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ArticleNational science review2026

Climate change leads to significant loss of soil inorganic carbon.

Jin Hu, Zelin Huang, Zhongxiu Sun, Xiaodong Song, Yuanyuan Huang, Kazem Zamanian, Feng Tao, Fei Yang, Huiying Wen, Ganlin Zhang

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Article in National science review, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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10 authors.

Jin HuState Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.
Zelin HuangState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.
Zhongxiu SunCollege of Land and Environment, Shenyang Agricultural University, Shenyang 110866, China.
Xiaodong SongCollege of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Yuanyuan HuangKey Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4202-8071
Kazem ZamanianInstitute of Earth System Sciences, Section Soil Science, Leibniz University of Hanover, Hanover 30419, Germany.
Feng TaoDepartment of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
Fei YangState Key Laboratory of Soil and Sustainable Agriculture, Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.
Huiying WenCollege of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Ganlin ZhangState Key Laboratory of Lake and Watershed Science for Water Security, Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 211135, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Soil inorganic carbon (SIC) pools are comparable in size to soil organic carbon pools and are vulnerable to climate change; however, SIC responses to climate change remain uncertain because of the lack of process-based simulations. Here, we developed a new process-based model integrating daily water balance dynamics with carbonate chemical equilibria at a 10 cm vertical resolution to predict the effects of climate change on the SIC pool down to a soil depth of 2 m in China until 2100. We found that across the four shared socioeconomic pathways, SIC stock in China's topsoil (0-10 cm) decreased by 314 ± 8 Tg C, accompanied by a loss of 217 ± 9 Tg C from the 2 m soils. These findings challenge the traditional view of SIC stability in terrestrial carbon cycles, reveal substantial losses of SIC in both topsoils and deep soils, and highlight the projection of future climate and global inorganic carbon cycle feedback.

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carbonateChinaclimate changeprocess-based modelsoil inorganic carbon

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PMCPMC12993447

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