Total removal of livestock from upland grasslands reduces mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC), the most stable form of soil carbon, despite increasing fast-cycling carbon in vegetation.
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Removing livestock from grasslands could compromise long-term soil carbon storage

Grasslands store around one-third of the world’s terrestrial carbon