The ORNL DAAC is pleased to announce the release of a new compilation of soil respiration data.
A Global Database of Soil Respiration Data, Version 1.0. Data set prepared by B.P. Bond-Lamberty and A.M. Thomson.
This data set provides a soil respiration database (SRDB), a near-universal compendium of published soil respiration (RS) data. The database encompasses all published studies that report at least one of the following data measured in the field (not laboratory): annual RS, mean seasonal RS, a seasonal or annual partitioning of RS into its sources fluxes, RS temperature response (Q10), or RS at 10 degrees C. Its orientation is thus to seasonal and annual fluxes, not shorter-term or chamber-specific measurements and is dominated by temperate, well-drained forest measurement locations. The database includes a file of RS data and a linked file of study bibliographic data. Both files are in comma-separated format.
The compilers of the soil respiration database make it available to the scientific community both as a traditional static archive (ORNL DAAC) and as a dynamic community database that will be updated over time by interested users. The dynamic version of the database is hosted on Google Code: http://code.google.com/p/srdb/. The ORNL DAAC will release Version 1.0 and update this version on an annual basis to incorporate changes and additions submitted by the RS community via the Google Code site and by Bond-Lamberty and Thomson.
The ORNL DAAC is a NASA-funded data center archiving and distributing terrestrial ecology and biogeochemical dynamics data.