Five years of whole-soil warming led to loss of subsoil carbon stocks and increased CO 2 efflux

Authors: Jennifer L. Soong, Cristina Castanha, Caitlin Hicks Pries, Nicholas O. E. Ofiti, Rachel Porras, W. J. Riley, Michael W. Schmidt, Margaret Torn - Science Advances 2021 cited by 287

effluxes alone. The high sensitivity of subsoil carbon and the different responses of soil organic matter pools suggest that models must represent these heterogeneous soil dynamics to accurately predict future feedbacks to warming.