Lithology- and climate-controlled soil aggregate-size distribution and organic carbon stability in the Peruvian Andes

Yang, Songyu; Jansen, Boris; Absalah, Samira; van Hall, Rutger L.; Kalbitz, Karsten; Cammeraat, Erik L. H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-1-2020

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-1-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 1

Original research article

|

27 Jan 2020

Original research article |

| 27 Jan 2020

Lithology- and climate-controlled soil aggregate-size distribution and organic carbon stability in the Peruvian Andes

Songyu Yang, Boris Jansen, Samira Absalah, Rutger L. van Hall, Karsten Kalbitz, and Erik L. H. Cammeraat

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-6-1-2020-supplement

Data sets

Dataset for Yang et al. Lithology and climate-controlled soil aggregate-size distribution and organic carbon stability in the Peruvian Andes, SOIL S. Yang https://doi.org/10.21942/uva.11698620.v1

Short summary

Soils store large carbon and are important for global warming. We do not know what factors are important for soil carbon storage in the alpine Andes or how they work. We studied how rainfall affects soil carbon storage related to soil structure. We found soil structure is not important, but soil carbon storage and stability controlled by rainfall is dependent on rocks under the soils. The results indicate that we should pay attention to the rocks when we study soil carbon storage in the Andes.