Articles | Volume 15, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3659-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3659-2018
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18 Jun 2018
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Field-warmed soil carbon changes imply high 21st-century modeling uncertainty

Katherine Todd-Brown, Bin Zheng, and Thomas W. Crowther

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Short summary
The temperature sensitivity of soil carbon loss is a critical parameter for projecting future CO2. Isolating soil temperature response in the field is challenging due to difficulties isolating root and microbial respiration. We use a database of direct-warming soil carbon changes to generate a new global temperature sensitivity. Incorporating this into Earth system models reduces projected soil carbon. But it also shows that variation due to this parameter is as high as all other causes.
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