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Glob Chang Biol
; 30(3): e17229, 2024 Feb.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-38511643
RESUMO
A clear definition of carbon sequestration in soils is necessary to quantify soil's role in climate change mitigation accurately. Don et al. (2023) proposed defining carbon sequestration as "[the] Process of transferring carbon from the atmosphere into the soil through plants or other organisms, which is retained as soil organic carbon resulting in a global carbon stock increase of the soil". In our view, this definition is incomplete because a comprehensive definition of carbon sequestration should explicitly include the time that carbon remains stored in an ecosystem, thus mitigating its contribution to the greenhouse effect.