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The Centre&#39;s research programme on soil carbon is designed to move beyond quantifying how much soil carbon is stored in agricultural soils into the challenging area of understanding the processes driving soil carbon storage and, crucially, manipulating these processes so that agricultural soil carbon is conserved and, where possible, increased. The first steps in this process are determining the maximum potential of our soils to store carbon and determining how close our soils are to this potential. Using a mix of modelling and experimental approaches, we will better identify and understand which processes are influencing soil carbon storage and test the outcome of controlled perturbations including the use of biochar. Finally we address the important scientific and policy issue of how to more accurately measure changes in soil carbon stocks.
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People</span>
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