The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change

Hicks Pries, Caitlin E.; Ryals, Rebecca; Zhu, Biao; Min, Kyungjin; Cooper, Alexia; Goldsmith, Sarah; Pett-Ridge, Jennifer; Torn, Margaret; Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw

doi:10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-085332

Title: The Deep Soil Organic Carbon Response to Global Change

Journal Article · Tue Aug 22 00:00:00 UTC 2023 · Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-102320-085332 · OSTI ID:2583367

Hicks Pries, Caitlin E. ^[1]; Ryals, Rebecca ^[2]; Zhu, Biao ^[3]; Min, Kyungjin ^[4]; Cooper, Alexia ^[2]; Goldsmith, Sarah ^[1]; Pett-Ridge, Jennifer ^[5]; Torn, Margaret ^[6]; Berhe, Asmeret Asefaw ^[2]

Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States)
University of California, Merced, CA (United States)
Peking University, Beijing (China)
Seoul National University (South Korea)
University of California, Merced, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Over 70% of soil organic carbon (SOC) is stored at a depth greater than 20 cm belowground. A portion of this deep SOC actively cycles on annual to decadal timescales and is sensitive to global change. However, deep SOC responses to global change likely differ from surface SOC responses because biotic controls on SOC cycling become weaker as mineral controls predominate with depth. Here, we synthesize the current information on deep SOC responses to the global change drivers of warming, shifting precipitation, elevated CO₂, and land use and land cover change. Most deep SOC responses can only be hypothesized because few global change studies measure deep soils, and even fewer global change experiments manipulate deep soils. We call on scientists to incorporate deep soils into their manipulations, measurements, and models so that the response of deep SOC can be accounted for in projections of nature-based climate solutions and terrestrial feedbacks to climate change.

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Research Organization:: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Science Foundation (NSF); National Science Foundation Arctic System Science; USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231; AC52-07NA27344; SC0020228

OSTI ID:: 2583367

Report Number(s):: LLNL--JRNL-854334

Journal Information:: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Journal Name: Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 54; ISSN 1543-592X; ISSN 1545-2069

Publisher:: Annual ReviewsCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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