Reply to Chen et al.: Soil organic carbon stocks and persistence of surface 30 cm of Mollisols

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Soil Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
• ² Research Department, Rodale Institute, Kutztown, PA 19530.
• ³ Department of Agronomy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53706.
• ⁴ Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523.
• ⁵ Department of Entomology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506.
• ⁶ School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH 44691.
• ⁷ Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China.