Articles | Volume 17, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1293-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-1293-2020
Research article
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13 Mar 2020
Research article |  | 13 Mar 2020

Leveraging the signature of heterotrophic respiration on atmospheric CO2 for model benchmarking

Samantha J. Basile, Xin Lin, William R. Wieder, Melannie D. Hartman, and Gretchen Keppel-Aleks

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Soil heterotrophic respiration (HR) is an important component of land–atmosphere carbon exchange but is difficult to observe globally. We analyzed the imprint that this flux leaves on atmospheric CO2 using a set of simulations from HR models with common inputs. Models that represent microbial processes are more variable and have stronger temperature sensitivity than those that do not. Our results show that we can use atmospheric CO2 observations to evaluate and improve models of HR.
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