New uses for old tools: Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research

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Autoren

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

Externe Organisationen

  • Universität Koblenz-Landau
  • California State University Monterey Bay
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Seiten (von - bis)5-11
Seitenumfang7
FachzeitschriftJournal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science
Jahrgang184
Ausgabenummer1
Frühes Online-Datum20 Jan. 2021
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Feb. 2021

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.

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New uses for old tools: Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research. / Jungkunst, Hermann F.; Goepel, Jan; Horvath, Thomas et al.
in: Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, Jahrgang 184, Nr. 1, 02.2021, S. 5-11.

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Jungkunst HF, Goepel J, Horvath T, Ott S, Brunn M. New uses for old tools: Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research. Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 2021 Feb;184(1):5-11. Epub 2021 Jan 20. doi: 10.1002/jpln.202100008
Jungkunst, Hermann F. ; Goepel, Jan ; Horvath, Thomas et al. / New uses for old tools : Reviving Holdridge Life Zones in soil carbon persistence research. in: Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science. 2021 ; Jahrgang 184, Nr. 1. S. 5-11.
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