Articles | Volume 12, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4861-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-4861-2015
Research article
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17 Aug 2015
Research article |  | 17 Aug 2015

Soil carbon and nitrogen erosion in forested catchments: implications for erosion-induced terrestrial carbon sequestration

E. M. Stacy, S. C. Hart, C. T. Hunsaker, D. W. Johnson, and A. A. Berhe

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In the southern parts of the Sierra Nevada in California, we investigated erosion of carbon and nitrogen from low-order catchments. We found that eroded sediments were OM rich, with a potential for significant gaseous and dissolved loss of OM during transport or after depositional in downslope or downstream depositional landform positions.
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