This work was conducted as part of project SASCHA (‘sustainable land management and adaptation strategies to climate change for the Western Siberian grain belt’). We are grateful for funding by the German Government, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, within their Sustainable Land Management funding framework (funding reference 01LL0906F). Our work was supported by the laboratory of the Institute of Landscape Ecology. The help of Ulrike Berning-Mader, Madeleine Supper and Melanie Tappe in C/N analyses and the assistance of Martin Freitag, Cordula Knabe, Isabella Närdemann and Sabrina Wittig are greatly acknowledged. Wanja Mathar and Sarah Weking are gratefully acknowledged for their help during fieldwork. Thanks to Andrey Tolstikov and Roman Latyntsev for organizing our field campaigns in Russia and establishing partnerships with Russian colleagues. We thank two anonymous reviewers for improving an earlier version of this manuscript.
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research Group, Institute of Landscape Ecology, University of Münster, Heisenbergstraße 2, Münster, Germany; Vegetation Ecology and Botany Group, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Osnabrück, Germany; Tyumen State University, Semakova Str. 10, Tyumen, Russian Federation
Recommended Citation:
Wertebach T.-M.,Hölzel N.,Kämpf I.,et al. Soil carbon sequestration due to post-Soviet cropland abandonment: estimates from a large-scale soil organic carbon field inventory[J]. Global Change Biology,2017-01-01,23(9)