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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-635-2023
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Reconciling the paradox of soil organic carbon erosion by water
Kristof Van Oost
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Georges Lemaître Center for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, UCLouvain, Place Louis Pasteur 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, Universitätstrasse 2, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland
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Short summary
The direction and magnitude of the net erosion-induced land–atmosphere C exchange have been the topic of a big scientific debate for more than a decade now. Many have assumed that erosion leads to a loss of soil carbon to the atmosphere, whereas others have shown that erosion ultimately leads to a carbon sink. Here, we show that the soil carbon erosion source–sink paradox is reconciled when the broad range of temporal and spatial scales at which the underlying processes operate are considered.
The direction and magnitude of the net erosion-induced land–atmosphere C exchange have been the...
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