Global Charcoal Mobilization from Soils via Dissolution and Riverine Transport to the Oceans
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- 19 April 2013
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 340 (6130), 345-347
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1231476
Abstract
Dissolving Charcoal: Biomass burning produces 40 to 250 million tons of charcoal per year worldwide. Much of this is preserved in soils and sediments for thousands of years. However, the estimated production rate of charcoal is significantly larger than that of decomposition, and Jaffe et al. (p. 345 ; see the Perspective by Masiello and Louchouarn ) calculate that a large fraction of the charcoal produced by fires is lost from the land through dissolution and transport to the oceans.Keywords
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