Keryn I. Paul

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed global data on changes in soil C following afforestation, available from 43 published or unpublished studies, encompassing 204 sites, and found that most soil C was lost when softwoods, particularly Pinus radiata plantations, were established on ex-improved pastoral land in temperate regions.

TL;DR: A global, one-kilometre-resolution map of potential aboveground carbon accumulation rates for the first 30 years of natural forest regrowth is presented, indicating that default rates from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) may be underestimated and maximum climate mitigation potential from natural forest Regrowth is 11 per cent lower than previously reported.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify and define the best way of expressing soil water and its effect on net mineralization across a range of soil types and find that relative water content, particularly when expressed relative to an upper and lower limit of water content observed in the field, was the best descriptor for net mineralisation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of direct heterotrophic respiration dependence on soil moisture on the climate-carbon cycle feedback and found that global changes in soil moisture acted to oppose temperature-driven decreases in soil carbon and hence tended to increase soil carbon storage.

TL;DR: A complete carbon accounting model for forest systems, GRC3, links a C tracking model (CAMFor) with independently verified models of forest growth (3PG), litter decomposition (GENDEC) and soil C turnover (RothC).