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Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change
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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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“Temperature and precipitation regimes are determining factors for the SOC balance, as they are strongly involved in processes responsible for both SOC inputs (i.e., litterfall production) and outputs (i.e., SOC decomposition, Davidson & Janssens, 2006).”
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“However, lignin decomposition rates are highly variable depending on soils and land use and are not necessarily linked to the stability of the derived soil C pool [146, 149].”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Davidson, E. A., & Janssens, I. A.
- Affiliations
- Woodwell Climate Research Center (US)
- University of Antwerp (BE)
- Corresponding author
- Davidson, Eric A.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 440
- Issue
- 7081
- Pages
- 165-173
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W2083857556
- Cited by
- 6,919
- References
- 108
- Citations by year
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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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