2021 | Effects of 15-year vegetation restoration on organic carbon in soil aggregates on the Loess Plateau, China. | Experimental study |
| Lan et al. | 2021 | Long-term vegetation restoration increases deep soil carbon storage in the Northern Loess Plateau | Experiment study |
| Gu et al. | 2018 | Effects of vegetation restoration on soil organic carbon mineralization | Experimental study |
| Zhang, Xiao, Huo et al. | 2021 | Key factors influencing on vegetation restoration in the gullies of the mollisols | Quantitative |
| G. Poley & J. Mcdermid | 2020 | A systematic review of the factors influencing the estimation of vegetation aboveground | Experimental group |
| Hu et al. | 2021 | Soil carbon accumulation with increasing temperature under both managed and natural vegetation restoration | Experimental study |
| Qiu, Wu, Shi et al. | 2021 | Quantifying the responses of evapotranspiration and its components to vegetation restoration and climate change | Experimental study |
| He, Wang et al. | 2022 | Vegetation recovery and recent degradation in different karst landforms of southwest China | Focus group |
| Gill, Fehmi et al. | 2022 | Biotic and abiotic factors important for palmer’s agave restoration in lehmann lovegrass dominated areas | Experimental study |
| Lal, et al. | 2018 | A holistic perspective of factors affecting soil organic carbon | Experiment study |
| Arunrat et al. | 2020 | Factors controlling soil organic carbon sequestration of highland agricultural areas | Review |
| Luo, feng et al. | 2017 | Soil organic carbon dynamics jointly controlled by climate, carbon inputs, soil properties and soil carbon fractions | Review paper |
| Bernal et al. | 2016 | Limits to soil carbon stability; deep, ancient soil carbon decomposition stimulated by new labile organic inputs | Focus study |
| Luo, Wang et al. | 2016 | A meta-analysis of the temporal dynamics of priming soil carbon decomposition by fresh carbon inputs across ecosystems. | Quantitative |
| Frey et al. | 2014 | Chronic nitrogen additions suppress decomposition and sequester soil carbon in temperate forests. | Experimental study |
| Xu et al. | 2015 | The variations in soil microbial communities, enzyme activities and their relationships with soil organic matter decomposition along the northern slope of changbai mountain. | Experimental Study |
| Riggs, Hobbie et al. | 2015 | Nitrogen addition changes grassland soil organic matter decomposition. | Quantitative |
| S.Shi & Han et al. | 2014 | Effects of 15-year vegetation restoration on organic carbon in soil aggregates on the loess plateau, China. | Experimental study |
| Tian et al. | 2015 | Effects of long-term fertilization and residue management on soil organic carbon changes in paddy soils of China: a meta-analysis. | Experimental study |
| Munoz-Rojas | 2015 | Impact of land use and land cover changes on organic carbon stocks in mediterranean soils | Experimental study |
| Weissert Salmond et al. | 2016 | Variability of soil organic carbon stocks and soil co2 efflux across urban land use and soil cover types. | Quantitative |
| Angst et al. | 2018 | Soil organic carbon stocks in topsoil and subsoil controlled by parent material, carbon input in the rhizosphere, and microbial-derived compounds. | Quantitative |
| Balesdent et al. | 2018 | Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth. | Quantitative |
| Hopkins et al. | 2014 | Increased belowground carbon inputs and warming promote loss of soil organic carbon through complementary microbial responses. | Meta-analysis |
| Lugato, Lavallee et al. | 2021 | Different climate sensitivity of particulate and mineral-associated soil organic matter. | Meta-analysis |
| Li et al. | 2018 | Soil labile organic carbon fractions and soil organic carbon stocks as affected by long-term organic and mineral fertilization regimes in the North China Plain. | Experimental study |
| Hobley, Wilson, Wilkie, Gray, & et al. | 2015 | Drivers of soil organic carbon storage and vertical distribution in Eastern Australia. | Experimental study |