Modelling soil carbon stocks following reduced tillage intensity: A framework to estimate decomposition rate constant modifiers for RothC-26.3, demonstrated in north-west Europe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We would like to thank Dr Peter Long for assistance extracting input parameters from spatial data products and Dr Paul Bürkner for advice on Bayesian statistics in the brms package. We would also like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments which greatly improved the manuscript. This work was supported by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [grant number BB/M011224/1]. The funder had no role in the collection, analysis and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the article for publication. The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.