COSORE: A Community Database for Continuous Soil Respiration and Other Soil-Atmosphere Greenhouse Gas Flux Data

Authors

• Ben Bond-Lamberty, University of Maryland at College Park
• Danielle S. Christianson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Avni Malhotra, Stanford University
• Stephanie C. Pennington, University of Maryland at College Park
• Debjani Sihi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Amir AghaKouchak, University of California, Irvine
• Hassan Anjileli, University of California, Irvine
• M. Altaf Arain, McMaster University
• Juan J. Armesto, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
• Samaneh Ashraf, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Mioko Ataka, Kyoto University
• Dennis Baldocchi, University of California - Berkeley
• Thomas Andrew Black, University of British Columbia
• Nina Buchmann, ETH Zurich
• Mariah S. Carbone, Northern Arizona University
• Shih-Chieh Chang, National Dong Hwa University
• Patrick Crill, Stockholm University
• Peter S. Curtis, Ohio State University
• Eric A. Davidson, University of Maryland
• Ankur R. Desai, University of Wisconsin - Madison
• John E. Drake, SUNY-ESF
• Tarek S. El-Madany, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Michael Gavazzi, USDA Forest Service,
• Carolyn-Monika Görres, University of Antwerp
• Christopher M. Gough, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Michael Goulden, University of California, Irvine
• Jillian Gregg, Oregon State University
• Omar Gutiérrez del Arroyo, University of California - Berkeley
• Jin-Sheng He, Peking University
• Takashi Hirano, Hokkaido University
• Anya Hopple, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
• Holly Hughes, University of Maine
• Järvi Järveoja, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Rachhpal Jassal, ETH Zurich
• Jinshi Jian, University of Maryland at College Park
• Haiming Kan, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
• Jason Kaye, The Pennsylvania State University
• Yuji Kominami, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan
• Naishen Liang, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
• David Lipson, San Diego State University
• Catriona A. Macdonald, Western Sydney University
• Kadmiel Maseyk, The Open University
• Kayla Mathes, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Marguerite Mauritz, University of Texas at El Paso
• Melanie A. Mayes, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
• Steve McNulty, USDA Forest Service,
• Guofang Miao, Fujian Normal University
• Mirco Migliavacca, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Scott Miller, University at Albany, State University of New York
• Chelcy F. Miniat, USDA Forest Service
• Jennifer G. Nietz, Ohio State University
• Mats B. Nilsson, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Asko Noormets, Texas A&M University, College Station
• Hamidreza Norouzi, The City University of New York
• Christine S. O'Connell, Chapman UniversityFollow
• Bruce Osborne, University College Dublin
• Cecilio Oyonarte, University of Almería
• Zhuo Pang, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
• Matthias Peichl, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Elise Pendall, Western Sydney University
• Jorge F. Perez-Quezada, University of Chile
• Claire L. Phillips, USDA Agricultural Research Service
• Richard P. Phillips, Indiana University - Bloomington
• James W. Raich, Iowa State University
• Alexandre A. Renchon, Western Sydney University
• Nadine K. Ruehr, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, University of Granada
• Matthew Saunders, Trinity College Dublin
• Kathleen E. Savage, Woods Hole Research Center
• Marion Schrumpf, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Russell L. Scott, USDA-ARS
• Ulli Seibt, University of California, Los Angeles
• Whendee L. Silver, University of California - Berkeley
• Wu Sun, Carnegie Institution for Science
• Daphne Szutu, University of California - Berkeley
• Kentaro Takagi, Hokkaido University
• Masahiro Takagi, University of Miyazaki
• Munemasa Teramoto, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
• Mark G. Tjoelker, Western Sydney University
• Susan Trumbore, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Masahito Ueyama, Osaka Prefecture University
• Rodrigo Vargas, University of Delaware
• Ruth K. Varner, University of New Hampshire, Durham
• Joseph Verfaillie, University of California - Berkeley
• Christoph Vogel, The University Of Michigan
• Jinsong Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Greg Winston, Cypress Coll
• Tana E. Wood, USDA Forest Service International Institute of Tropical Forestry
• Juying Wu, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences
• Thomas Wutzler, Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry
• Jiye Zeng, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan
• Tianshan Zha, Beijing Forestry University
• Quan Zhang, Wuhan University
• Junliang Zou, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

10-7-2020

Abstract

Globally, soils store two to three times as much carbon as currently resides in the atmosphere, and it is critical to understand how soil greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and uptake will respond to ongoing climate change. In particular, the soil-to-atmosphere CO₂ flux, commonly though imprecisely termed soil respiration (R_S), is one of the largest carbon fluxes in the Earth system. An increasing number of high-frequency R_S measurements (typically, from an automated system with hourly sampling) have been made over the last two decades; an increasing number of methane measurements are being made with such systems as well. Such high frequency data are an invaluable resource for understanding GHG fluxes, but lack a central database or repository. Here we describe the lightweight, open-source COSORE (COntinuous SOil REspiration) database and software, that focuses on automated, continuous and long-term GHG flux datasets, and is intended to serve as a community resource for earth sciences, climate change syntheses and model evaluation. Contributed datasets are mapped to a single, consistent standard, with metadata on contributors, geographic location, measurement conditions and ancillary data. The design emphasizes the importance of reproducibility, scientific transparency and open access to data. While being oriented towards continuously measured R_S, the database design accommodates other soil-atmosphere measurements (e.g. ecosystem respiration, chamber-measured net ecosystem exchange, methane fluxes) as well as experimental treatments (heterotrophic only, etc.). We give brief examples of the types of analyses possible using this new community resource and describe its accompanying R software package.

Comments

This article was originally published in Global Change Biology, volume 26, issue 12, in 2020. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15353

Recommended Citation

Bond-Lamberty B, Christianson DS, Malhotra A, et al. COSORE: A community database for continuous soil respiration and other soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas flux data. Glob Change Biol. 2020;26:7268–7283. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15353

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