Quantifying direct yield benefits of soil carbon increases from cover crop**

I Vendig, A Guzman, G De La Cerda, K Esquivel… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Cropland management practices that restore soil organic carbon (SOC) are increasingly
presented as climate solutions that also enhance yields. But how often these benefits align …

Grounding United States policies and programs in soil carbon science: strengths, limitations, and opportunities

DL Gelardi, D Rath, CE Kruger - Frontiers in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The advent of “natural climate solutions” and “climate smart agriculture” has increased
interest in managing agricultural lands to sequester soil carbon and mitigate climate change …

Responses of soil organic carbon to climate extremes under warming across global biomes

M Wang, S Zhang, X Guo, L **ao, Y Yang, Y Luo… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
The impact of more extreme climate conditions under global warming on soil organic carbon
(SOC) dynamics remains unquantified. Here we estimate the response of SOC to climate …

Research advances in mechanisms of climate change impacts on soil organic carbon dynamics

Y Guo, Z Zeng, J Wang, J Zou, Z Shi… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Soil, as the largest terrestrial carbon pool, has garnered significant attention 15 concerning
its response to global warming. However, accurately estimating the stocks and 16 dynamics …

A global synthesis and conceptualization of the magnitude and duration of soil carbon losses in response to forest disturbances

M Mayer, A Baltensweiler, J James… - Global Ecology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Forest disturbances are increasing around the globe due to changes in climate and
management, deteriorating forests' carbon sink strength. Estimates of global forest carbon …

[HTML][HTML] Priming effects decrease with the quantity of cover crop residues–Potential implications for soil carbon sequestration

Z Liang, J Rasmussen, C Poeplau… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Meta-analyses suggest a global potential of cover crops to increase soil organic carbon
(SOC) stocks, yet with a large variation across studies, which underlines the need to …

Cropland-to-shrubland conversion reduces soil water storage and contributes little to soil carbon sequestration in a dryland area

C Liu, X Jia, L Ren, C Zhao, Y Yao, Y Zhang… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2023 - Elsevier
The conversion of croplands to shrublands is a common approach used to control soil
erosion in the drylands of the Loess Plateau in China and affects the soil, water, and carbon …

Dynamic modeling of topsoil organic carbon and its scenarios forecast in global Mollisols regions

Y Bao, F Yao, X Meng, J Fan, J Zhang, H Liu… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Global Mollisols regions play crucial roles in maintaining world food security, performing
ecosystem services and global carbon cycling. Little is known about the spatial and temporal …

Crop diversification promotes soil aggregation and carbon accumulation in global agroecosystems: A meta-analysis

G Li, C Yu, P Shen, Y Hou, Z Ren, N Li, Y Liao… - Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Soil aggregation contributes to the stability of soil structure and the sequestration of soil
organic carbon (SOC), making it an important indicator of soil health in agroecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Experimental drought increased the belowground sink strength towards higher topsoil organic carbon stocks in a temperate mature forest

M Brunn, J Krüger, F Lang - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Reduced carbon assimilation by trees is often considered to lower the overall carbon sink
function of drought-stressed forests. However, soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks may …