Global soil profiles indicate depth-dependent soil carbon losses under a warmer climate

oleh: Mingming Wang, Xiaowei Guo, Shuai Zhang, Liujun Xiao, Umakant Mishra, Yuanhe Yang, Biao Zhu, Guocheng Wang, Xiali Mao, Tian Qian, Tong Jiang, Zhou Shi, Zhongkui Luo

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2022-09-01

Deskripsi

The response of soil organic carbon to climate warming may be soil depth-dependent, but remains unquantified in situ. Here the authors show that warming induces more proportional soil carbon losses in topsoil than in subsoil, particularly from high-latitudinal carbon-rich soils.