1 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Joint Global Change Research Institute at the University of Maryland-College Park, College Park, MD, USA.
2 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
3 Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.
4 Climate Change Science Institute and Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA.
5 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
6 School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
7 Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
8 Instituto de Ecología y Biodiversidad, Santiago, Chile.
9 Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
10 Research Institute for Sustainable Humanosphere, Kyoto University, Uji City, Kyoto, Japan.
11 Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA.
12 Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
13 Department of Environmental Systems Science, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
14 Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ, USA.
15 Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Ecology and Sustainability, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan.
16 Department of Geological Sciences and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
17 Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
18 Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, MD, USA.
19 Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA.
20 Sustainable Resources Management, SUNY-ESF, Syracuse, NY, USA.
21 Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany.
22 Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA.
23 Plants and Ecosystems, Department of Biology, University of Antwerp, Wilrijk, Belgium.
24 Department of Biology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA.
25 University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA, USA.
26 Sustainability Double Degree Program, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA.
27 Institute of Ecology, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, Beijing, China.
28 Research Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
29 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA.
30 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA.
31 School of Forest Resources, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA.
32 Department of Forest Ecology and Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden.
33 Beijing Research & Development Centre for Grass and Environment, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing, China.
34 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
35 Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsu

COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data.

Glob Chang Biol. 2020 Oct 07; :

Authors: Bond-Lamberty B, Christianson DS, Malhotra A, Pennington SC, Sihi D, AghaKouchak A, Anjileli H, Altaf Arain M, Armesto JJ, Ashraf S, Ataka M, Baldocchi D, Andrew Black T, Buchmann N, Carbone MS, Chang SC, Crill P, Curtis PS, Davidson EA, Desai AR, Drake JE, El-Madany TS, Gavazzi M, Görres CM, Gough CM, Goulden M, Gregg J, Gutiérrez Del Arroyo O, He JS, Hirano T, Hopple A, Hughes H, Järveoja J, Jassal R, Jian J, Kan H, Kaye J, Kominami Y, Liang N, Lipson D, Macdonald CA, Maseyk K, Mathes K, Mauritz M, Mayes MA, McNulty S, Miao G, Migliavacca M, Miller S, Miniat CF, Nietz JG, Nilsson MB, Noormets A, Norouzi H, O'Connell CS, Osborne B, Oyonarte C, Pang Z, Peichl M, Pendall E, Perez-Quezada JF, Phillips CL, Phillips RP, Raich JW, Renchon AA, Ruehr NK, Sánchez-Cañete EP, Saunders M, Savage KE, Schrumpf M, Scott RL, Seibt U, Silver WL, Sun W, Szutu D, Takagi K, Takagi M, Teramoto M, Tjoelker MG, Trumbore S, Ueyama M, Vargas R, Varner RK, Verfaillie J, Vogel C, Wang J, Winston G, Wood TE, Wu J, Wutzler T, Zeng J, Zha T, Zhang Q, Zou J

Abstract

Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. In particular, the soil-to-atmosphere CO2 flux, commonly though imprecisely termed soil respiration (RS ), is one of the largest carbon fluxes in the Earth system. An increasing number of high-frequency RS measurements (typically, from an automated system with hourly sampling) have been made over the last two decades; an increasing number of methane measurements are being made with such systems as well. Such high frequency data are an invaluable resource for understanding GHG fluxes, but lack a central database or repository. Here we describe the lightweight, open-source COSORE (COntinuous SOil REspiration) database and software, that focuses on automated, continuous and long-term GHG flux datasets, and is intended to serve as a community resource for earth sciences, climate change syntheses and model evaluation. Contributed datasets are mapped to a single, consistent standard, with metadata on contributors, geographic location, measurement conditions and ancillary data. The design emphasizes the importance of reproducibility, scientific transparency and open access to data. While being oriented towards continuously measured RS , the database design accommodates other soil-atmosphere measurements (e.g. ecosystem respiration, chamber-measured net ecosystem exchange, methane fluxes) as well as experimental treatments (heterotrophic only, etc.). We give brief examples of the types of analyses possible using this new community resource and describe its accompanying R software package.

PMID: 33026137 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]