A team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—including BFI affiliated faculty Margaret Torn—found that soils could release more carbon dioxide in response to global warming than predicted in existing studies. Unlike previous experiments and models, the team looked at how organic carbon levels in all soil layers—up to 100 centimeters deep in this case—responded to warmer temperatures, rather than just studying the surface layer.
Read the full study in Science and a synopsis here.
A team of researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—including BFI affiliated faculty Margaret Torn—found that soils could release more carbon dioxide in response to global warming than predicted in existing studies. Unlike previous experiments and models, the team looked at how organic carbon levels in all soil layers—up to 100 centimeters deep in this case—responded to warmer temperatures, rather than just studying the surface layer.
Read the full study in Science and a synopsis here.
