Quantifying global soil carbon losses in response to warming

By Thomas W. Crowther, K. Todd-Brown, C. Rowe, W. Wieder, J. Carey, M. Machmuller, L. B. Snoek, S. Fang, Guangsheng Zhou, S. Allison and 40 more. Nature, 2016

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Subfields: Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Soil Science

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Long-term pattern and magnitude of soil carbon feedback to the climate system in a warming world (2017, background): “of these pools could result in a large self-reinforcing feedback to the climate system over 147 multiple decades (26).”
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (2019, background): “[372] Thomas W Crowther, Katherine EO Todd-Brown, Clara W Rowe, William R Wieder, Joanna C Carey, Megan B Machmuller, BL Snoek, Shibo Fang, Guangsheng Zhou, Steven D Allison, et al.”
The global soil community and its influence on biogeochemistry (2019, background): “Changes in the rate of this organic matter processing are a prominent control on the rate of climate change (3, 4).”
The Ecology of Soil Carbon: Pools, Vulnerabilities, and Biotic and Abiotic Controls (2017, background): “Crowther et al. (2016) calculate that a business-as-usual climate scenario could drive the loss of 55 ± 50 Pg C from upper soil horizons by 2050, which is ∼12–17% of expected anthropogenic emissions.”
Modelling the impact of urban growth on agriculture and natural land in Italy to 2030 (2018, background): “notes that microorganisms living in soils adapt to temperature rise by increasing their rate of transpiration, thus releasing more CO2, which ironically feeds even more global warming (Crowther et al., 2016).”
Conceptualizing soil organic matter into particulate and mineral‐associated forms to address global change in the 21st century (2019, background): “…broad‐scale controls of SOM storage (Chenu et al., 2019; Rasmussen et al., 2018; Wiesmeier et al., 2019), SOM responses to global change (Averill, Dietze, & Bhatnagar, 2018; Crowther et al., 2016), and effects of SOM on productivity (Oldfield, Bradford, & Wood, 2019) to treat it as a single entity.”
Technologies and perspectives for achieving carbon neutrality (2021, background): “A great deal of soil C has been lost from natural ecosystems due to the influence of climate change and human disturbance.(156,157) A favorable climate (especially high precipitation) was directly associated with high biomass production and species diversity, which could promote soil organic carbon ”
Remote Sensing Techniques for Soil Organic Carbon Estimation: A Review (2019, background): “Therefore, carbon sequestration could potentially mitigate climate change [3]; as highlighted by the “4 per 1000 initiative” at the 21st conference of the parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP21), an increase of 0.”
Scientists’ warning to humanity: microorganisms and climate change (2019, neutral): “Evaluations of the top 10 cm of soil 143 and whole-soil profiles to 100 cm deep, which contain older stocks of carbon 144 , demonstrate that warming increases carbon loss to the atmosphere.”
What Agriculture Can Learn from Native Ecosystems in Building Soil Organic Matter: A Review (2017, background): “A recent comprehensive study drawing on field experiments in North America, Europe and Asia suggests that climate warming could drive the loss of 55 Pg of carbon from upper soil horizons by 2050, predominantly in arctic and subarctic regions [25].”
Soil carbon debt of 12,000 years of human land use (2017, background): “Of these soil threats, loss of SOM has received the most attention, due to the critical role SOM plays in the contemporary carbon cycle (8, 9) and as a key component of sustaining food production (10, 11).”
Pathways of mineral‐associated soil organic matter formation: Integrating the role of plant carbon source, chemistry, and point of entry (2018, background): “…understanding how plant C inputs form this slow‐cycling SOM, and how it will respond to environmental changes, including soil warming, the spread of invasive species, and land use changes (Crowther et al., 2016; Sanderman, Hengl, & Fiske, 2017; Tamura, Suseela, Simpson, Powell, & Tharayil, 2015).”