articleNature GeoscienceFeb 20, 2024HYBRID OA

Emergent temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon driven by mineral associations

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · +13 more institutions

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Abstract

Abstract Soil organic matter decomposition and its interactions with climate depend on whether the organic matter is associated with soil minerals. However, data limitations have hindered global-scale analyses of mineral-associated and particulate soil organic carbon pools and their benchmarking in Earth system models used to estimate carbon cycle–climate feedbacks. Here we analyse observationally derived global estimates of soil carbon pools to quantify their relative proportions and compute their climatological temperature sensitivities as the decline in carbon with increasing temperature. We find that the climatological temperature sensitivity of particulate carbon is on average 28% higher than that of…

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