New uses for old tools

Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research

verfasst von

Hermann F. Jungkunst, Jan Goepel, Thomas Horvath, Simone Ott, Melanie Brunn

Abstract

Growing evidence suggests that climate classification facilitates the identification of zones that either agree or disagree with processes explaining soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence. Already forty years ago, Post et al. (1982) posited that the strict temperature and precipitation-based classification defining the Holdridge Life Zones (HLZ) provides a descriptive tool to guide our understanding of the heterogeneous distribution of global SOC stocks. Here we argue that this classification has the potential for describing SOC persistence by linking top-down and bottom-up approaches from different scales, which allows selection of individual regional relevancies necessary to manage and track the fate of our largest terrestrial carbon (C) reservoir.

Organisationseinheit(en)

Institut für Physische Geographie und Landschaftsökologie
Arbeitsgruppe Physische Geographie

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Koblenz-Landau
California State University Monterey Bay

Typ

Editorial in Fachzeitschrift

Journal

Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science

Band

184

Seiten

5-11

Anzahl der Seiten

7

ISSN

1522-2624

Publikationsdatum

02.2021

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Bodenkunde, Pflanzenkunde

Ziele für nachhaltige Entwicklung

SDG 13 – Klimaschutzmaßnahmen

Elektronische Version(en)

https://doi.org/10.1002/jpln.202100008 (Zugang: Offen)