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Powlson, D. S. and Galdos, M. V. 2023. Challenging claimed benefits of soil carbon sequestration for mitigating climate change and increasing crop yields: heresy or sober realism? Global Change Biology. pp. 1-3. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16640
Authors | Powlson, D. S. and Galdos, M. V. |
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Abstract | There is overwhelming evidence that increasing the organic carbon (C) content of cropland soil improves its physical, chemical and biological properties, with benefits for the growth of crop roots and the functioning of soils in the wider environment (King et al., 2020; Kopittke et al., 2022; Lal 2020). This is entirely uncontroversial. It is currently relevant because there is evidence that soil organic carbon (SOC) in many cropland soils globally is declining (Sanderman et al., 2017) and is vulnerable to further loss from climate change (Lugato et al., 2021). It may, therefore, seem counterintuitive, and even heretical or downright unhelpful, for a paper to challenge two widely stated claims connected with SOC as is done in the paper entitled “Carbon for soils, not soils for carbon” by Moinet et al. (2023). The two claims challenged by the authors are: |
Keywords | Commentary |
Year of Publication | 2023 |
Journal | Global Change Biology |
Journal citation | pp. 1-3 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16640 |
Open access | Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access |
Funder | Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council |
Funder project or code | S2N - Soil to Nutrition [ISPG] |
Publisher's version | |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Output status | Published |
Publication dates | |
Online | 16 Feb 2023 |
Publication process dates | |
Accepted | 07 Mar 2023 |
Publisher | Wiley |
ISSN | 1354-1013 |
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