Tropical forests play a significant role in climate change by sequestering atmospheric
carbon dioxide. However, deforestation and forest degradation adversely affect these …

Formation of forest islands in West Africa has been linked to anthropogenic soil
improvement resulting in luxuriant tree growth in otherwise open savanna landscapes …

Global sustainable development goals include reducing greenhouse gas emissions from
land-use change and maintaining biodiversity. Many studies have examined carbon stocks …

Savannas constitute a mixture of trees and shrub patches with a more continuous
herbaceous understory. The contribution of this biome to the soil organic carbon (SOC) and …

Highlights• New allometric equations were developed for predicting aboveground and
belowground biomass (AGB and BGB) of trees and multi-stemmed shrubs in the Guinean …

When I began studying soil ecology in the first year of my postdoc, I realized that it would be
a tough task considering soil biology at the tropical ecosystem. There are plenty of …

Land use change has led to drastic soil degradation and greenhouse gas emissions with
implications for sustainable agriculture and climate change. Here, we report soil carbon …

The maintenance of soil productivity is important for sustained crop yield in low-input
systems in the tropics. This study investigated the impact of four different land use types …

Many West African economies have been experiencing fast growth over recent decades. At
the same time, their landscapes are also experiencing one of the fastest changes in the …

3 Soil carbon persistence 4 Temperature sensitivity 5 Soil inorganic carbon 6 Blue carbon in
coastal ecosystems 7 Black or pyrogenic carbon 8 Frozen carbon and permafrost soils 9 …