{"title":"Plant processes matter","authors":"Alyssa Findlay","doi":"10.1038/s41558-025-02357-3","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>Sajjad Raza, Tino Colombi and colleagues from the University of Nottingham take stock of research on soil carbon and assessed the extent to which plant processes have been investigated in peer-reviewed papers. Using bibliometric analysis, they find that less than 10% of the literature on soil carbon, climate change and land use has considered plant physiology. This represents a blind spot in understanding soil carbon, as well as future feedbacks under climate change. The authors call for the inclusion of plant scientists in soil carbon research and highlight the importance of long-term studies that include measurements of plant physiology alongside estimates of soil carbon stocks.</p><p><b>Original reference:</b> <i>Soil</i> <b>11</b>, 363–369 (2025)</p>","PeriodicalId":18974,"journal":{"name":"Nature Climate Change","volume":"91 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":29.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Climate Change","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02357-3","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Sajjad Raza, Tino Colombi and colleagues from the University of Nottingham take stock of research on soil carbon and assessed the extent to which plant processes have been investigated in peer-reviewed papers. Using bibliometric analysis, they find that less than 10% of the literature on soil carbon, climate change and land use has considered plant physiology. This represents a blind spot in understanding soil carbon, as well as future feedbacks under climate change. The authors call for the inclusion of plant scientists in soil carbon research and highlight the importance of long-term studies that include measurements of plant physiology alongside estimates of soil carbon stocks.
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