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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-635-2023
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-635-2023
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16 Feb 2023
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Reconciling the paradox of soil organic carbon erosion by water

Kristof Van Oost and Johan Six

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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.
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