ArticleNature communications2025
Globally increased cropland soil exposure to climate extremes in recent decades.
Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Priming Effects on Soil Organic Matter Mineralization by Carbon Substrates: A Global Meta-Analysis.Global change biology · 2026Pooled it
- Soil organic carbon assessment in perennial agriculture - a base study of Kernza in Alnarp, Sweden.Environmental monitoring and assessment · 2026Article
- Multi-hazard exposure and vulnerability drive rising agricultural risk in global breadbasket regions.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Rhizosphere microbial functions drive ecological stoichiometry in soils across an elevational gradient of a temperate mountain ecosystem.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Spatio-temporal dynamics and drivers of cropland ecosystem services value during the past two decades in Yangtze river economic belt, China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Soil quality is fundamental to nutrient-rich food production and the sustainability of terrestrial ecosystems. However, inappropriate agricultural practices often lead to persistent soil exposure to air and sunlight, which increases soil organic matter losses and erosion risks, particularly under climate extremes. Here, we provide a satellite-based mapping of daily soil exposure occurrence across global croplands from 2001 to 2022 and evaluate the associated degradation risks caused by extreme climate events. We find that while 57% of global croplands experienced a reduction in soil exposure duration in the past two decades, 86% are increasingly subjected to climate extremes. The areas exposed to increasing climate extremes tend to have higher soil organic carbon levels, indicating an intensified degradation risk of global nutrient-rich cropland soils. Our study offers spatio-temporally explicit insights into global cropland soil exposure and its vulnerability to climate extremes, providing evidence to support improvements in sustainable agriculture practices.
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