Evidence that decomposition rates of organic carbon in mineral soil do not vary with temperature

By C. Giardina, Michael G. Ryan. Nature, 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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Rates of litter decomposition over 6 years in Canadian forests: influence of litter quality and climate (2002, background): “In an analysis of literature, Giardina and Ryan (2000) concluded that decomposition rates of well-decayed soil organic matter are not strongly controlled by temperature and that increased temperature alone would not stimulate decomposition of forest-derived C in mineral soil.”
Oceanic islands as model systems for ecological studies (2002, methodology): “A more recent study made use of data from many more C3/C4 vegetation transitions to evaluate how temperature controls SOM turnover (Giardina & Ryan, 2000), and it suggested that temperature does not affect the turnover of ‘slow’ pools of SOM.”
Global terrestrial carbon storage and uncertainties in its temperature sensitivity examined with a simple model (2003, background): “Some measurements have been used to infer a surprisingly low temperature sensitivity of long-lived mineral soil organic matter (Liski et al., 1999; Giardina & Ryan, 2000).”
Consistent temperature dependence of respiration across ecosystems contrasting in thermal history (2012, background): “…of the Arrhenius function (Giardina & Ryan, 2000; Enquist et al., 2003) – for plants (Atkin & Tjoelker, 2003; Zhou et al., 2007; Stæhr & Wernberg, 2009), soils (Giardina & Ryan, 2000; Luo et al., 2001), insects (Addo-Bediako et al., 2002) and whole forest ecosystems (Enquist et al., 2003, 2007).”
Latitudinal patterns of magnitude and interannual variability in net ecosystem exchange regulated by biological and environmental variables (2009, background): “…a global scale analysis showed that the turnover of soil organic carbon in forest is remarkably constant across the gradient in mean annual temperature, and that increased temperature alone will not stimulate the decomposition of forest-derived carbon in mineral soil (Giardina & Ryan, 2000).”
Soil respiration responses to temperature are controlled more by roots than by decomposition in balsam fir ecosystems (2003, background): “2001a), and decomposition of older forms of soil carbon is controlled more by factors other than temperature (Liski et al. 1999; Giardina and Ryan 2000).”
Basal rates of soil respiration are correlated with photosynthesis in a mixed temperate forest (2007, background): “…SR to changes in temperature is important in global change research and, subsequently, the center-piece of many studies (Bosatta & Ågren, 1999; Liski et al., 1999; Ågren, 2000; Davidson et al., 2000; Giardina & Ryan, 2000; Fang et al., 2005a, b; Knorr et al., 2005a, b; Reichstein et al., 2005).”
Temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter decomposition—what do we know? (2009, methodology): “A reanalysis of the dataset of Giardina and Ryan (2000) by Knorr et al. (2005b) using a three-pool model presented the alternative explanation that the decomposition of stable SOM has higher temperature sensitivity than that of labile SOM.”
The trade-off between growth rate and yield in microbial communities and the consequences for under-snow soil respiration in a high elevation coniferous forest (2009, background): “A comparative study of decomposition rates across a wide range of ecosystem types found little influence of mean annual temperature (Giardina and Ryan 2000), and microbial activity has been observed to acclimate quickly to experimental warming (Luo et al. 2001).”
Below‐ground carbon flux and partitioning: global patterns and response to temperature (2008, background): “Yet confidence in resulting scenarios is constrained by the high uncertainty of underlying climate‐ process relationships ( Giardina & Ryan 2000; Grace & Rayment 2000; Holland et al . 2000) and an incomplete understanding of C allocation in forests (Friedlingstein et al . 1999; Landsberg 2003; Litt”
Similar response of labile and resistant soil organic matter pools to changes in temperature (2005, background): “One current opinion is that the decomposition of soil labile carbon is sensitive to temperature variation whereas resistant components are insensitiv”
On the variability of respiration in terrestrial ecosystems: moving beyond Q10 (2006, background): “In particular, we need to address questions regarding the temperature sensitivity of soil carbon pools with decadal turnover times (Giardina & Ryan, 2000; Davidson et al., 2000a; Fang et al., 2005; Knorr et al., 2005), the effects of permafrost melting and altered hydrologic budgets on organic…”
Soils and climate change: potential impacts on carbon stocks and greenhouse gas emissions, and future research for Australian agriculture (2012, positive): “However, by quantifying the turnover time of SOC at locations exhibiting a 5 308C range in annual temperature, Giardina and Ryan (2000) suggested that rates of SOC decomposition were not sensitive to temperature.”