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Reply to: Soils need to be considered when assessing the impacts of land-use change on carbon sequestration

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The Original Article was published on 04 November 2019

replying to S. Duarte-Guardia et al. Nature Ecology & Evolution https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1026-8 (2019)

In their comment on our recent study1, Duarte-Guardia et al.2 argue that if we had included soil organic carbon (SOC), “a completely different set of conclusions and policy recommendations would have emerged”. While we agree with the vast importance of SOC for the global carbon cycle, we do not agree with this statement. We use this opportunity to clarify a few points concerning our study and to speculate about how the inclusion of SOC might have changed our results.

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  1. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

    Thomas Kastner

  2. Institute of Social Ecology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Thomas Kastner, Christoph Plutzar, Michaela C. Theurl, Nina Eisenmenger & Karl-Heinz Erb

  3. Institute of Environmental Sciences, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands

    Alexandra Marques & Arnold Tukker

  4. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Alexandra Marques, Inês S. Martins, Joana Canelas & Henrique M. Pereira

  5. Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Alexandra Marques, Inês S. Martins, Joana Canelas & Henrique M. Pereira

  6. Division of Conservation Biology, Vegetation Ecology and Landscape Ecology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Christoph Plutzar

  7. Institute for Water and Wetland Research, Department of Environmental Science, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

    Mark A. J. Huijbregts & Jelle P. Hilbers

  8. Industrial Ecology Programme, Department of Energy and Process Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Richard Wood & Konstantin Stadler

  9. Institute for Ecological Economics, Vienna University of Business and Economics, Vienna, Austria

    Martin Bruckner

  10. Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology, School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK

    Joana Canelas

  11. Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO, Delft, the Netherlands

    Arnold Tukker

  12. CIBIO/InBio, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal

    Henrique M. Pereira

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T.K., A.M., K.-H.E. and H.M.P. designed the work. T.K. and A.M. wrote the paper with help from K.-H.E., H.M.P., I.S.M., C.P., M.C.T., N.E., M.A.J.H., R.W., K.S., M.B., J.C., J.P.H. and A.T.

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Kastner, T., Marques, A., Martins, I.S. et al. Reply to: Soils need to be considered when assessing the impacts of land-use change on carbon sequestration. Nat Ecol Evol 3, 1643–1644 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1029-5

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