Assessing soil carbon dynamics in landscapes of complex topography

Mountain regions are hotspots of land cover and climatic changes where the interaction of climate, parent material, topography, and biota defines key ecosystem services tied to the cycling and storage of carbon in soil. Yet, our ability to quantify and predict soil carbon stocks and lateral fluxes across such highly heterogeneous landscapes is still limited. By integrating field monitoring, soil biogeochemical analysis, and numerical modeling of coupled ecohydrological and geomorphological processes, this project will evaluate the dynamics of lateral soil carbon redistribution at the catchment scale across environmentally complex and geochemically distinct landscapes.