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Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4107-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-22-4107-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 22, issue 16
Research article
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25 Aug 2025
Research article |  | 25 Aug 2025

Drivers of soil organic carbon from temperate to alpine forests: a model-based analysis of the Swiss forest soil inventory with Yasso20

Claudia Guidi, Sia Gosheva-Oney, Markus Didion, Roman Flury, Lorenz Walthert, Stephan Zimmermann, Brian J. Oney, Pascal A. Niklaus, Esther Thürig, Toni Viskari, Jari Liski, and Frank Hagedorn

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Predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in forests is crucial to determining the C balance, yet drivers of SOC stocks remain uncertain at large scales. Across a broad environmental gradient in Switzerland, we compared measured SOC stocks with those modeled by Yasso, which is commonly used for greenhouse gas budgets. We show that soil mineral properties and climate are the main controls of SOC stocks, indicating that better accounting of these processes will advance the accuracy of SOC stock predictions.
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