Soil organic carbon dynamics: Influences of land-use change in natural and plantation forests of the Western Ghats, India

• Panchami Jaya ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jayap@purdue.edu

  Affiliations Soil science Department, KSCSTE - Kerala Forest Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India, Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA,, Forest Research Institute (FRI), Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7539-8985

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• Yichao Rui,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA,

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• M. Navya,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Soil science Department, KSCSTE - Kerala Forest Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Cochin, India

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• S. Sandeep

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Soil science Department, KSCSTE - Kerala Forest Research Institute, Thrissur, Kerala, India

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