Soils in the Anthropocene: New insights into soil carbon cycling from big data synthesis, research networks, and long-term studies
Soils in the Anthropocene: New insights into soil carbon cycling from big data synthesis, research networks, and long-term studies
Session ID#: 120886
Session Description:
Soil organic matter (SOM) is a critical ecosystem variable regulated by complex physical, chemical and biological interactions across scales. Better constraints on SOM pools and fluxes are required to advance understanding of how global change will influence the carbon (C) cycle. It is now possible to leverage ‘big data’ soils resources to achieve larger-scale inference and uncover emergent properties of SOM across broader spatio-temporal scales. This includes long-term soil experiments, multi-site coordinated data collection efforts, database creation and harmonization, and more.
This session will highlight novel insights into soil C dynamics using such ‘big data’ approaches. Applications including improvements to soil modeling, advances in land management decision support, and other outcomes are encouraged. Studies using cutting edge interdisciplinary approaches, from SOM molecular characterization to microbial -omics, innovative soil sensors, remote sensing observations and more are welcome, as are papers that advance our theoretical understanding of soil C at macrosystems scales.
Co-Sponsor(s):
- ESA: Ecological Society of America -
- EGU: European Geosciences Union -
- SSSA: Soil Science Society of America -
Index Terms:
0414 Biogeochemical cycles, processes, and modeling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0428 Carbon cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0470 Nutrients and nutrient cycling [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0486 Soils/pedology [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
Primary Convener: Samantha R Weintraub, National Ecological Observatory Network, Battelle, Boulder, CO, United States
Conveners: Olga Vindušková, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and William R Wieder, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
Primary Liaison: Avni Malhotra, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
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