Lake floodplains as sinks for stable soil organic carbon: is the carbon plant- or microbe-derived, and why does permanent land use matter?
Toky Jeriniaina Rabearison, Jim Félix-Faure, François Guillemette…·Vincent Maire
The paper examines how land use affects soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in floodplains, finding that permanent meadows and forests maximize SOC, while microbial inputs dominate stable SOC.