Global Soil Respiration Responses to Warming from Three Independent Datasets

A compiled database presents evidence on the response of soil respiration components to climate warming. It integrates strictly comparable data on autotrophic and heterotrophic respiration from three independent global datasets. The dataset, authored by Lina Zhou and last updated in May 2026, is intended to serve as a benchmark for modeling studies of soil carbon-climate feedbacks.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil carbon-climate feedbacks based on the compiled warming responses of respiration components.
• Analyzing the relative contributions of autotrophs and heterotrophs to respiratory CO2 efflux under warming.
• Benchmarking Earth system models against empirical data on soil respiration partitioning.
• Investigating the convergent response of different respiration pathways to increased temperatures.

Strengths

• Integrates data from three independent but complementary global datasets.
• Specifically focuses on the warming responses of soil respiration components (Ra and Rh).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• The dataset is small in scale at 193.2 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Lina Zhou via figshare.

Collection Method

Compiled from three independent global datasets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-21 09:20:42; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Global