Evidences of plants’ impact on land degradation and climate change: An urgent call for new multidisciplinary research

Vincent Chaplot (1, 2)

1 LOCEAN - Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques
2 School of Agricultural, Earth and Environmental Sciences (SAEES)

Atmospheric carbon has been stored in soils for thousands of years in the form of organic matter which associates carbon to key plant nutrients. Recent analysis reveals that when facing nutrient deficiency, plants decompose soil organic matter to mine nutrients and carbon is released into the atmosphere which causes land degradation and climate change.

Domaines: Géophysique [physics.geo-ph]

Vincent Chaplot. Evidences of plants’ impact on land degradation and climate change: An urgent call for new multidisciplinary research. Geoderma, 2021, 392, pp.114984. ⟨10.1016/j.geoderma.2021.114984⟩. ⟨hal-03244493⟩