Impact of temperature on belowground soil decomposition

Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 05:31 in Earth & Climate

Earth's soils store four times more carbon than the atmosphere and small changes in soil carbon storage can have a big effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. A new paper concludes that climate warming does not accelerate soil organic carbon decomposition or affect soil carbon storage, despite increases in ecosystem productivity.

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