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Carbon losses from all soils across England and Wales 1978–2003

Bellamy, Pat H., Loveland, Peter J., Bradley, R. Ian, Lark, R. Murray, Kirk, Guy J. D.·2005·Nature

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More than twice as much carbon is held in soils as in vegetation or the atmosphere, and changes in soil carbon content can have a large effect on the global carbon budget. The possibility that climate change is being reinforced by increased carbon dioxide emissions from soils owing to rising temperature is the subject of a continuing debate. But evidence for the suggested feedback mechanism has to date come solely from small-scale laboratory and field experiments and modelling studies. Here we use data from the National Soil Inventory of England and Wales obtained between 1978 and 2003 to show that carbon was lost from soils across England and Wales over the survey period at a mean rate of 0.6% yr(-1) (relative to the existing soil carbon content). We find that the relative rate of carbon loss increased with soil carbon content and was more than 2% yr(-1) in soils with carbon contents greater than 100 g kg(-1). The relationship between rate of carbon loss and carbon content is irrespective of land use, suggesting a link to climate change. Our findings indicate that losses of soil carbon in England and Wales--and by inference in other temperate regions-are likely to have been offsetting absorption of carbon by terrestrial sinks.

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Authors: Bellamy, P. H., Loveland, P. J., Bradley, R. I., Lark, R. M., & Kirk, G. J. D.
Affiliations: Cranfield University (GB)
Rothamsted Research (GB)
Corresponding author: Kirk, Guy J. D.
ORCID: Bellamy, Pat H.
Lark, R. Murray
Kirk, Guy J. D.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2005-09
Volume: 437
Issue: 7056
Pages: 245-248
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature04038
OpenAlex: W2013840199
Cited by: 1,131
References: 31
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 35 · 2023: 33 · 2022: 42 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 42 · 2018: 50 · 2017: 50 · 2016: 61 · 2015: 52 · 2014: 71 · 2013: 54 · 2012: 64
FWCI: 110.59
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Rothamsted Repository (Rothamsted Repository) (submittedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
CERES (Cranfield University) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
Keywords: soil carbon loss, soil carbon feedback, climate change, global carbon budget, soil carbon content, terrestrial carbon sink, England and Wales
MeSH terms: Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, England, Poaceae, Soil, Soil Microbiology, Temperature, Wales, Water, Linear Models, Greenhouse Effect, Ecosystem, History, 20th Century, History, 21st Century

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