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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-1029-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-1029-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Original research article
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02 Dec 2025
Original research article |  | 02 Dec 2025

Soil carbon accrual and biopore formation across a plant diversity gradient

Kyungmin Kim, Maik Geers-Lucas, G. Philip Robertson, and Alexandra N. Kravchenko

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We looked at soil carbon storage in bioenergy crop fields that had different levels of plant diversity over 12 years. We discovered that biopores – small holes in the soil formed as roots grow, die, and decompose – are closely linked to the amount of organic carbon in the soil. When there are more biopores, there’s more surface where roots touch the soil, which helps carbon from plants spread out and get stored better.
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