Spatial and temporal patterns of global soil heterotrophic respiration in terrestrial ecosystems
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Published:2020-05-07
Issue:2
Volume:12
Page:1037-1051
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ISSN:1866-3516
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Container-title:Earth System Science Data
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language:en
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Short-container-title:Earth Syst. Sci. Data
Author:
Tang XiaoluORCID, Fan Shaohui, Du Manyi, Zhang Wenjie, Gao SicongORCID, Liu Shibin, Chen Guo, Yu ZhenORCID, Yang Wunian
Abstract
Abstract. Soil heterotrophic respiration (RH) is one of the largest
and most uncertain components of the terrestrial carbon cycle, directly
reflecting carbon loss from soils to the atmosphere. However, high
variations and uncertainties of RH existing in global carbon cycling models
require RH estimates from different angles, e.g., a data-driven angle. To
fill this knowledge gap, this study applied a Random Forest (RF) algorithm
(a machine learning approach) to (1) develop a globally gridded RH dataset
and (2) investigate its spatial and temporal patterns from 1980 to 2016 at
the global scale by linking field observations from the Global Soil
Respiration Database and global environmental drivers (temperature,
precipitation, soil water content, etc.). Finally, a globally gridded RH
dataset was developed covering from 1980 to 2016 with a spatial resolution
of half a degree and a temporal resolution of 1 year. Globally, the average
annual RH was 57.2±0.6 Pg C a−1 from 1980 to 2016, with a
significantly increasing trend of 0.036±0.007 Pg C a−2. However,
the temporal trend of the carbon loss from RH varied in climate zones, and
RH showed a significant and increasing trend in boreal and temperate areas.
In contrast, such a trend was absent in tropical regions. Temperature-driven
RH dominated 39 % of global land and was primarily distributed at high-latitude areas. The areas dominated by precipitation and soil water
content were mainly semiarid and tropical areas, accounting for 36 % and
25 % of global land area, respectively, suggesting variations in the
dominance of environmental controls on the spatial patterns of RH. The
developed globally gridded RH dataset will further aid in the understanding of
the mechanisms of global soil carbon dynamics, serving as a benchmark to
constrain terrestrial biogeochemical models. The dataset is publicly
available at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8882567
(Tang et al., 2019a).
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China Chengdu University of Technology
Publisher
Copernicus GmbH
Subject
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
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