"Human activities, such as deforestation and the expansion of agricultural areas, have [caused] large amounts of carbon [to be] released into the atmosphere, contributing substantially to anthropogenic climate change.

A team led by LMU geographer Raphael Ganzenmüller has now calculated that human influence has reduced natural land carbon stocks by a total of 24%—which corresponds to 344 billion metric tons of carbon."

https://phys.org/news/2025-08-human-natural-carbon-stocks.html
#SoilCarbon

Plants, like grass and food crops, love stable conditions. A farm I'm involved in is doing an experiment with hedgerows and the first graphs are in. Too early to brag, but the results look very much like: hell yeah, hedgerows FTW. This makes me very happy this morning :)

I will have to alert the researcher to #grafiekPolitie before they publish I see ;)

We are adding some 110TB of analysis-ready data to https://EcoDataCube.eu (all cloud-optimized as COGs or PMTiles). The upgraded system includes dynamic soil properties "Soil Health Data Cube" part of the @ai4soilhealth and @earthmonitororg projects, bimonthly time-series of biophysical indices (https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-741-2025), including the vegetation height annual (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-6521333/v1) and #soilcarbon density predictions (https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-5128244/v2). If you notice an issue please report!

Dominant Edaphic Controls On Particulate Organic Carbon In Global Soils
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https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.17619 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #soil #global #soilcarbon #climatechange #particulateorganiccarbon #POC #organiccarbon #empirical #model #modeling #machinelearning #AI #profile #biomes #ecosystems #grassland #pasture #shrubland #forest #boreal #arctic #savannas #sampling

Curious about the spatial distribution of soil organic carbon across the United States? Of course you are! Wang etall 2024 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2023JG007702 used a combination clustering and random forest approach to upscale point estimates of soil carbon stocks. #SoilCarbon #Upscale #SciLit

I'm a co-author here! Join me on a read through of this paper 1/n

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

First toot - Hi Mastodon, here comes a #SoilScientist who will mainly post about #Science and #SoilCarbon in particular. ...and, you´ll see I always try to illustrate the work of our research group with some photos ;) #Rhizosphere #ClimateChange #Rewilding #MAOM #POM #SoilOrganicMatter #Mycorrhiza

"Beneath our feet, a vast network of fungus spreads like a web. Mycorrhizal fungi connect the roots of plants to the surrounding soil, facilitating the exchange of water and nutrients for sugars from the sun and playing a vital role in the health of terrestrial ecosystems. Now, this “wood wide web” is getting a conservation boost."

#Conservation #ClimateChange #News #Environment #Fungi #Biodiversity #SoilCarbon

https://news.mongabay.com/2022/11/mycorrhizal-fungi-natures-wood-wide-web-get-a-3m-conservation-boost/