Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Global stocks and capacity of mineral-associated soil organic carbon

  • Katerina Georgiou,
  • Robert B. Jackson,
  • Olga Vindušková,
  • Rose Z. Abramoff,
  • Anders Ahlström,
  • Wenting Feng,
  • Jennifer W. Harden,
  • Adam F. A. Pellegrini,
  • H. Wayne Polley,
  • Jennifer L. Soong,
  • William J. Riley,
  • Margaret S. Torn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31540-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Mineral-organic associations play a key role in soil carbon preservation. Here, Georgiou et al. produce global estimates of mineral-associated soil carbon, providing insight into the world’s soils and their capacity to store carbon