Articles | Volume 4, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-153-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-153-2018
Original research article
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06 Jun 2018
Original research article |  | 06 Jun 2018

Hot regions of labile and stable soil organic carbon in Germany – Spatial variability and driving factors

Cora Vos, Angélica Jaconi, Anna Jacobs, and Axel Don

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Short summary
Soil organic carbon sequestration can be facilitated by agricultural management, but its influence is not the same on all soil carbon pools. We assessed how soil organic carbon is distributed among C pools in Germany, identified factors influencing this distribution and identified regions with high vulnerability to C losses. Explanatory variables were soil texture, C / N ratio, soil C content and pH. For some regions, the drivers were linked to the land-use history as heathlands or peatlands.