CHLSOC: the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database, a multi-institutional collaborative effort
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: A critical aspect of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations is the lack of available soil information; where information on soil characteristics is available, it is usually focused on regions of high agricultural interest. To date, in Chile, a large proportion of the SOC data have been collected in areas of intensive agricultural or forestry use; however, vast areas beyond these forms of land use have few or no soil data available. Here we present a new SOC database for the country, which is the result of an unprecedented national effort under the framework of the Global Soil Partnership. This partnership has helped build the largest database of SOC to date in Chile, named the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database (CHLSOC), comprising 13 612 data points compiled from numerous sources, including unpublished and difficult-to-access data. The database will allow users to fill spatial gaps where no SOC estimates were publicly available previously. Presented values of SOC range from 6×10-5 % to 83.3 %, reflecting the variety of ecosystems that exist in Chile. The database has the potential to inform and test current models that predict SOC stocks and dynamics at larger spatial scales, thus enabling benefits from the richness of geochemical, topographic and climatic variability in Chile. The database is freely available to registered users at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NMYS3 (Pfeiffer et al., 2019b) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.
Source: Earth system science data
Authors: Marco Pfeiffer, José Padarian, Rodrigo Osorio, Nelson Bustamante, Guillermo Federico Olmedo, Mario Guevara, Felipe Aburto, Francisco Albornoz, Monica Antilén, Elías Araya, Eduardo Arellano, Maialen Barret, Juan Barrera, Pascal Boeckx, Margarita Briceño, Sally Bunning, Lea Cabrol, Manuel Casanova, Pablo Cornejo, Fabio Corradini, Gustavo Curaqueo, Sebastian Doetterl, Paola Duran, Mauricio Escudey, Angelina Espinoza, Samuel Francke, Juan Pablo Fuentes, Marcel Fuentes, Gonzalo Gajardo, Rafael García, Audrey Gallaud, Mauricio Galleguillos, Andrés Gomez, Marcela Hidalgo, Jorge Ivelic-Sáez, Lwando Mashalaba, Francisco Matus, Francisco Meza, Maria de la Luz Mora, Jorge Mora, Cristina Muñoz, Pablo Norambuena, Carolina Olivera, Carlos Ovalle, Marcelo Panichini, Aníbal Pauchard, Jorge F. Pérez-Quezada, Sergio Radic, José Ramirez, Nicolás Riveras, Germán Ruiz, Osvaldo Salazar, Iván Salgado, Oscar Seguel, Maria Sepúlveda, Carlos Sierra, Yasna Tapia, Francisco Tapia, Balfredo Toledo, José Miguel Torrico, Susana Valle, Ronald Vargas, Michael Wolff, Erick Zagal
Institutions: University of Chile, The University of Sydney, Ministerio de Agricultura, Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, National Agricultural Technology Institute, University of Delaware, University of Concepción, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Center of Applied Ecology & Sustainability, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, Centre d'Écologie Fonctionnelle et Évolutive, Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement, Université de Toulouse, Ghent University, Arturo Prat University, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Université de Toulon, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Méditerranéen d’Océanologie, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Universidad de La Frontera, Instituto de Investigaciones Agropecuarias, Universidad Católica de Temuco, ETH Zurich, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Gobierno de Chile, Institute of Ecology and Biodiversity, Universidad de Magallanes, United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, Austral University of Chile
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Domain: Life Sciences
SDGs: Life on land, Climate action
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,509
Funder: Universidad de Concepción
OpenAlex ID: W2980933434