ArticleScientific reports2016
Rising soil temperature in China and its potential ecological impact.
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- Spatiotemporal Distribution of Continuous Precipitation and Its Effect on Vegetation Cover in China over the Past 30 Years.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Increasing soil nitrous acid emissions driven by climate and fertilization change aggravate global ozone pollution.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Daily station-level records of air temperature, snow depth, and ground temperature in the Northern Hemisphere.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Temperature changes in the root ecosystem affect plant functionality.Plant communications · 2023Article
- Soil temperature, microbial biomass and enzyme activity are the critical factors affecting soil respiration in different soil layers in Ziwuling Mountains, China.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Article
- Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes.Nature climate change · 2023Article
- Small spaces, big impacts: contributions of micro-environmental variation to population persistence under climate change.AoB PLANTS · 2020Review
- Asymmetric Soil Warming under Global Climate Change.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Global warming influences a series of ecological processes and ecosystems' stability. Although comprehensive studies have been done to investigate responses of various ecosystem processes to rising air temperatures, less is known about changes in soil temperatures and their impact on below-ground processes, particularly in deep layers. Herein, we used 50 y of temperature data (1962-2011) from 360 sites in China to assess spatio-temporal changes in soil temperatures from the surface to a depth of 3.20 m. We determined, apparently for the first time, that soil surface temperature increased 31% more than air temperature, potentially leading to more carbon release to the atmosphere than predicted. Annual mean surface temperature increased by 2.07-4.04 and 0.66-2.21 °C in northern and southern China, respectively, with the greatest in winter. Warming occurred as deep as 3.20 m. The soil temperature rise was predicted to have increased soil respiration by up to 28%, reinforcing climate warming and extending the potential growing season by up to 20 d across China. However, use of only air temperature to estimate soil temperature changes would underestimate those impacts. In conclusion, these results highlighted the importance of soil warming and of using soil temperature to assess and predict soil processes.
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