Soil dissolved organic carbon in terrestrial ecosystems: Global budget, spatial distribution and controls

作者：Ziyu Guo, Yihui Wang, Zhongmei Wan, Yunjiang Zuo, Liyuan He, Dan Li, Fenghui Yuan, Nannan Wang, Jianzhao Liu, Yanyu Song, Changchun Song, Xiaofeng Xu · 发表于：Global Ecology and Biogeography · 年份：2020 · DOI：10.1111/geb.13186 · 被引用次数：142 · 研究领域：Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics、Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology、Marine and coastal ecosystems

Abstract Aims Soil dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is a primary form of labile carbon in terrestrial ecosystems, and therefore plays a vital role in soil carbon cycling. This study aims to quantify the budgets of soil DOC at biome and global levels and to examine the variations in soil DOC and their environmental controls. Location Global. Time period 1981–2019. Methods We compiled a global dataset and analysed the concentration and distribution of DOC across 10 biomes. Results Large variations in DOC are found among biomes across space and the soil DOC concentration declines exponentially along soil depths. Tundra has the highest soil DOC concentration in 0–30 cm soils [453.75 (95% confidence interval: 324.95–633.5) mg/kg], whereas tropical and temperate forests have relatively lower DOC concentrations, ranging from 30.20 (24.78–36.80) to 54.54 (49.77–59.77) mg/kg. DOC generally accounts for < 1% of total organic carbon in soils, and DOC in 0–30 cm contributes more than half of the total DOC in the 0–100 cm soil profile. Furthermore, variations in DOC are primarily controlled by soil texture, moisture, and total organic carbon. Main conclusions A global synthesis is combined with an empirical model to extrapolate the DOC concentration along soil profiles across the globe, and global budgets of DOC are estimated as 7.20 Pg C in the top 0–30 cm and 12.97 Pg C in the 0–100 cm soil profile, respectively, with a considerable variation among biomes. The strong soil texture contr...