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Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change

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Davidson, Eric A., Janssens, Ivan A.·2006·Nature

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Significantly more carbon is stored in the world's soils--including peatlands, wetlands and permafrost--than is present in the atmosphere. Disagreement exists, however, regarding the effects of climate change on global soil carbon stocks. If carbon stored belowground is transferred to the atmosphere by a warming-induced acceleration of its decomposition, a positive feedback to climate change would occur. Conversely, if increases of plant-derived carbon inputs to soils exceed increases in decomposition, the feedback would be negative. Despite much research, a consensus has not yet emerged on the temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition. Unravelling the feedback effect is particularly difficult, because the diverse soil organic compounds exhibit a wide range of kinetic properties, which determine the intrinsic temperature sensitivity of their decomposition. Moreover, several environmental constraints obscure the intrinsic temperature sensitivity of substrate decomposition, causing lower observed 'apparent' temperature sensitivity, and these constraints may, themselves, be sensitive to climate.

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Authors: Davidson, E. A., & Janssens, I. A.
Affiliations: Woodwell Climate Research Center (US)
University of Antwerp (BE)
Corresponding author: Davidson, Eric A.
ORCID: Davidson, Eric A.
Janssens, Ivan A.
Venue: Nature
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2006-03
Volume: 440
Issue: 7081
Pages: 165-173
ISSN: 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/nature04514
OpenAlex: W2083857556
Cited by: 6,919
References: 108
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FWCI: 27.72
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Nature (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Science Foundation
U.S. Department of Energy
European Commission
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Climate change and permafrost
Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology
Keywords: soil carbon decomposition, temperature sensitivity, climate feedbacks, soil organic carbon, peatlands, permafrost, soil carbon stocks, decomposition kinetics, soil carbon dynamics
MeSH terms: Carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Plants, Soil, Temperature, Greenhouse Effect

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