ArticleScience advances2021
Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO
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- A Radiocarbon-Based Framework to Assess Soil Organic Carbon Persistence and Vulnerability Across Land-Use Types.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Decadal extreme drought reduces alpine subsoil carbon stocks.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Shifts in Microbial Thermal Traits Mitigate Heat-Induced Carbon Losses in Soils.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Carbon costs of different pathways for reducing fire hazard in the Sierra Nevada.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
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- Fine-root dynamics in deeper soils: a critical but overlooked component of ecosystem responses to climate warming.The New phytologist · 2025Review
- Reply to Ju et al.: Mechanisms of deeper soil organic carbon loss.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Shifting Carbon Fractions in Forest Soils OffsetGlobal change biology · 2025Article
- Degradable film mulching increases soil carbon sequestration in major Chinese dryland agroecosystems.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Altered precipitation and nighttime warming reshape the vertical distribution of soil microbial communities.mSystems · 2025Article
- Microbial resistance in agricultural subsoils.Nature food · 2025Article
- Agricultural subsoil microbiomes and functions exhibit lower resistance to global change than topsoils in Chinese agroecosystems.Nature food · 2025Article
- Microplastics Generate Less Mineral Protection of Soil Carbon and More COAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Subsoils below 20 cm are an important reservoir in the global carbon cycle, but little is known about their vulnerability under climate change. We measured a statistically significant loss of subsoil carbon (-33 ± 11%) in warmed plots of a conifer forest after 4.5 years of whole-soil warming (4°C). The loss of subsoil carbon was primarily from unprotected particulate organic matter. Warming also stimulated a sustained 30 ± 4% increase in soil CO
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