Soils added 13C-labelled maize straw residue were incubated in-situ for 720 days.
Contribution of residue C to organic C in soil aggregates.
Distribution of residue C to macroaggregate was stable but to microaggregate increased.
More than 50% of fine particulate organic C was derived from residue C.
Residue C mainly stores in mineral-associated organic C fraction in the long-term.