Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-451-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-451-2024
Original research article
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04 Jul 2024
Original research article |  | 04 Jul 2024

The influence of land use and management on the behaviour and persistence of soil organic carbon in a subtropical Ferralsol

Laura Hondroudakis, Peter M. Kopittke, Ram C. Dalal, Meghan Barnard, and Zhe H. Weng

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Land use change to cropping is known to greatly reduced organic carbon and nitrogen concentrations, but much remains unknown about the mechanisms influencing their persistence in soil. In a soil from a subtropical Australian cropping system, we demonstrate that organic carbon is protected by mineral associations but not particulate forms. Importantly, we also show that reversion from cropping to pasture or plantation can partially restore this organic carbon.
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