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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-795-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-795-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Original research article
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12 Nov 2024
Original research article |
| 12 Nov 2024
| 12 Nov 2024
Investigating the complementarity of thermal and physical soil organic carbon fractions
Amicie A. Delahaie
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
Lauric Cécillon
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
Marija Stojanova
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
Samuel Abiven
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
Pierre Arbelet
Greenback (commercial name: Genesis), Paris, France
Dominique Arrouays
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
François Baudin
UMR ISTeP 7193, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris, France
Antonio Bispo
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Line Boulonne
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Claire Chenu
UMR ECOSYS, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris Saclay, 91123 Palaiseau, France
Jussi Heinonsalo
Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Claudy Jolivet
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Kristiina Karhu
Department of Forest Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Manuel Martin
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Lorenza Pacini
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
Greenback (commercial name: Genesis), Paris, France
Christopher Poeplau
Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany
Céline Ratié
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Pierre Roudier
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Te Papaioea / Palmerston North, Aotearoa / New Zealand
Nicolas P. A. Saby
INRAE, Info&Sols, 45075, Orléans, France
Florence Savignac
UMR ISTeP 7193, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Paris, France
Pierre Barré
Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, PSL University, IPSL, Paris, France
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Short summary
This paper compares the soil organic carbon fractions obtained from a new thermal fractionation scheme and a well-known physical fractionation scheme on an unprecedented dataset of French topsoil samples. For each fraction, we use a machine learning model to determine its environmental drivers (pedology, climate, and land cover). Our results suggest that these two fractionation schemes provide different fractions, which means they provide complementary information.
This paper compares the soil organic carbon fractions obtained from a new thermal fractionation...
