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Reviews and syntheses
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28 Jul 2022
Reviews and syntheses |
| 28 Jul 2022
| 28 Jul 2022
Reviews and syntheses: The promise of big diverse soil data, moving current practices towards future potential
Katherine E. O. Todd-Brown
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Environmental Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Rose Z. Abramoff
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environnement, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
Jeffrey Beem-Miller
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Hava K. Blair
Department of Soil, Water, and Climate, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA
Stevan Earl
Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
Kristen J. Frederick
Department of Environmental Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Daniel R. Fuka
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA
Mario Guevara Santamaria
Centro de Geociencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Juriquilla, Querétaro, Mexico
Jennifer W. Harden
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Katherine Heckman
Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Houghton, MI, USA
Lillian J. Heran
Department of Environmental Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
James R. Holmquist
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, USA
Alison M. Hoyt
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
David H. Klinges
School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
David S. LeBauer
Arizona Experiment Station, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
Avni Malhotra
Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Department of Geography, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Shelby C. McClelland
Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Lucas E. Nave
Biological Station and Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Pellston, MI, USA
Katherine S. Rocci
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Graduate Degree Program in Ecology, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Sean M. Schaeffer
Biosystems Engineering and Soil Science Department, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
Shane Stoner
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Natasja van Gestel
Department of Biological Sciences & TTU Climate Center, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, USA
Sophie F. von Fromm
Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Department of Environmental Systems Science, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Marisa L. Younger
Department of Environmental Engineering Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
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Methane is an important greenhouse gas, yet we lack knowledge about its global emissions and drivers. We present FLUXNET-CH4, a new global collection of methane measurements and a critical resource for the research community. We use FLUXNET-CH4 data to quantify the seasonality of methane emissions from freshwater wetlands, finding that methane seasonality varies strongly with latitude. Our new database and analysis will improve wetland model accuracy and inform greenhouse gas budgets.
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Sophie F. von Fromm, Alison M. Hoyt, Markus Lange, Gifty E. Acquah, Ermias Aynekulu, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Stephan M. Haefele, Steve P. McGrath, Keith D. Shepherd, Andrew M. Sila, Johan Six, Erick K. Towett, Susan E. Trumbore, Tor-G. Vågen, Elvis Weullow, Leigh A. Winowiecki, and Sebastian Doetterl
SOIL, 7, 305–332, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-305-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-7-305-2021, 2021
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We investigated various soil and climate properties that influence soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations in sub-Saharan Africa. Our findings indicate that climate and geochemistry are equally important for explaining SOC variations. The key SOC-controlling factors are broadly similar to those for temperate regions, despite differences in soil development history between the two regions.
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William R. Wieder, Derek Pierson, Stevan Earl, Kate Lajtha, Sara G. Baer, Ford Ballantyne, Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Sharon A. Billings, Laurel M. Brigham, Stephany S. Chacon, Jennifer Fraterrigo, Serita D. Frey, Katerina Georgiou, Marie-Anne de Graaff, A. Stuart Grandy, Melannie D. Hartman, Sarah E. Hobbie, Chris Johnson, Jason Kaye, Emily Kyker-Snowman, Marcy E. Litvak, Michelle C. Mack, Avni Malhotra, Jessica A. M. Moore, Knute Nadelhoffer, Craig Rasmussen, Whendee L. Silver, Benjamin N. Sulman, Xanthe Walker, and Samantha Weintraub
Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 13, 1843–1854, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1843-2021, 2021
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Data collected from research networks present opportunities to test theories and develop models about factors responsible for the long-term persistence and vulnerability of soil organic matter (SOM). Here we present the SOils DAta Harmonization database (SoDaH), a flexible database designed to harmonize diverse SOM datasets from multiple research networks.
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Research data are becoming increasingly available online with tantalizing possibilities for reanalysis. However harmonizing data from different sources remains challenging. Using the soils community as an example, we walked through the various strategies that researchers currently use to integrate datasets for reanalysis. We find that manual data transcription is still extremely common and that there is a critical need for community-supported informatics tools like vocabularies and ontologies.
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