Study helps assess impact of temperature on belowground soil decomposition

Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 14:31 in Earth & Climate

The Earth's soils store four times more carbon than the atmosphere and small changes in soil carbon storage can have a big effect on atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations. A new paper in the journal Nature Climate Change concludes that climate warming does not accelerate soil organic carbon decomposition or affect soil carbon storage, despite increases in ecosystem productivity.

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