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@ARTICLE{Herbst:839885,
author = {Herbst, M. and Welp, G. and Macdonald, A. and Jate, M. and
Hädicke, A. and Scherer, H. and Gaiser, T. and Herrmann, F.
and Amelung, W. and Vanderborght, J.},
title = {{C}orrespondence of measured soil carbon fractions and
{R}oth{C} pools for equilibrium and non-equilibrium states},
journal = {Geoderma},
volume = {314},
issn = {0016-7061},
address = {Amsterdam [u.a.]},
publisher = {Elsevier Science},
reportid = {FZJ-2017-07464},
pages = {37 - 46},
year = {2018},
abstract = {The link between carbon turnover model pools and measurable
carbon fractions is of key interest for initial
parameterisation and subsequent validation of dynamic soil
carbon models. In this study we performed the established
particle-size fractionation of soils from 54 intensively
monitored sites in Germany and from archived samples from 5
other long-term experiments in Germany and the United
Kingdom. The Rothamsted carbon (RothC) model was then used
to compare the measured soil C fractionation from the 54
intensively monitored sites against modelled pools using
spin-up equilibrium runs whilst dynamic (non-equilibrium)
model runs were performed when comparing data from the
long-term experiments. We detected good agreement between
measured soil C fractions and modelled pools, indicated by
correlation coefficients of 0.73 and 0.81 for the resistant
plant material pool (RPM) and 0.91 and 0.94 for the humus
pool (HUM) for the intensively monitored and the long-term
sites, respectively. Slightly larger errors were detected
for the intensively monitored sites together with a bias in
the relationship between the RPM pool and particulate
organic matter fraction. This bias detected for the
intensively monitored sites indicated that the equilibrium
assumption for arable agricultural sites, even though under
crop cover for at least 50 years, might not be entirely
valid. From the relative mean absolute error of $11\%$ for
the HUM pool and $26\%$ for the RPM pool of the combined
data set we conform that the measured fractions can be used
to estimate the RothC model pools in arable soils. Given the
magnitude of these errors, however, we rather suggest to
apply the fractionation approach instead of using an
equilibrium assumption for the RothC initialisation of
arable sites.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
UT = {WOS:000424178400005},
doi = {10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.10.047},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/839885},
}