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A dual response

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European mineral soils may lose less organic carbon due to climate change than previously suggested, according to analyses of climate responses from two physical fractions of soil carbon.

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Fig. 1: Topsoils beneath a melting snow cover of a mountainous grassland in French Alps.

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Cécillon, L. A dual response. Nat. Geosci. 14, 262–263 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-021-00749-6

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