A field-based study of 4.5 years of whole-soil warming reveals that warming stimulates loss of structurally complex organic carbon at the same rate as that for bulk organic carbon in subsoil.
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Chen, J., Luo, Y. & Sinsabaugh, R.L. Subsoil carbon loss. Nat. Geosci. 16, 284–285 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-023-01164-9
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