Soil respiration – R S , the flux of CO 2 from the soil to the atmosphere – is probably the least
well constrained component of the terrestrial carbon cycle. Here we introduce the SRDB …

… We used data from two versions of the global soil respiration database (SRDB): v3 (downloaded
5 September 2018; http://dx.doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1235) and v5 (downloaded 9 …

… Soil respiration (Rs) is one of the key processes that underline … for global patterns of carbon
source or sink [13–15]. Temperature and precipitation have strong impacts on soil respiration …

… to global estimates. For each trial (N = 1,000 in total), a new, random, model was generated
on the basis of the estimate … , and used to compute the annual global R S for each year in the …

… annual Rs flux is 94.3 PgC/yr with an estimation error of 17.9 PgC/yr at a 95% confidence …
our ability to improve the accuracy of estimation. Based on the global estimation of Rs flux, we …

… Specifically, our objectives were as follows: (1) to generate global estimates of R root :R
S based on the new and improved SRDB-V5; (2) to determine the best statistical predictors (and …

… global soil respiration dataset, the monthly global soil respiration dataset, and the daily global
soil respiration … We collected an additional 25 global environmental variables to support R …

… in global soil respiration and our analysis emphasizes the relevance of the soil carbon flux
from soil … The purpose of this study was to provide a new global estimate of the spatiotemporal …

… and roots in soil emit carbon dioxide that flow to the atmosphere. This “soil respiration” has
… Historical estimates of global soil respiration (R s ), including that of Zhao et al. (2017) (in red…

… Estimated at approximately 75 × 1015 gC/yr, this large natural … concerned that changes in
soil respiration may contribute to the … recent estimates of the global sink for carbon in soils are …