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- Title
Generalized models to estimate carbon and nitrogen stocks of organic soil horizons in Interior Alaska.
- Authors
Manies, Kristen; Waldrop, Mark; Harden, Jennifer
- Abstract
Boreal ecosystems comprise one-tenth of the world's land surface and contain over 20 % of the global soil carbon (C) stocks. Boreal soil is unique in that its mineral soil is covered by what can be quite thick layers of organic soil. These organic soil layers, or horizons, can differ in their state of decomposition, source vegetation, and disturbance history. These differences result in varying soil properties (bulk density, C concentration, and nitrogen concentration) among soil horizons. Here we summarize these soil properties, as represented by over 3000 samples from Interior Alaska, and examine how soil drainage and stand age affect these attributes. The summary values presented here can be used to gap-fill large datasets when important soil properties were not measured, provide data to initialize process-based models, and validate model results. These data are available at 10.5066/P960N1F9 (Manies, 2019).
- Subjects
SOIL horizons; HISTOSOLS; SOIL mineralogy; NITROGEN; CARBON in soils; CARBON
- Publication
Earth System Science Data, 2020, Vol 12, Issue 3, p1745
- ISSN
1866-3508
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5194/essd-12-1745-2020