Climate Warming Can Accelerate Carbon Fluxes without Changing Soil Carbon Stocks

Climate Warming Can Accelerate Carbon Fluxes without Changing Soil Carbon Stocks

1 Department of Earth Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, 2 Department of Biological Sciences and Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA, 3 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA, 4 Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Serv...

Climate legacies drive global soil carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems

Climatic conditions shift gradually over millennia, altering the rates at which carbon (C) is fixed from the atmosphere and stored in the soil. However, legacy impacts of past climates on current soil C stocks are poorly understood. We used data from more than 5000 terrestrial sites from three global and regional data sets to identify the relative importance of current and past (Last Glacial Ma...

Soil warming and carbon-cycle feedbacks to the climate system.

In a decade-long soil warming experiment in a mid-latitude hardwood forest, we documented changes in soil carbon and nitrogen cycling in order to investigate the consequences of these changes for the climate system. Here we show that whereas soil warming accelerates soil organic matter decay and carbon dioxide fluxes to the atmosphere, this response is small and short-lived for a mid-latitude f...

Soil carbon fluxes and stocks in a Great Lakes forest chronosequence Running title: Soil carbon in a chronosequence

Estimating soil carbon stocks of Africa

Soil carbon stocks in ecoregions of Africa M. Henry, R. Valentini, and M. Bernoux Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, IRD, UR SeqBio, SupAgro, Bat. 12, 2 place Viala, 34060 Montpellier Cedex 1, France Laboratorio di Ecologia Forestale, Di.S.A.F.Ri. – Facoltà di Agraria, Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Via Camillo de Lellis, snc – 01100, Viterbo, Italy AgroParisTech – ENGREF, GEEFT...