Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

Authors: Crowther, T. W.; Todd-Brown, K. E. O.; Rowe, C. W.; Classen, A. T.ORCID; Harte, J.

Year: 2016

Journal: Nature, Vol. 540, pp. 104-108

Publisher: UNKNOWN

DOI: 10.1038/nature20150

Abstract

A comprehensive analysis of warming-induced changes in soil carbon stocks is presented by assembling data from 49 field experiments, finding that the effects of warming are contingent on the size of the initial soil carbon stock, with considerable losses occurring in high-latitude areas.

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