Special Issue "Implications for Soil Respiration in Forest Carbon Sequestration"

Dear Colleagues,

As the largest carbon efflux from terrestrial ecosystems to the atmosphere, soil respiration is essential to the global carbon balance. Over recent years, our understanding of forest soil respiration has significantly advanced due to the large amount of in situ observations across various ecosystems. The global change manipulative experiments and isotope labeling technique provide a new insight into the biogeochemical mechanisms of soil respiration under global change.

In this Special Issue on “Implications for Soil Respiration in Forest Carbon Sequestration”, we will report new insights of soil respiration interacting with forest diversity, root functional traits and soil microbial composition under global change, and new estimation of global/regional soil respiration and its components by machine learning and terrestrial ecosystem models. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1.New understanding of the interplay between forest diversity and soil respiration;
2.New advances of soil respirations in response to global change;
3.Biogeochemical mechanisms between soil respiration and soil organic carbon composition;
4.Interactive effects of root functional traits and microbial composition on soil respiration;
5.Data-driven estimation of global/regional soil respiration and its components;
6.Improvements of terrestrial ecosystem models;
7.Uncertainty in estimating soil respiration at the local, regional and global scale.

Dr. Haibo Lu
Dr. Bingwei Zhang
Dr. Lingyan Zhou
Dr. Yi Wang
Guest Editors

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• soil respiration
• global change
• carbon neutrality
• terrestrial ecosystem models
• machine learning

Title: Spatial variation patterns and drivers of soil respiration and its heterotrophic and autotrophic components: a global synthesis analysis
Authors: Yun Jiang
Affiliation: Zhuhai Branch of State Key Laboratory of Earth Surface Processes and Resource Ecology, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai 519087, People’s Republic of China