“I’m a soil scientist and there’s decades of science on how agricultural practices do, or don’t build up soil carbon. And yet, we still lack the fundamental ability to say, if you do this action, in this place, we can predict soil carbon changes with X percent accuracy.” Stephen Wood, Senior Scientist The Nature Conservancy – well said @wooddecomp@ In their recent paper in Conservation Science and practice Stephen and his coauthors, lay out guidelines for successfully gearing research to decision makers, something we struggle with in our research group all the time these days. A discussion with them by ‘About Cool Green Science’ summarizes their views, provides additional links, and shares this guidance:
Crow Soil Ecology & Biogeochemistry Lab 