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    • A Global Database of Soil Respiration Data, Version 5.0

    Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

    The Soil Respiration Database (SRDB) is a near-universal compendium of published soil respiration (Rs) data. The database encompasses published studies that report at least one of the following data measured in the field (not laboratory): annual soil respiration, mean seasonal soil respiration, a seasonal or annual partitioning of soil respiration into its source fluxes, soil respiration temperature response (Q10), or soil respiration at 10 degrees C. The SRDB's orientation is to seasonal and annual fluxes, not shorter-term or chamber-specific measurements, and the database is dominated by temperate, well-drained forest measurement locations. Version 5 (V5) is the compilation of 2,266 published studies with measurements taken between 1961-2017. V5 features more soil respiration data published in Russian and Chinese scientific literature for better global spatio-temporal coverage and improved global climate-space representation. The database is also restructured to have better interoperability with other datasets related to carbon-cycle science.

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    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from NASA Data.json

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    Locations of SRDB V5 observations. SRDB-V4 are all observations in V4 database (n=1584). SRDB-V5 (Chinese) are new sites from Chinese literature (n=41). SRDB-V5 (Russian) are new sites from Russian literature (n=16). SRDB-V5 (other) are new sites from literature published in other languages (primarily English) (n=840). The size of circles represents the sample size at each site, where larger circles signify more data. Source: Jian et al. (2020)

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date December 1, 2022
    Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
    Publisher ORNL_DAAC
    Maintainer
    Identifier C2216864433-ORNL_CLOUD
    Data First Published 2021-02-28
    Language en-US
    Data Last Modified 2023-06-12
    Category Soil, geospatial
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 026:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.nasa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Citation Jian, J., R. Vargas, K.J. Anderson-Teixeira, E. Stell, V. Herrmann, M. Horn, N. Kholod, J. Manzon, R. Marchesi, D. Paredes, and B.P. Bond-Lamberty. 2021. A Global Database of Soil Respiration Data, Version 5.0. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1827
    Graphic Preview Description Locations of SRDB V5 observations. SRDB-V4 are all observations in V4 database (n=1584). SRDB-V5 (Chinese) are new sites from Chinese literature (n=41). SRDB-V5 (Russian) are new sites from Russian literature (n=16). SRDB-V5 (other) are new sites from literature published in other languages (primarily English) (n=840). The size of circles represents the sample size at each site, where larger circles signify more data. Source: Jian et al. (2020)
    Graphic Preview File https://daac.ornl.gov/SOILS/guides/SRDB_V5_Figure1.jpg
    Harvest Object Id bbc63e87-212a-4f40-bc37-4725c5d76d96
    Harvest Source Id 58f92550-7a01-4f00-b1b2-8dc953bd598f
    Harvest Source Title NASA Data.json
    Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1827
    Metadata Type geospatial
    Old Spatial -163.71 -78.02 175.9 81.8
    Program Code 026:001
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 87b8e09a8f423a4b739a6c0d4cebb2c210529bc0db15b1729653c169fc521db3
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Spatial
    Temporal 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z/2017-12-31T23:59:59Z

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