ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025
Carbon gain in upper but loss in deeper cropland soils across China over the last four decades.
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- Optimal Grazing Exclusion Duration to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Degraded Grasslands.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Pooled it
- National Evidence of Depth-Dependent Stabilization and Controls of Soil Organic Carbon in Dryland Croplands.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Microbial inoculants with straw mediate degradation-level-specific changes in soil carbon cycling genes and microbial community.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Grassland restoration in typical wind-eroded regions effectively increase soil organic carbon.PloS one · 2026Article
- A national soil organic carbon density dataset (2010-2024) in China.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Downward movement of nitrate stimulates losses of soil organic carbon in deeper soil layers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- 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
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Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) in agricultural systems is a primary nature-based option for mitigating climate change, improving soil fertility, and ensuring food security. However, the consequences of global warming and increases in carbon inputs on cropland SOC stocks over the last few decades remain largely unknown, particularly in deeper soil layers. Here, by using repeated measurements, we reassess variations in SOC stocks across a 0 to 100 cm soil profile at the same locations in China's upland croplands in 1980 and 2023. We observe an overall net accumulation of 0.74 Pg SOC (7%) with a mean sequestration rate of 13.7 g SOC m
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