ABSTRACT
Jastrow (1996) suggests that the degradation of soil aggregates, as a result of soil management or mismanagement could result in the loss of soil carbon from protected fraction in aggregates. The development of stable soil aggregates can increase the carbon sink of soils, hence, fungi and bacteria are of great importance in the formation of and stability of aggregates. In a study of the restoration of prairie soils from agriculture the increase in the percentage of stable aggregates in the soil followed an exponential model. The rate constant k for aggregate formation was 35 times that for the accumulation of carbon into other parts of the soil, with the time to reach 99% of the equilibrium at 10.5 years
