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Mareille Wittnebel et al.: Peat and other organic soils under agricultural use in Germany: Properties and challenges for classification

Annelie Säurich et al.: Substrate quality of drained organic soils – Implications for carbon dioxide fluxes

Jan Oestmann et al.: Greenhouse gas balance of Sphagnum farming on highly decomposed peat at former peat extraction sites

Jumpei Fukumasu, Christopher Poeplau et al.: Oxalate-extractable aluminum alongside carbon inputs may be a major determinant for organic carbon content in agricultural topsoils in humid continental climate

Sophie Drexler et al.: Carbon sequestration in hedgerow biomass and soil in the temperate climate zone

Christopher Poeplau et al.: Roots are key to increasing the mean residence time of organic carbon entering temperate agricultural soils

Tino Peplau et al.: Long-term geothermal warming reduced stocks of carbon but not nitrogen in a subarctic forest soil

Julia Schroeder et al.: Impact of common sample pre-treatments on key soil microbial properties

Thünen-AK organised a week-long Winter School in Eddy Covariance Flux Measurements during 10.-14.6.2019 at the Vuwani Science Resource Centre of the University of Venda in Limpopo, South Africa.

The 4per1000 Initiative launched in at COP21 in Paris aims at increasing soil organic matter for climate mitigation, climate adaptation and food security. The international symposium on soil organic matter management will elucidate options and potentials for soil C sequestration.