Soils as natural carbon solutions need careful language to evaluate the effectiveness of various strategies. Specifically language distinguishing (1) accrual vs loss reduction, (2) additional storage vs total stocks, (3) C-SOC sourced from C-CO2, and (4) permanence of flux. Currently literature has been remarkably sloppy about these distinctions. Don etal 2023 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gcb.16983 #CarbonDrawDown #Ontology #SoilPractices #agricultural #FirstOrderLinearDecay #SoilPractices
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Geostatistics in soils are often ignored with significant opportunities for misinterpretation of carbon storage resulting from interventions. Slessarev etal 2023 https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16491 takes us back to stats class, highlighting regression to the mean effects and normalization artifacts. #SoilCarbon #SoilPractices #agricultural #CitationMine #Geostatistics #SciLit

Soils of old growth forests are NOT necessarily at steady state. Gaines in soil organic carbon stocks (~30%) were are seen in one southern China preserve from 1979 to 2003. Zhou etal 2006 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1130168 #SoilCarbon #SoilPractices #SoilSampleDesign #SciLit