Soil carbon stocks depend on inputs from decomposing vegetation and return to the atmosphere as CO2. Monitoring of carbon stocks in German alpine soils has shown large losses linked to climate change and a possible positive feedback loop.
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Kirk, G. Carbon losses in the Alps. Nature Geosci 9, 478–479 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2747
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