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<h1>Soil carbon within the global C cycle</h1>

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<h1> Primary controls on soil carbon development </h1>
 <h2> Climate controls </h2>
  <h3> Climate and soil development, geomorphology </h3>
  <h3>Climate and plant distribution </h3>
  <h3>Global carbon modeling </h3> 
 <h2> Biotic controls </h2>
  <h3>Carbon fixation, partitioning, and allocation </h3>
  <h3> Soil ecosystems </h3>
  <h3> Microbial control of carbon flow </h3>

<h1> Secondary controls on carbon turnover </h1>
 <h2> Conceptual framework </h2>
 <h2> Stabilization mechanisms </h2>
  <h3> Physical protection of organic matter in aggregates </h3>
  <h3> Mineral association </h3> 
  <h3> Accessibility to microbes </h3>

<h1> Quantitative methods </h1>
 <h2> Soil fractions </h2>
  <h3> Mineral </h3> 
  <h3> Physical </h2>
  <h3> Spectral or thermal </h3>
  <h3> Chemical </h3>
  <h3> Biological </h3>
 <h2> Carbon isotopes </h2>
  <h3> Stable isotopes </h3>
  <h3> Radiocarbon </h3>

<h1> Scientific Process </h1>
 <h2> Scientific Process </h2>
  <h3> Scientific Method and hypothesis testing </h3>
  <h3> Big data - how it can be used to solve problems </h3>
  <h3> Observations and SOM theory </h3>
  <h3> Partitioning of SOM stocks (methods, models, theory) </h3>
  <h3> Models of SOM dynamics </h3>

<h1> Problem-based questions - case studies </h1>
 <h2> Capacity </h2>
  <h3> SOM storage capacity, carbon saturation </h3>
 <h2> Change </h2>
  <h3> Drivers of change in SOM stocks - loss and gains </h3>
 <h2> Soil health </h2>
  <h3> Soil C contribution to soil health and climate change mitigation </h3>






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