Global soil carbon: understanding and managing the largest terrestrial carbon pool
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Carbon stored in soils worldwide exceeds the amount of carbon stored in phytomass and the atmosphere. Despite the large quantity of carbon stored as soil organic carbon (SOC), consensus is lacking on the size of global SOC stocks, their spatial distribution, and the carbon emissions from soils due to changes in land use and land cover. This article summarizes published estimates of global SOC stocks through time and provides an overview of the likely impacts of management options on SOC stocks. We then discuss the implications of existing knowledge of SOC stocks, their geographical distribution and the emissions due to management regimes on policy decisions, and the need for better soil carbon science to mitigate losses and enhance soil carbon stocks.
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- Authors
- Scharlemann, J. P., Tanner, E. V., Hiederer, R., & Kapos, V.
- Affiliations
- University of Sussex (GB)
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- European Commission (BE)
- UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (GB)
- Venue
- Carbon Management
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2014-02
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 81-91
- ISSN
- 1758-3004 (ISSN-L)
- 1758-3012
- OpenAlex
- W1969543759
- Cited by
- 1,612
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 78 · 2025: 178 · 2024: 222 · 2023: 232 · 2022: 224 · 2021: 170 · 2020: 146 · 2019: 100 · 2018: 94 · 2017: 83 · 2016: 43 · 2015: 31 · 2014: 11
- FWCI
- 79.32
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Carbon Management (publishedVersion)
- Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- Arcadia Fund
- Cambridge Conservation Initiative
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Environmental Engineering › Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Keywords
- soil organic carbon, spatial distribution of soil carbon, land use and land cover change, soil carbon emissions, soil carbon management, carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation policy
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