Marking World Environment Day, China on 5 June unveiled the country’s top 10 scientific and technological achievements in ecology and environment for 2024. The advance “New global soil microbial carbon estimation formula and its impact on carbon cycling” developed by our institute’s researchers is one of them.

Prof. Liang Yuting and her research team refined MDC estimation formulas to improve precision while maintaining simplicity and practicality. Given the crucial role of the MDC pool in mitigating climate change, enhancing soil productivity, and sustaining ecosystem health, this advance has direct implications for modeling efforts and predicting the land-atmosphere carbon balance under current and future climate scenarios. 

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