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GENERAL INFORMATION

Decomposition rate constants of organic substrates in soil across the global temperature gradient

Principal Investigator Contact Information

Name: Kazumichi Fujii
Institution: Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute
Address: Tsukuba 305-8687, Japan.
Email: fkazumichi@affrc.go.jp

Abstract

To identify the factors regulating litter decomposition rate constants and their temperature sensitivity, we compiled the data of site information [Country, District, Vegetation or land use, Plant type, Mean annual air temperature (ºC), Mean annual precipitation (mm y-1), Soil type (Soil Taxonomy), Soil pH, Organic horizon C stock (Mg C ha-1), Litterfall C input (Mg C ha-1 y-1), Litter turnover (y).

Description of the data and file structure

DATA-SPECIFIC INFORMATION FOR: Soil_water_project_tables.xlsx

1. Number of variables: 11 (Table 1), 11 (Table 2)

2. Number of cases/rows: 194 (Table 1), 73 (Table 2)

3. Variable List:

Table S1:
*Country
*District
*Vegetation_landuse_EcosystemType
*Plant type
*MAT [Mean annual air temperature (ºC)]
*MAP [Mean annual precipitation (mm y-1)]
*Soil_Tax [Soil Taxonomy]
*Soil_pH
*Substrate
*Decomposition rate constant
*Ref.

Table S2:
*Country
*District
*Vegetation_landuse_EcosystemType
*Plant type
*MAT [Mean annual air temperature (ºC)]
*MAP [Mean annual precipitation (mm y-1)]
*Soil_Tax [Soil Taxonomy]
*Soil_pH
*Additional_calculation [Litterfall_C_MgChayr, OrganicCstock_MgCha, litter_Turnover_yr]
*Data_value
*Ref.

1. Missing data codes: NA (data not available)

2. Specialized formats or other abbreviations used:

MAT represents Mean annual air temperature (ºC).
MAP represents Mean annual precipitation (mm y-1).
Soil_Tax represents soil types classified based on Soil Taxonomy (Soil survey staff, 2022).

Sharing/Access information

Licenses/restrictions placed on the data: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain

Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data: None

Data was derived from the following sources:

1. Fujii et al. (2021a)
2. Fujii et al. (2020)
3. Rochette et al. (1999)
4. Moore (1984)
5. Gregorich et al. (1995)
6. Ryan et al. (1995)
7. Turetsky et al. (2008)
8. Trumbore & Harden (1997)
9. Sparrow et al. (1992)
10. McCune & Daly (1994)
11. Trumbore et al. (1996)
12. Moore et al. (2007)
13. Sedia & Ehrenfeld(2006)
14. Tarkalson et al. (2008)
15. Six et al. (1998)
16. Clapp et al.(2000) 17.Lehman et al. (2008)
17. Grandy et al. (2013)
18. House et al. (1997)
19. Harmon et al. (2009)
20. Velkamp (1994)
21. Cerri & Andreux (1990)
22. Desjardins et al. (1994)
23. Tonucci et al. (2017)
24. Lima et al. (2006)
25. Neil et al. (1996)
26. Sisti et al. (2004)
27. Zotarelli et al. (2007)
28. Machado et al. (2003)
29. Caldiz et al. (2007)
30. Hopkins et al. (1990)
31. Nilsson et al. (1990)
32. Wardle et al. (2003)
33. Lang et al. (2009)
34. Cornelissen et al. (2007)
35. Sjögersten & Wookey (2004)
36. Andren & Paustian (1987)
37. Kurka & Starr(1997)
38. Starr & Ukonmaanaho(2004)
39. Zurbrügg et al. (2010)
40. Balesdent et al. (1988)
41. Balesdent et al. (1987)
42. Foereid et al. (2004)
43. Sherman & Steinberger (2012)
44. Fujii et al. (2021b)
45. Eusufzai et al. (2013)
46. Ono et al. (2011)
47. Hayakawa et al. (2014)
48. Nakatsubo et al. (1997)
49. Ando et al. (1986)
50. Maeda & Onikura (1977)
51. Fujii et al. (2021b)
52. Liu et al. (2000)
53. Xiao et al. (2014)
54. Gao et al. (2016)
55. Ladha et al. (2004)
56. Reddy et al. (1994)
57. Schmidt et al. (2016)
58. Mitani et al. (2021)
59. Kitayama et al. (2004)
60. Fujii et al. (2019)
61. Curtin et al. (2008)
62. Gao et al. (2016)
63. Dalal et al. (2011)
64. Diels et al. (1992)
65. Rezig et al. (2014)
66. Gilot-Villenave et al.(1996)
67. Daudu et al. (2009).

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