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(A) soil carbon <br />

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<strong>Soil</strong> Carbon (kg/m2) <br />

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10 <br />

0 <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

ISAM <br />

LPJml <br />

LPJ_GUESS <br />

Tropics Temperate Boreal <br />

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(A) soil carbon <br />

50 <br />

<strong>Soil</strong> Carbon (kg/m2) <br />

40 <br />

30 <br />

20 <br />

10 <br />

0 <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

All "natural" <br />

forest <br />

grassland <br />

shrubland <br />

crop <br />

pasture <br />

ISAM <br />

LPJml <br />

LPJ_GUESS <br />

Tropics Temperate Boreal <br />

Figure 4.4 <strong>Soil</strong> carbon and nitrogen under different land cover types. Source: Smith et al. (in press).<br />

Panel (a) shows mean soil carbon stocks; Panel (b) shows mean soil nitrogen stocks. Based on three<br />

vegetation models ISAM (Jain et al., 2013; El-Masri et al., 2013; Barman, Jain and Liang, 2014 a, b), LPJ-GUESS<br />

(Smith et al., 2001; Pugh et al., 2014); and LPJmL (Bondeau et al., 2007; Schaphoff et al., 2013). The soil carbon<br />

and soil nitrogen are the average over the period 2001 to 2010 (2003 for LPJmL) in model simulations with<br />

historical land-use change, climate, and CO 2<br />

(and N 2<br />

for the ISAM model). All ‘natural’ land is the mean of all<br />

lands without pasture or crop land cover. It includes ‘un-managed’ forest, grassland and shrubland categories<br />

and may include other land cover types depending on the models e.g. bare soil.<br />

Status of the <strong>World’s</strong> <strong>Soil</strong> <strong>Resources</strong> | Main Report <strong>Soil</strong>s and Humans<br />

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