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A soil carbon and land use database for the United Kingdom
Author(s) -
Bradley R.I.,
Milne R.,
Bell J.,
Lilly A.,
Jordan C.,
Higgins A.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
soil use and management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1475-2743
pISSN - 0266-0032
DOI - 10.1079/sum2005351
Subject(s) - soil carbon , environmental science , silt , land use , total organic carbon , carbon fibers , soil science , soil survey , hydrology (agriculture) , soil water , geology , environmental chemistry , chemistry , ecology , mathematics , geotechnical engineering , paleontology , algorithm , biology , composite number
. The compilation of a database of soil carbon and land use is described, from which models of soil carbon dioxide emissions across the United Kingdom (UK) can be run. The database gives soil organic carbon, sand, silt and clay contents and bulk densities weighted to reference layers from 0 to 30 cm and from 30 to 100 cm depths. The data are interpolated from information on soil types and land use on a 1 km grid across the UK and are used to estimate soil carbon stocks. For 1990, the baseline year for the Kyoto Protocol on carbon emissions, the estimate is 4562 Tg soil organic carbon in the top 1 m of soil across the UK, with an average density of 18 kg m −2 . The data can be reported by layer (e.g. 54% in topsoils) and country (e.g. 48% in Scotland) as well as by soil and land type.