“…Vegetation biomass plays a non‐negligible role in determining SOC stocks (L. F. Chen et al, ). Vegetation recovery on the Loess Plateau favours SOC sequestration (Deng, Liu, & Shangguan, ; Deng & Shangguan, ; Deng, Shangguan, Wu, & Chang, ; Liu, Dang, Tian, Wang, & Wu, ). Pearson correlation coefficients and associated significance levels were utilized to identify the relationship between grassland SOC and biomass.…”