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SUBMITTER: Yue Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4914144 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yue Yao Y Ni Jinren J Ciais Philippe P Piao Shilong S Wang Tao T Huang Mengtian M Borthwick Alistair G L AG Li Tianhong T Wang Yichu Y Chappell Adrian A Van Oost Kristof K
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20160531 24
Soil erosion by water impacts soil organic carbon stocks and alters CO2 fluxes exchanged with the atmosphere. The role of erosion as a net sink or source of atmospheric CO2 remains highly debated, and little information is available at scales larger than small catchments or regions. This study attempts to quantify the lateral transport of soil carbon and consequent land-atmosphere CO2 fluxes at the scale of China, where severe erosion has occurred for several decades. Based on the distribution o ...[more]