%0 Book Section
%9 OS CH : Chapitres d'ouvrages scientifiques
%A Basile-Doelsch, I.
%A Chevallier, Tiphaine
%A Dignac, M.F.
%A Erktan, Amandine
%T Carbon storage in soils
%B Encyclopedia of soils in the environment
%C Amsterdam (NLD) ; Oxford
%D 2023
%E Blagodatskaya, E.
%E Unc, A.
%L fdi:010094490
%G ENG
%I Elsevier
%@ 978-0-12-822974-3
%K MONDE
%P 228-242
%R 10.1016/b978-0-12-822974-3.00202-0
%U https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010094490
%> https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2025-08/010094490.pdf
%W Horizon (IRD)
%X Soils are a pivotal component in the global carbon cycle, while carbon storage in soils is a natural phenomenon involving organic carbon.

Maintaining or increasing soil carbon levels is beneficial for many ecosystem services. Soil carbon is also a soil condition indicator and

a key focus of several Sustainable Development Goals. This chapter describes the forms of carbon in soils, the quantification of carbon stocks

and storage, the processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of carbon stocks across the planet and their dynamics, land-use changes and

practices that affect soil carbon stocks, as well as the socioeconomic benefits of soil carbon storage.
%S Soil biology
%$ 068EROSOL ; 082ECOSYS ; 068PROSOL