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Long-term bare-fallow soil fractions reveal thermo-chemical properties controlling soil organic carbon dynamics
Mathieu Chassé
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Sorbonne Université, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, UMR CNRS 7590, IRD, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie, IMPMC, 75005 Paris, France
Suzanne Lutfalla
Laboratoire de Géologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, Université PSL, IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Université Paris–Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
Lauric Cécillon
Laboratoire de Géologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, Université PSL, IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Laboratoire ECODIV, Univ. Normandie, UNIROUEN, INRAE, FR Scale CNRS 3730, 76000 Rouen, France
François Baudin
Sorbonne Université, CNRS UMR 7193, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (ISTeP), 75005 Paris, France
Samuel Abiven
Laboratoire de Géologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, Université PSL, IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
Department of Geography, University of Zurich, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland
Centre de recherche en écologie expérimentale et prédictive (CEREEP–Ecotron IleDeFrance), Département de biologie de l'ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, 77140 St-Pierre-lès-Nemours, France
Claire Chenu
Université Paris–Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon, France
Pierre Barré
Laboratoire de Géologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, Université PSL, IPSL, 75005 Paris, France
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Evolution of organic carbon content in soils could be a major driver of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations over the next century. Understanding factors controlling carbon persistence in soil is a challenge. Our study of unique long-term bare-fallow samples, depleted in labile organic carbon, helps improve the separation, evaluation and characterization of carbon pools with distinct residence time in soils and gives insight into the mechanisms explaining soil organic carbon persistence.
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