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This article shows that the retention of soil organic carbon is proportional to clay+silt contents, in a tropical savanna.
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Why is it important?
This was among the first papers to mathematically demonstrate that carbon retention in soils is controlled by soil texture, from the soil surface to a 1-m depth.
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This page is a summary of: Texture and organic carbon relations described by a profile pedotransfer function for Brazilian Cerrado soils, Geoderma, July 2005, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2005.02.010.
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