ArticleNature communications2020
Soil structure is an important omission in Earth System Models.
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- Declining winter snowpack offsets carbon storage enhancement from growing season warming in northern temperate forest ecosystems.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- PSInet: a new global water potential network.Tree physiology · 2024Article
- Dataset of soil hydraulic parameters in the Yellow River Basin based on in situ deep sampling.Scientific data · 2024Article
- Synergistic effects of organic carbon and silica in preserving structural stability of drying soils.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Fine-resolution profile-scale data to depict the impact of tillage treatment and machine traffic on agricultural soil structure and hydrologic properties.Data in brief · 2023Article
- Analytical modelling of soil porosity and bulk density across the soil organic matter and land-use continuum.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Impact of Climate and Slope Aspects on the Composition of Soil Bacterial Communities Involved in Pedogenetic Processes along the Chilean Coastal Cordillera.Microorganisms · 2022Article
- Confronting the water potential information gap.Nature geoscience · 2022Article
- A framework for modelling soil structure dynamics induced by biological activity.Global change biology · 2020Review
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Abstract
Most soil hydraulic information used in Earth System Models (ESMs) is derived from pedo-transfer functions that use easy-to-measure soil attributes to estimate hydraulic parameters. This parameterization relies heavily on soil texture, but overlooks the critical role of soil structure originated by soil biophysical activity. Soil structure omission is pervasive also in sampling and measurement methods used to train pedotransfer functions. Here we show how systematic inclusion of salient soil structural features of biophysical origin affect local and global hydrologic and climatic responses. Locally, including soil structure in models significantly alters infiltration-runoff partitioning and recharge in wet and vegetated regions. Globally, the coarse spatial resolution of ESMs and their inability to simulate intense and short rainfall events mask effects of soil structure on surface fluxes and climate. Results suggest that although soil structure affects local hydrologic response, its implications on global-scale climate remains elusive in current ESMs.
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