skip to main content
OSTI.GOV title logo U.S. Department of Energy
Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Title: Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models: SOIL CARBON MODELING

Journal Article · · Global Biogeochemical Cycles
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/2015GB005239· OSTI ID:1255385
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [4];  [5];  [6];  [7];  [8];  [9];  [10];  [11];  [8];  [12];  [13];  [14];  [14];  [15];  [16];  [17];  [18] more »;  [19];  [15];  [20];  [21];  [22];  [14];  [23];  [24];  [25];  [26];  [27];  [16];  [28];  [29];  [30];  [31];  [32];  [33];  [34];  [35];  [36] « less
  1. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman Oklahoma USA; Center for Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, Beijing China
  2. Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford California USA; Department of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science, Lund University, Lund Sweden
  3. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine California USA; Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine California USA
  4. ISRIC-World Soil Information, Wageningen Netherlands
  5. Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg Germany
  6. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena Germany; CENSE, Departamento de Ciências e Engenharia do Ambiente, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Caparica Portugal
  7. CSIRO Land and Water National Research Flagship, Canberra Australia
  8. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA CNRS UVSQ, Gif-sur-Yvette France
  9. Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg Maryland USA
  10. Department of Biology, Boston University, Boston Massachusetts USA
  11. Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Berkeley California USA; Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California USA
  12. Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Victoria British Columbia Canada
  13. U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park California USA
  14. Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine California USA
  15. Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, University of Oklahoma, Norman Oklahoma USA
  16. Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley California USA
  17. Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford California USA
  18. Met Office Hadley Centre, Exeter UK
  19. Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Alaska USA
  20. U.S. Geological Survey, Alaska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Fairbanks Alaska USA; Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks Alaska USA
  21. Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins Colorado USA
  22. Institute of Environment Sciences, University of Quebec at Montreal, Montreal Quebec Canada
  23. Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette Indiana USA
  24. Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena Germany
  25. Computational Science Laboratory, Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK
  26. International Center for Climate and Global Change Research, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama USA
  27. Biological Sciences Division, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland Washington USA
  28. Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff Arizona USA
  29. CSIRO Ocean and Atmosphere Flagship, Aspendale Victoria Australia
  30. Joint Global Change Research Institute, College Park Maryland USA
  31. Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge Tennessee USA
  32. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder Colorado USA
  33. School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai China
  34. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology, Iowa State University, Ames Iowa USA
  35. Department of Biological Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Texas USA
  36. State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing China
+ Show Author Affiliations

Soil carbon (C) is a critical component of Earth system models (ESMs) and its diverse representations are a major source of the large spread across models in the terrestrial C sink from the 3rd to 5th assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Improving soil C projections is of a high priority for Earth system modeling in the future IPCC and other assessments. To achieve this goal, we suggest that (1) model structures should reflect real-world processes, (2) parameters should be calibrated to match model outputs with observations, and (3) external forcing variables should accurately prescribe the environmental conditions that soils experience. Firstly, most soil C cycle models simulate C input from litter production and C release through decomposition. The latter process has traditionally been represented by 1st-order decay functions, regulated primarily by temperature, moisture, litter quality, and soil texture. While this formulation well captures macroscopic SOC dynamics, better understanding is needed of their underlying mechanisms as related to microbial processes, depth-dependent environmental controls, and other processes that strongly affect soil C dynamics. Secondly, incomplete use of observations in model parameterization is a major cause of bias in soil C projections from ESMs. Optimal parameter calibration with both pool- and flux-based datasets through data assimilation is among the highest priorities for near-term research to reduce biases among ESMs. Thirdly, external variables are represented inconsistently among ESMs, leading to differences in modeled soil C dynamics. We recommend the implementation of traceability analyses to identify how external variables and model parameterizations influence SOC dynamics in different ESMs. Overall, projections of the terrestrial C sink can be substantially improved when reliable datasets are available to select the most representative model structure, constrain parameters, and prescribe forcing fields.

Research Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
1255385
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-114616
Journal Information:
Global Biogeochemical Cycles, Vol. 30, Issue 1; ISSN 0886-6236
Publisher:
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

References (146)

Deep soil carbon dynamics are driven more by soil type than by climate: a worldwide meta-analysis of radiocarbon profiles journal October 2015
A multiscale database of soil properties for regional environmental quality modeling in the western United States journal November 2009
A Theoretical Model of Litter Decay and Microbial Interaction journal May 2006
Integrating microbial physiology and physiochemical principles in soils with the MIcrobial-MIneral Carbon Stabilization (MIMICS) model journal January 2014
Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model journal January 2010
Effects of elevated [CO2] on photosynthesis in European forest species: a meta-analysis of model parameters: Photosynthetic acclimation to elevated CO2 journal December 1999
Quantifying Carbon Cycle Feedbacks journal October 2009
Using 50years of soil radiocarbon data to identify optimal approaches for estimating soil carbon residence times journal January 2013
Incorporating microbial ecology concepts into global soil mineralization models to improve predictions of carbon and nitrogen fluxes journal March 2014
Priming effects: Interactions between living and dead organic matter journal September 2010
Relative information contributions of model vs. data to short- and long-term forecasts of forest carbon dynamics journal July 2011
A big-microsite framework for soil carbon modeling journal September 2014
Separating soil CO2 efflux into C-pool-specific decay rates via inverse analysis of soil incubation data journal January 2013
Observations and assessment of forest carbon dynamics following disturbance in North America: FOREST CARBON AFTER DISTURBANCE journal June 2012
Harmonization of land-use scenarios for the period 1500–2100: 600 years of global gridded annual land-use transitions, wood harvest, and resulting secondary lands journal August 2011
Analysis of Factors Controlling Soil Organic Matter Levels in Great Plains Grasslands1 journal January 1987
A General Model for the Light-Use Efficiency of Primary Production journal October 1996
Modelling soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics using measurable and conceptual soil organic matter pools in APSIM journal March 2014
Ecosystem carbon storage capacity as affected by disturbance regimes: A general theoretical model: THE REGIME MODEL journal July 2012
Global response of terrestrial ecosystem structure and function to CO 2 and climate change: results from six dynamic global vegetation models journal April 2001
Fire dynamics during the 20th century simulated by the Community Land Model journal January 2010
A semi-analytical solution to accelerate spin-up of a coupled carbon and nitrogen land model to steady state journal January 2012
Models of soil organic matter decomposition: the SoilR package, version 1.0 journal January 2012
Global covariation of carbon turnover times with climate in terrestrial ecosystems journal September 2014
Temperature sensitivity of organic matter decomposition in the Arrhenius equation: some theoretical considerations journal March 2011
Rate my data: quantifying the value of ecological data for the development of models of the terrestrial carbon cycle journal January 2013
Sources of variation in simulated ecosystem carbon storage capacity from the 5th Climate Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) journal January 2014
Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon Mineralization along an Elevation Gradient in the Wuyi Mountains, China journal January 2013
The Dual Arrhenius and Michaelis-Menten kinetics model for decomposition of soil organic matter at hourly to seasonal time scales journal October 2011
Microbial models with data-driven parameters predict stronger soil carbon responses to climate change journal March 2015
Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition journal January 2014
Seasonal patterns of microbial extracellular enzyme activities in an arctic tundra soil: Identifying direct and indirect effects of long-term summer warming journal November 2013
Direct soil moisture controls of future global soil carbon changes: An important source of uncertainty: SOIL MOISTURE AND SOIL CARBON journal July 2011
The Vertical Distribution of soil Organic Carbon and its Relation to Climate and Vegetation journal April 2000
Structural analysis of three global land models on carbon cycle simulations using a traceability framework journal January 2014
Differential responses of soil organic carbon fractions to warming: Results from an analysis with data assimilation journal December 2013
Soil Carbon Saturation: Linking Concept and Measurable Carbon Pools journal January 2008
Complementarity of flux- and biometric-based data to constrain parameters in a terrestrial carbon model journal March 2015
Twenty-First-Century Compatible CO 2 Emissions and Airborne Fraction Simulated by CMIP5 Earth System Models under Four Representative Concentration Pathways journal July 2013
On the Temperature Dependence of Soil Respiration journal June 1994
Equilibrium responses of global net primary production and carbon storage to doubled atmospheric carbon dioxide: Sensitivity to changes in vegetation nitrogen concentration journal June 1997
Texture, Climate, and Cultivation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Content in U.S. Grassland Soils journal January 1989
Carbon–Concentration and Carbon–Climate Feedbacks in CMIP5 Earth System Models journal August 2013
Acclimatization of soil respiration to warming in a tall grass prairie journal October 2001
A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems journal August 2006
Causes of variation in soil carbon simulations from CMIP5 Earth system models and comparison with observations journal January 2013
Climate–Carbon Cycle Feedback Analysis: Results from the C 4 MIP Model Intercomparison journal July 2006
Rates of litter decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems: global patterns and controlling factors journal March 2008
Corrigendum to "The influence of vegetation, fire spread and fire behaviour on biomass burning and trace gas emissions: results from a process-based model" published in Biogeosciences, 7, 1991-2011, doi:10.5194/bg-7-1991-2010, 2010 journal January 2010
Development of microbial-enzyme-mediated decomposition model parameters through steady-state and dynamic analyses journal January 2013
Explicitly representing soil microbial processes in Earth system models: Soil microbes in earth system models journal October 2015
Facilitating feedbacks between field measurements and ecosystem models journal May 2013
Traceable components of terrestrial carbon storage capacity in biogeochemical models journal March 2013
Modeling permafrost thaw and ecosystem carbon cycle under annual and seasonal warming at an Arctic tundra site in Alaska: MODELING PERMAFROST C CYCLE journal June 2014
Clay minerals, oxyhydroxide formation, element leaching and humus development in volcanic soils journal January 2008
Probabilistic inversion of a terrestrial ecosystem model: Analysis of uncertainty in parameter estimation and model prediction: PROBABILISTIC INVERSION OF TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEM journal May 2006
Parameter identifiability, constraint, and equifinality in data assimilation with ecosystem models journal April 2009
Sensitivity of decomposition rates of soil organic matter with respect to simultaneous changes in temperature and moisture journal February 2015
Spatial patterns of ecosystem carbon residence time and NPP-driven carbon uptake in the conterminous United States: CARBON RESIDENCE TIME AND CARBON UPTAKE journal September 2008
Effects of biotic disturbances on forest carbon cycling in the United States and Canada journal October 2011
Regional uptake and release of crop carbon in the United States journal January 2011
Representation of land-surface processes in aeolian transport models journal February 2004
Methods for estimating temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter based on incubation data: A comparative evaluation journal January 2015
Soil properties control decomposition of soil organic carbon: Results from data-assimilation analysis journal January 2016
Model structure and parameter identification of soil organic matter models journal November 2015
Soil organic carbon pools in the northern circumpolar permafrost region: SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POOLS journal June 2009
Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions journal June 2015
Carbon quality and the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon decomposition in a tallgrass prairie journal July 2012
Climate-carbon cycle feedbacks under stabilization: uncertainty and observational constraints journal January 2006
The BETHY/JSBACH Carbon Cycle Data Assimilation System: experiences and challenges: BETHY/JSBACH CCDAS journal October 2013
Climate and nitrogen controls on the geography and timescales of terrestrial biogeochemical cycling journal December 1996
Two decades of terrestrial carbon fluxes from a carbon cycle data assimilation system (CCDAS): CARBON FLUXES FROM DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM journal June 2005
Nonsteady state carbon sequestration in forest ecosystems of China estimated by data assimilation: C SINK ESTIMATED BY DATA ASSIMILATION journal October 2013
Controls over carbon storage and turnover in high-latitude soils journal December 2000
Global patterns and controls of soil organic carbon dynamics as simulated by multiple terrestrial biosphere models: Current status and future directions: MODELING GLOBAL SOIL CARBON DYNAMICS journal June 2015
Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections journal October 2012
Soil Carbon Saturation Controls Labile and Stable Carbon Pool Dynamics journal January 2008
Terrestrial biosphere carbon storage under alternative climate projections journal January 2006
Quality: A Bridge between Theory and Experiment in Soil Organic Matter Studies journal September 1996
Peatlands and the carbon cycle: from local processes to global implications – a synthesis journal January 2008
Effect of Anthropogenic Land-Use and Land-Cover Changes on Climate and Land Carbon Storage in CMIP5 Projections for the Twenty-First Century journal September 2013
Thermal adaptation of heterotrophic soil respiration in laboratory microcosms journal May 2010
Vulnerability of high-latitude soil organic carbon in North America to disturbance journal January 2011
Ecological forecasting and data assimilation in a data-rich era journal July 2011
The role of data assimilation in predictive ecology journal May 2014
Persistence of soil organic matter as an ecosystem property journal October 2011
Soil microbiology book January 1952
Joint control of terrestrial gross primary productivity by plant phenology and physiology journal February 2015
Historical (1850–2000) gridded anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions of reactive gases and aerosols: methodology and application journal January 2010
Soil carbon storage controlled by interactions between geochemistry and climate journal August 2015
Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation journal January 2013
Response of organic carbon mineralization and microbial community to leaf litter and nutrient additions in subtropical forest soils journal April 2014
Changes in soil organic carbon storage predicted by Earth system models during the 21st century journal January 2014
Implications of the carbon cycle steady state assumption for biogeochemical modeling performance and inverse parameter retrieval: STEADY STATE EFFECTS ON C FLUX MODELING journal April 2008
Global soil carbon projections are improved by modelling microbial processes journal July 2013
Linear Analysis of soil Decomposition: Insights from the Century Model journal May 1998
Concurrent evolution of organic and mineral components during initial soil development after retreat of the Damma glacier, Switzerland journal June 2011
The moisture response of soil heterotrophic respiration: interaction with soil properties journal January 2012
Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space journal November 2001
A new data set of soil mineralogy for dust-cycle modeling journal January 2014
Evaluation and improvement of a global land model against soil carbon data using a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method: Calibration of a carbon cycle model journal March 2014
Uncertainty in model parameters and regional carbon fluxes: A model-data fusion approach journal June 2014
Belowground Consequences of Vegetation Change and Their Treatment in Models journal April 2000
When is a measured soil organic matter fraction equivalent to a model pool? journal September 2002
Dynamic disequilibrium of the terrestrial carbon cycle under global change journal February 2011
GCM characteristics explain the majority of uncertainty in projected 21st century terrestrial ecosystem carbon balance journal January 2013
Parameter estimation in surface exchange models using nonlinear inversion: how many parameters can we estimate and which measurements are most useful? journal May 2001
How uncertainties in future climate change predictions translate into future terrestrial carbon fluxes journal June 2005
Global climate change and soil carbon stocks; predictions from two contrasting models for the turnover of organic carbon in soil journal January 2005
Does adding microbial mechanisms of decomposition improve soil organic matter models? A comparison of four models using data from a pulsed rewetting experiment journal September 2009
Circumpolar assessment of permafrost C quality and its vulnerability over time using long-term incubation data journal October 2013
The implications of exoenzyme activity on microbial carbon and nitrogen limitation in soil: a theoretical model journal April 2003
Uncertainty analysis of forest carbon sink forecast with varying measurement errors: a data assimilation approach journal June 2011
Modeling fire and the terrestrial carbon balance: MODELING FIRE AND LAND CARBON BALANCE journal July 2011
Microbial control over carbon cycling in soil journal January 2012
Observations and modeling of biomass and soil organic matter dynamics for the grassland biome worldwide journal December 1993
Global climate change and terrestrial net primary production journal May 1993
Experimental warming altered rates of carbon processes, allocation, and carbon storage in a tallgrass prairie journal November 2015
Soil carbon cycling in a temperate forest: radiocarbon-based estimates of residence times, sequestration rates and partitioning of fluxes journal January 2000
The effect of vertically resolved soil biogeochemistry and alternate soil C and N models on C dynamics of CLM4 journal January 2013
Identification of vegetation and soil carbon pools out of equilibrium in a process model via eddy covariance and biometric constraints: ECOSYSTEM C POOLS APART FROM EQUILIBRIUM journal July 2010
Composition of Natural Organic Materials and Their Decomposition in the Soil: iv. the Nature and Rapidity of Decomposition of the Various Organic Complexes in Different Plant Materials, Under Aerobic Conditions journal January 1929
Soil-carbon response to warming dependent on microbial physiology journal April 2010
Geomorphic control of landscape carbon accumulation journal January 2006
Australian net (1950s–1990) soil organic carbon erosion: implications for CO 2 emission and land–atmosphere modelling journal January 2014
A conceptual model of organo-mineral interactions in soils: self-assembly of organic molecular fragments into zonal structures on mineral surfaces journal June 2007
Responses of soil heterotrophic respiration to moisture availability: An exploration of processes and models journal April 2013
Simulating coupled carbon and nitrogen dynamics following mountain pine beetle outbreaks in the western United States journal January 2011
Radiocarbon and Soil Carbon Dynamics journal May 2009
The climate dependence of the terrestrial carbon cycle, including parameter and structural uncertainties journal January 2013
Predictability of the terrestrial carbon cycle journal December 2014
Uncertainties in carbon residence time and NPP-driven carbon uptake in terrestrial ecosystems of the conterminous USA: a Bayesian approach journal January 2012
Dynamics of C, N, P and S in grassland soils: a model journal February 1988
Simple three-pool model accurately describes patterns of long-term litter decomposition in diverse climates journal August 2008
Uncertainty in climate-carbon-cycle projections associated with the sensitivity of soil respiration to temperature journal April 2003
Representation of vegetation dynamics in the modelling of terrestrial ecosystems: comparing two contrasting approaches within European climate space: Vegetation dynamics in ecosystem models journal November 2001
Soil Microbiology journal February 1964
Agricultural productivity in relation to climate and cropland management in West Africa journal February 2020
Composition of Natural Organic Materials and Their Decomposition in the Soil: iii. the Influence of Nature of Plant upon the Rapidity of its Decomposition journal January 1928
Examining soil carbon uncertainty in a global model: response of microbial decomposition to temperature, moisture and nutrient limitation posted_content June 2013
Regional uptake and release of crop carbon in the United States journal January 2011
Mapping Soil Properties of Africa at 250 m Resolution: Random Forests Significantly Improve Current Predictions text January 2015
Robustness and uncertainty in terrestrial ecosystem carbon response to CMIP5 climate change projections text January 2012
Soil microbiology journal May 1953
Oscillatory behavior of two nonlinear microbial models of soil carbon decomposition journal January 2013
Clay minerals, oxyhydroxide formation, element leaching and humus development in volcanic soils text January 2008

Cited By (78)

Carbon cycle confidence and uncertainty: Exploring variation among soil biogeochemical models journal November 2017
Realized ecological forecast through an interactive Ecological Platform for Assimilating Data (EcoPAD, v1.0) into models journal January 2019
The potential of agricultural land management to contribute to lower global surface temperatures journal August 2018
Land surface model parameter optimisation using in situ flux data: comparison of gradient-based versus random search algorithms (a case study using ORCHIDEE v1.9.5.2) journal January 2018
Global soil–climate–biome diagram: linking surface soil properties to climate and biota journal January 2019
Global vegetation biomass production efficiency constrained by models and observations journal September 2019
Representing agriculture in Earth System Models: Approaches and priorities for development: AGRICULTURE IN ESMS journal September 2017
Modelling the physical states, element stoichiometries and residence times of topsoil organic matter journal November 2018
Model parameterization to represent processes at unresolved scales and changing properties of evolving systems journal January 2020
Combining a root exclusion technique with continuous chamber and porous tube measurements for a pin-point separation of ecosystem respiration in croplands journal August 2017
Relative contributions of biotic and abiotic factors to the spatial variation of litter stock in a mature subtropical forest journal March 2019
Recent Changes in Global Photosynthesis and Terrestrial Ecosystem Respiration Constrained From Multiple Observations journal January 2018
More replenishment than priming loss of soil organic carbon with additional carbon input journal August 2018
Inter‐annual simulation of global carbon cycle variations in a terrestrial–aquatic continuum journal November 2019
The paleoclimatic footprint in the soil carbon stock of the Tibetan permafrost region journal September 2019
Microbial models with minimal mineral protection can explain long-term soil organic carbon persistence journal April 2019
Elevation-based upscaling of organic carbon stocks in High-Arctic permafrost terrain: a storage and distribution assessment for Spitsbergen, Svalbard journal January 2017
Multi‐objective calibration of RothC using measured carbon stocks and auxiliary data of a long‐term experiment in Switzerland journal April 2019
Controls of soil organic matter on soil thermal dynamics in the northern high latitudes journal July 2019
The Millennial model: in search of measurable pools and transformations for modeling soil carbon in the new century journal December 2017
The role of driving factors in historical and projected carbon dynamics of upland ecosystems in Alaska journal December 2017
Potential strong contribution of future anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change to the terrestrial carbon cycle journal June 2018
Transient dynamics of terrestrial carbon storage: mathematical foundation and its applications journal January 2017
Soil carbon stocks across tropical forests of Panama regulated by base cation effects on fine roots journal January 2018
Anaerobic microsites have an unaccounted role in soil carbon stabilization journal November 2017
Data-mining analysis of the global distribution of soil carbon in observational databases and Earth system models journal January 2017
Linking Improvement of Soil Structure to Soil Carbon Storage Following Invasion by a C4 Plant Spartina alterniflora journal October 2018
The value of soil respiration measurements for interpreting and modeling terrestrial carbon cycling journal November 2016
Technologically achievable soil organic carbon sequestration in world croplands and grasslands journal November 2018
Biotic responses buffer warming-induced soil organic carbon loss in Arctic tundra journal June 2018
The landscape of soil carbon data: Emerging questions, synergies and databases journal May 2019
Effect of dry-wet cycles on carbon dioxide release from two different volcanic ash soils in a Japanese temperate forest journal August 2019
A fuzzy logic decision support model for climate-driven biomass loss risk in western Oregon and Washington journal October 2019
Mitigation potential of soil carbon management overestimated by neglecting N2O emissions journal February 2018
Predicting soil carbon loss with warming journal February 2018
Different responses of soil organic carbon fractions to additions of nitrogen: Nitrogen effects on soil carbon fractions journal September 2018
Towards a representation of priming on soil carbon decomposition in the global land biosphere model ORCHIDEE (version 1.9.5.2) journal January 2016
Carbohydrates protect protein against abiotic fragmentation by soil minerals journal January 2018
Effects of altered dry season length and plant inputs on soluble soil carbon journal August 2018
The Role of the Ecosystem Engineer, the Leaf‐Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes , on Soil CO 2 Dynamics in a Wet Tropical Rainforest journal February 2019
Including Stable Carbon Isotopes to Evaluate the Dynamics of Soil Carbon in the Land‐Surface Model ORCHIDEE journal November 2019
Atmosphere–soil carbon transfer as a function of soil depth journal July 2018
Dependence of the evolution of carbon dynamics in the northern permafrost region on the trajectory of climate change journal March 2018
Evaluation of simulated soil carbon dynamics in Arctic-Boreal ecosystems journal February 2020
Faster turnover of new soil carbon inputs under increased atmospheric CO 2 journal June 2017
Nitrogen limitation of decomposition and decay: How can it occur? journal December 2017
Impact of priming on global soil carbon stocks journal February 2018
Differential responses of carbon-degrading enzyme activities to warming: Implications for soil respiration journal August 2018
Soil biodiversity and soil erosion: It is time to get married: Adding an earthworm factor to soil erosion modelling journal August 2018
A keystone microbial enzyme for nitrogen control of soil carbon storage journal August 2018
The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry journal August 2019
The current state of CO 2 flux chamber studies in the Arctic tundra: A review journal December 2017
Environmental and Vegetative Controls on Soil CO2 Efflux in Three Semiarid Ecosystems journal January 2019
Temperature and moisture are minor drivers of regional-scale soil organic carbon dynamics text January 2019
Leaf area index identified as a major source of variability in modeled CO2 fertilization journal January 2018
Evaluating the simulated mean soil carbon transit times by Earth system models using observations journal January 2019
WoSIS: providing standardised soil profile data for the world journal January 2017
The hidden ecological resource of andic soils in mountain ecosystems: evidence from Italy journal January 2018
A review of the global soil property maps for Earth system models journal January 2019
Increasing soil carbon storage: mechanisms, effects of agricultural practices and proxies. A review journal April 2017
Assimilation of Remotely Sensed LAI Into CLM4CN Using DART journal August 2019
Generic parameters of first-order kinetics accurately describe soil organic matter decay in bare fallow soils over a wide edaphic and climatic range journal December 2019
Missing pieces to modeling the Arctic-Boreal puzzle journal February 2018
Effects of climate warming on carbon fluxes in grasslands— A global meta‐analysis journal February 2019
ORCHIDEE-MICT (v8.4.1), a land surface model for the high latitudes: model description and validation journal January 2018
An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion journal December 2017
Temperature and moisture are minor drivers of regional-scale soil organic carbon dynamics journal April 2019
Changes in soil organic carbon in croplands subjected to fertilizer management: a global meta-analysis journal June 2016
Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation journal March 2019
Reduced carbon use efficiency and increased microbial turnover with soil warming journal December 2018
Downscaling satellite soil moisture using geomorphometry and machine learning journal September 2019
Modeling transient soil moisture limitations on microbial carbon respiration preprint January 2018
Potential strong contribution of future anthropogenic land-use and land-cover change to the terrestrial carbon cycle text January 2018
Soil organic carbon dynamics jointly controlled by climate, carbon inputs, soil properties and soil carbon fractions journal June 2017
ORCHIDEE-SOM: modeling soil organic carbon (SOC) and dissolved organic carbon (DOC) dynamics along vertical soil profiles in Europe journal January 2018
Plant economic strategies of grassland species control soil carbon dynamics through rhizodeposition journal September 2019
Evaluating CENTURY and Yasso soil carbon models for CO 2 emissions and organic carbon stocks of boreal forest soil with Bayesian multi‐model inference journal April 2019
Interannual variability in Australia’s terrestrial carbon cycle constrained by multiple observation types posted_content May 2016

Similar Records

Toward more realistic projections of soil carbon dynamics by Earth system models
Journal Article · Thu Jan 21 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Global Biogeochemical Cycles · OSTI ID:1255385
+38 more
Microbial dynamics and soil physicochemical properties explain large-scale variations in soil organic carbon
Journal Article · Sat Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2020 · Global Change Biology · OSTI ID:1255385
+11 more
Matrix approach to land carbon cycle modeling: A case study with the Community Land Model
Journal Article · Fri Oct 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Global Change Biology · OSTI ID:1255385
+6 more

Related Subjects

Soil carbon
Earth system Models
data integration