Changes in climate and land use are implicated as the main factors in the large-scale loss of carbon from soils in England and Wales over the past 25 years. The same picture is likely to apply much more broadly.
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Schulze, E., Freibauer, A. Carbon unlocked from soils. Nature 437, 205–206 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/437205a
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