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Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-429-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-18-429-2026
© Author(s) 2026. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 1
Data description article
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15 Jan 2026
Data description article |  | 15 Jan 2026

Remapping carbon storage change in retired farmlands on the Loess Plateau in China from 2000–2021 in high spatiotemporal resolution

Bingqian Guo, Mingjie Fang, Leilei Yang, Tao Guo, Chuang Ma, Xiangyun Hu, Zhaoxiang Guo, Zemeng Ma, Qiang Li, Zhaoli Wang, and Weiguo Liu

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Using satellite images and soil samples, we found that 39 065 km2 of farmland was retired across China’s Loess Plateau from 2000 to 2021, with nearly half converted to grasslands. Over two decades, these restored lands captured 21.77 million metric tons of carbon, Grasslands contributed over 80 % of this carbon storage, highlighting their critical role in climate mitigation.
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