Nature – Liu et al. (2025): Unprotected carbon dominates decadal soil carbon increase
Minglong Liu, Shilu Zheng, Elise Pendall, Pete Smith, Jiajia Liu, Jinquan Li, Changming Fang, Bo Li, Ming Nie IN: Nature Communications, 16, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-57354-z
Changes in the distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) fractions – particulate organic carbon (POC; unprotected carbon) vs. mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC; protected carbon) – affect SOC storage and stability. Here, the authors compile a SOC fraction dataset from 7219 soil samples across six continents.