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EDITORIAL

Soil organic matter in a stressed world

Mark Farrell https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4562-2738 A H , Alan E. Richardson https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0708-1299 B , Timothy R. Cavagnaro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9922-5677 C , Brian R. Wilson https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7983-0909 D E , Helen C. Glanville F and Michael Beare https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0027-3757 G
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A CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Kaurna Country, Gate 4 Waite Road, Urrbrae, SA 5064, Australia.

B CSIRO Agriculture & Food, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country, PO Box 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.

C The Waite Research Institute, The School of Agriculture, Food and Wine, The University of Adelaide, Waite Campus, Kaurna Country, PMB1 Glen Osmond, SA 5064, Australia.

D School of Environmental and Rural Sciences, Faculty of Science Agriculture Business and Law, University of New England, Anaiwan Country, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

E NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Anaiwan Country, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.

F School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, Keele University, Keele, UK.

G New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research, Canterbury Agriculture and Science Centre, Lincoln, Canterbury 7608, Aotearoa New Zealand.

H Corresponding author. Email: mark.farrell@csiro.au

Soil Research 59(6) i-iv https://doi.org/10.1071/SRv59n6_ED
Published: 26 August 2021


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