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Subsoil carbon loss

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A field-based study of 4.5 years of whole-soil warming reveals that warming stimulates loss of structurally complex organic carbon at the same rate as that for bulk organic carbon in subsoil.

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Fig. 1: Effects of warming on soil carbon dynamics.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi’an, China

    Ji Chen

  2. Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark

    Ji Chen

  3. iCLIMATE Interdisciplinary Centre for Climate Change, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

    Ji Chen

  4. School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    Yiqi Luo

  5. Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA

    Robert L. Sinsabaugh

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Chen, J., Luo, Y. & Sinsabaugh, R.L. Subsoil carbon loss. Nat. Geosci. 16, 284–285 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01164-9

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