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SOIL CARBON

A dual response

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European mineral soils may lose less organic carbon due to climate change than previously suggested, according to analyses of climate responses from two physical fractions of soil carbon.

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Fig. 1: Topsoils beneath a melting snow cover of a mountainous grassland in French Alps.

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  1. Normandie Univ., UNIROUEN, INRAE, ECODIV, Rouen, France

    Lauric Cécillon

  2. Laboratoire de Géologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, PSL Univ., IPSL, Paris, France

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