Carbon sequestration in the subsoil and the time required to stabilize carbon for climate change mitigation

CA Sierra, B Ahrens, MA Bolinder… - Global Change …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Soils store large quantities of carbon in the subsoil (below 0.2 m depth) that is generally old
and believed to be stabilized over centuries to millennia, which suggests that subsoil carbon …

The dynamic trajectory of carbon dioxide removal from terrestrial ecosystem restoration: A critical review

S Niu, R Zhang, S Wang, Y Wu, W Chen, D Tian… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2024 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic climate change poses a significant threat to global ecosystems, necessitating
nature-based solutions to achieve net-zero emissions and mitigate climate change …

Carbon gain in upper but loss in deeper cropland soils across China over the last four decades

Z Zhou, C Wang, Y Li, X Wang, X He, M Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
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 …

Microaggregates regulate the soil organic carbon sequestration and carbon flow of windproof sand fixation forests in desert ecosystems

G Zhao, M Cong, Z Zhang, F Zeng, X Dong, J Song - Catena, 2024 - Elsevier
Afforestation improves the soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration by affecting aggregates
formation. However, the impact of the establishment and development of windproof sand …

Toward soil carbon storage: The influence of parent material and vegetation on profile-scale microbial community structure and necromass accumulation

YZ Li, XL Bao, SX Tang, KQ ** systems increased topsoil carbon and nitrogen stocks over annual systems—a nine-year field study
Y Shang, JE Olesen, PE Lærke, K Manevski… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2024 - Elsevier
Enhancing biomass yield simultaneously with soil carbon (C) sequestration is a key aim of
climate-smart crop** systems. Perennialization is believed to be a suitable mitigation …

The response of soil microbial necromass carbon to global change: A global meta-analysis

W Wu, J Feng, X Wang, J **ao, W Qin, B Zhu - Catena, 2025 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is the largest carbon pool of terrestrial ecosystems and it is
vulnerable to global change. As an important component of SOC, soil microbial necromass …

Simulating adaptive grazing management on soil organic carbon in the Southeast USA using MEMS 2

RS Santos, EK Hamilton, PL Stanley, K Paustian… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Grazing lands play a significant role in global carbon (C) dynamics, holding substantial soil
organic carbon (SOC) stocks. However, historical mismanagement (eg, overgrazing and …

[HTML][HTML] Land use selectively impacts soil carbon storage in particulate, water-extractable, and mineral-associated forms across pedogenetic horizons

CO Anuo, M Sleem, B Fossum, L Li, JA Cooper… - Geoderma, 2024 - Elsevier
Improved understanding of land use derived changes in soil organic matter (OM)
compartments stabilized to different degrees against microbial decomposition is required for …

Afforestation reduces deep soil carbon sequestration in semiarid regions: Lessons from variations of soil water and carbon along afforestation stages in China's Loess …

Y Huang, G Gao, L Ran, Y Wang… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Afforestation represents an effective approach for ecosystem restoration and carbon (C)
sequestration. Nonetheless, it poses notable challenges concerning water depletion and …