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Borders study revolutionises soil research
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TEN years work on a nondescript hectare of Borders hill has helped
to revolutionise soil research across the world and could help
predict climate change more accurately.
Dr Nick Ostle, of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Lancaster,
said yesterday that work at Sourhope hill farm in the Cheviots had
given scientists a much better understanding of what happens to
carbon. He told a meeting at the Royal Society of Edinburgh: "We now
understand much more about the way carbon compounds move through the
soil.
"We have learned that carbon taken in by plants as carbon dioxide
is rapidly ...
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