Global Distributions of Reactive Iron and Aluminum Influence the Spatial Variation of Soil Organic Carbon,Global Change Biology

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Global Distributions of Reactive Iron and Aluminum Influence the Spatial Variation of Soil Organic Carbon
Global Change Biology ( IF 10.8 ) Pub Date : 2024-11-15 , DOI: 10.1111/gcb.17576
Siyu Ren, Chuankuan Wang, Zhenghu Zhou

Organic carbon persistence in soils is predominantly controlled by physical accessibility rather than by its biochemical recalcitrance. Understanding the regulation of soil iron (Fe) and aluminum (Al) (hydr)oxides, playing a dominant role in mineral protection, on soil organic carbon (SOC) would increase the reliable projections of the feedback of terrestrial ecosystems to global warming. Here, we conducted a continental‐scale survey in China (341 sites) and a global synthesis (6786 observations) to reveal the global distributions of Fe/Al (hydr)oxides and their effects on SOC storage in terrestrial ecosystems. We generated the first global maps of soil Fe/Al (hydr)oxides with high accuracy (with R2 more than 0.74). The variance decomposition analysis showed that Fe/Al (hydr)oxides explained the most proportion of variance for topsoil (0–30 cm) and subsoil (30–100 cm) SOC. Therefore, soil Fe/Al (hydr)oxides play a stronger role in explaining the spatial variation of SOC than well‐studied climate, edaphic, vegetated, and soil depth factors in both topsoil and subsoil. Collectively, the planetary‐scale significance of soil Fe/Al (hydr)oxides for SOC highlights that soil Fe/Al (hydr)oxides should be incorporated into Earth System Models to reduce the uncertainty in predicting SOC dynamics.

更新日期：2024-11-15

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