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Article dans une revue National Science Review Année : 2019

Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation

Shan Xu
Stefano Manzoni
Xuli Tang
Wantong Wang
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Gengxu Wang
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Sheng Du
Youxin Ma
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Deqiang Zhang
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Juxiu Liu
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Shizhong Liu
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Guowei Chu
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Qianmei Zhang
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Yuelin Li
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Wenjuan Huang
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Hai Ren
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Xiankai Lu
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Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays critical roles in stabilizing atmospheric CO2 concentration, but the mechanistic controls on the amount and distribution of SOC on global scales are not well understood. In turn, this has hampered the ability to model global C budgets and to find measures to mitigate climate change. Here, based on the data from a large field survey campaign with 2600 plots across China's forest ecosystems and a global collection of published data from forested land, we find that a low litter carbon-to-nitrogen ratio (C/N) and high wetness index (P/PET, precipitation-to-potential-evapotranspiration ratio) are the two factors that promote SOC accumulation, with only minor contributions of litter quantity and soil texture. The field survey data demonstrated that high plant diversity decreased litter C/N and thus indirectly promoted SOC accumulation by increasing the litter quality. We conclude that any changes in plant-community composition, plant-species richness and environmental factors that can reduce the litter C/N ratio, or climatic changes that increase wetness index, may promote SOC accumulation. The study provides a guideline for modeling the carbon cycle of various ecosystem scales and formulates the principle for land-based actions for mitigating the rising atmospheric CO2 concentration.
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hal-02899679, version 1 (15-07-2020)

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Guoyi Zhou, Shan Xu, Philippe Ciais, Stefano Manzoni, Jingyun Fang, et al.. Climate and litter C/N ratio constrain soil organic carbon accumulation. National Science Review, 2019, 6 (4), pp. 746-757. ⟨10.1093/nsr/nwz045⟩. ⟨hal-02899679⟩
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