Articles | Volume 12, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1037-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-1037-2020
Data description paper
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07 May 2020
Data description paper |  | 07 May 2020

Spatial and temporal patterns of global soil heterotrophic respiration in terrestrial ecosystems

Xiaolu Tang, Shaohui Fan, Manyi Du, Wenjie Zhang, Sicong Gao, Shibin Liu, Guo Chen, Zhen Yu, and Wunian Yang

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A globally gridded heterotrophic respiration dataset based on field observations X. Tang,S. Fan M. Du, W. Zhang,S. Gao,S. Liu,G. Chen,Z. Yu, and W. Yang https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.8882567.v7

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Global soil heterotrophic respiration (RH) was modelled using Random Forest by linking published observations and globally gridded environmental variables. Globally, RH increased from 55.8 to 58.3 Pg C a−1 with an increasing trend of 0.036 ± 0.007 Pg C a−2 and an annual mean RH of 57.2 ± 0.6 Pg C a−1 over 1980–2016. The developed RH dataset has great potential to serve as a benchmark to constrain global vegetation models.
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