The capacity of soils to store organic carbon represents a key function of soils that is not only
decisive for climate regulation but also affects other soil functions. Recent efforts to assess …

Human impacts prior to the Industrial Revolution are not well constrained. We investigate
whether the decline in global atmospheric CO 2 concentration by 7–10 ppm in the late …

To constrain global warming, we must strongly curtail greenhouse gas emissions and
capture excess atmospheric carbon dioxide,. Regrowing natural forests is a prominent …

The '4 per mille Soils for Food Security and Climate'was launched at the COP21 with an
aspiration to increase global soil organic matter stocks by 4 per 1000 (or 0.4%) per year as a …

Soils under natural, tropical forests provide essential ecosystem services that have been
shaped by long-term soil–vegetation feedbacks. However, deforestation of tropical forest …

Time is divided by geologists according to marked shifts in Earth's state. Recent global
environmental changes suggest that Earth may have entered a new human-dominated …

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost
exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these “pristine” …

Forest restoration increases organic carbon (OC) sequestration mainly via the additional
litter input and improvements in soil structure that result in biochemical and physical C …

Forest degradation is a global environmental issue, but its definition is problematic.
Difficulties include choosing appropriate reference states, timescales, thresholds, and forest …

Plant species richness (PSR) is known to affect soil organic carbon (SOC) storage. However,
due to the complex origin and composition of SOC, mechanisms driving the PSR-SOC …