Carbon stored in soils more vulnerable to climate change than expected

Carbon stored in soils more vulnerable to climate change than expected
Exeter, UK (SPX) Sep 05, 2014 - The response of soil microbial communities to changes in temperature increases the potential for more carbon dioxide to be released from the world's soils as global temperatures rise, scientists have revealed. The potential for global warming to stimulate decomposition rates in soils, and thus release large quantities of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, has long been considered to be one ... more

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