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srdb

Global soil respiration database.
https://github.com/bpbond/srdb

Category: Natural Resources
Sub Category: Soil and Land

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carbon-cycle data global-database science soil soil-respiration

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Global soil respiration database

README.md

If you want a simple download, click on Releases.
There's also a version on the ORNL DAAC.

srdb

Global soil respiration database
Last data update: 12 October 2024

About

The global soil respiration database (SRDB) is a database of published
studies about the flux of CO2 from the soil surface to the atmosphere ("soil
respiration") in the field. It's intended to serve as a resource for
scientific analysis.

Files in this repository

File Description
calculations Directory of spreadsheets (generally data estimated from figures)
expanded_field_notes.txt More info on some fields and their uses
LICENSE The MIT license: short, simple, and permissive
R R check script directory
README.md Generates this README
srdb-data_fields.txt Metadata for the srdb-data file
srdb-data.csv Main database
srdb-equations_fields.csv Metadata for the srdb-equations file
srdb-equations.csv Temperature and moisture sensitivity equations
srdb-studies_fields.txt Metadata for the srdb-studies file
srdb-studies.csv Studies database

Note that the srdb-equations.csv entries used to be part of the main data file,
but it was a lot of work, and didn't seem to be used, so we stopped updating it.

Major changelog

Date Change
20241012 Data up to 2022 entered by Gabriela Aguilar-Martinez, Melat Ghebreselassie, Alanna Hart, Brandon Kim, and Carly Pierce.
20221009 New 2018-2019 data entered by Elon Atlaw, Mahlet Dagnachew, and Emily Kang.
20210621 Many (400+) corrections to location, time, ecosystem type, etc.; thanks to Ni Huang! See PR #126.
20210522 New 2017 data entered by Shoshi Hornum and Hope Ng.
20200424 A variety of new data from the Russian-language literature; thanks to Nazar Kholod.
20200409 Ingest of LOTS of new data (through PY2017; srdb-data.csv goes from 7318 to 10311 rows) entered by @jmanzon, @darlinp, and @jinshijian.
20200220 Removed fields Rs_max, Rs_maxday, Rs_min, and Rs_minday from database; they haven't been used and are very inconsistent. Added Collar_height and merged a bunch of new data for that fields as well as Collar_depth, Chamber_area, and Time_of_day.
20191103 New fields (Collar_depth, Chamber_area, Time_of_day); first data from interns Darlin P. and Jason M.; data corrections by @jinshijian
20190915 Added lots of new data entered by @rbcmrchs and @jinshijian; corrections to older data; broke equations columns into separate, new srdb-equations.csv file.
20190306 Many corrections to longitude and latitude data; see issue #22. Thanks to @jinshijian.
20181101 Fixed a number of bad sand:silt:clay values, duplicate records, and other problems. Thanks to @ValentineHerr of SI, and Shafer Powell and Debjani Deb of ORNL DAAC.
20180724 Fixed a number of lat/lon problems, and reverted to purely decimal format for those fields. Thanks to Debjani Deb.
20180216 Updated the R QC script so it works correctly with new dataset.
20180215 All data through 2013 along with some 2014 and 2015. Fixes to partitioning (Rh_annual, Ra_annual) in some previous records (studies 2037, 5545, 5727, 6010, 6219). Study_midyear field changed so that X.5 is consistently middle of year X. Latitude and Longitude fields may now be either decimal or d-m-s format. Thanks to Mercedes Horn.
20150826 Fixes to faulty Longitude and Latitude values and site names; thanks to Yaxing Wei of ORNL. Some 2013 data added.
20140827 Shifted from Google Code (svn) to Github (git). No data changes.
20131218 Pubs from 2012 added (466 new records). Two new fields (measurement interval and annual coverage); renamed CO2_method to Meas_method; many corrections to older data; new R script for error-checking and mapping; removed kmz file.
20120510 Pubs from 2011 added, many other corrections to temp models. Figshare doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.868954.
20110524 A few late-breaking studies added, and kmz file updated.
20110513 Many missing 2010 studies added, and a number of errors fixed. Thanks to Dan Metcalfe and Les Hook.
20110224 More 2010 pubs added; three fields deleted: Chamber_method, CH4_flux, N2O_flux. These were all inconsistent or almost never used.
20101029 Pubs from first half of 2010 added.
20100825 A number of Age_disturbance fields corrected and filled in.
20100517 PY2009 data added. Field reordered to match Biogeosciences ms.
20100222 Partition_method field fixed for many records. Thanks to Myroslava Khomik.

A plot of database growth over time

How to use these data

Read the documentation! There are a few fields to be especially careful of,
especially "Quality_flag", "CO2_method" (e.g. many analyses will want to
exclude soda lime measurements), "Manipulation" (you may want to filter to
"None" to look at un-manipulated systems), "Ecosystem_state",
and "Ecosystem_type".

How to get a publication

If you'd like to obtain a PDF of one of the database studies, open an issue
or email Ben Bond-Lamberty, the maintainer.
In either case please specify the study number.

How to cite these data

This data set is open, and no co-authorship is required if you make
use of it. The relevant citation is:

  • Jian, Vargas, Anderson-Teixeira, Stell, Herrmann, Horn, Kholod, Manzon, Marchesi, Paredes, and Bond-Lamberty (2021). A restructured and updated global soil respiration database (SRDB-V5), Earth Syst. Sci. Data 13:255–267, 2021, doi: 10.5194/essd-13-255-2021.

The older, original citation is:

  • Bond-Lamberty and Thomson (2010). A global database of soil respiration measurements, Biogeosciences 7:1321-1344, doi: 10.5194/bgd-7-1321-2010.

Analyses using these data should include the database version (i.e. the tag,
such as "v20131218a", and ideally the git commit hash), download date, and URL.
(At some point in the future, releases will include a DOI, too.)

How to contribute

The goal is for this to be a dynamic, community database, not just an
archived blob. Why? Well, these data undoubtedly have mistakes and
omissions; the database could be structured more usefully for new
analyses; and the dataset should be extended as new studies are
published. Internet-based hosting services like give us the ability to
build a 21st-century data set that is modified by, and grows with,
the needs of the scientific community.

There are at least ways to contribute. The first, and preferred, way is
to fork out (using git) a copy of the data, just as if this were
an open-source software project. You can then modify or add data and
send me a pull request.
The second way is to open an issue.


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