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Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-755-2025
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-11-755-2025
© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 11, issue 2
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02 Oct 2025
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What if publication bias is the rule and net carbon loss from priming the exception?

Jennifer Michel, Yves Brostaux, Bernard Longdoz, Hervé Vanderschuren, and Pierre Delaplace

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We discuss three aspects to ensure (rhizosphere) priming effects are correctly perceived in their ecological context and measured at appropriate scales. (i) The first aspect is that there is little empirical evidence for net C losses from priming. (ii) The second aspect is critical publication bias. (iii) The third aspect is a need to distinguish between priming effects (PE) and rhizosphere priming effects (RPE).
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