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Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

Global change biology, 2011-11, Vol.17 (11), p.3392-3404 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 1354-1013 ;ISSN: 1365-2486 ;EISSN: 1365-2486 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02496.x

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Title:
Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward
Author: Conant, Richard T. ; Ryan, Michael G. ; Ågren, Göran I. ; Birge, Hannah E. ; Davidson, Eric A. ; Eliasson, Peter E. ; Evans, Sarah E. ; Frey, Serita D. ; Giardina, Christian P. ; Hopkins, Francesca M. ; Hyvönen, Riitta ; Kirschbaum, Miko U. F. ; Lavallee, Jocelyn M. ; Leifeld, Jens ; Parton, William J. ; Megan Steinweg, Jessica ; Wallenstein, Matthew D. ; Martin Wetterstedt, J. Å. ; Bradford, Mark A.
Subjects: Animal and plant ecology ; Animal, plant and microbial ecology ; Biological and medical sciences ; Climate change ; decomposition ; Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use ; experiments ; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology ; Förnyelsebar bioenergi ; General aspects ; Geochemistry ; Global warming ; Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap ; new conceptual model ; Renewable Bioenergy Research ; review ; soil carbon ; Soils ; Temperature ; temperature sensitivity ; Terrestrial ecosystems
Is Part Of: Global change biology, 2011-11, Vol.17 (11), p.3392-3404
Description: The response of soil organic matter (OM) decomposition to increasing temperature is a critical aspect of ecosystem responses to global change. The impacts of climate warming on decomposition dynamics have not been resolved due to apparently contradictory results from field and lab experiments, most of which has focused on labile carbon with short turnover times. But the majority of total soil carbon stocks are comprised of organic carbon with turnover times of decades to centuries. Understanding the response of these carbon pools to climate change is essential for forecasting longer‐term changes in soil carbon storage. Herein, we briefly synthesize information from recent studies that have been conducted using a wide variety of approaches. In our effort to understand research to‐date, we derive a new conceptual model that explicitly identifies the processes controlling soil OM availability for decomposition and allows a more explicit description of the factors regulating OM decomposition under different circumstances. It explicitly defines resistance of soil OM to decomposition as being due either to its chemical conformation (quality) or its physico‐chemical protection from decomposition. The former is embodied in the depolymerization process, the latter by adsorption/desorption and aggregate turnover. We hypothesize a strong role for variation in temperature sensitivity as a function of reaction rates for both. We conclude that important advances in understanding the temperature response of the processes that control substrate availability, depolymerization, microbial efficiency, and enzyme production will be needed to predict the fate of soil carbon stocks in a warmer world.
Publisher: Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Language: English
Identifier: ISSN: 1354-1013
ISSN: 1365-2486
EISSN: 1365-2486
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02496.x
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Temperature and soil organic matter decomposition rates - synthesis of current knowledge and a way forward

2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd ;2015 INIST-CNRS ;ISSN: 1354-1013 ;ISSN: 1365-2486 ;EISSN: 1365-2486 ;DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2486.2011.02496.x

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