{"id":211,"date":"2026-02-21T11:07:59","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/amazon-pyrocarbon\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-06-22T17:47:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T17:47:30","slug":"amazon-soil-carbon-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/amazon-forest-to-field\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Forest to Field: Securing the Future of Tropical Soil Carbon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Investigating post-deforestation soil carbon persistence under changing climate and land-use in the Amazon Basin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Every year, the Amazon frontier loses forest to farmland — but while the trees disappear from satellite images, a hidden transformation unfolds in the soil beneath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Amazon Forest to Field project investigates the mechanistic controls of soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence after deforestation, tracing how fire, clay mineralogy, land-use management, and climate determine whether centuries of stored carbon stays locked underground or returns to the atmosphere as CO₂. By combining continent-scale field sampling across the Arc of Deforestation with process-based modelling, we identify the pathways toward carbon-negative agriculture in the Brazilian Amazon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Regional sites across Amazonia
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Across the Arc of Deforestation, the carbon beneath our feet is being rewritten.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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