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Article Dans Une Revue Biogeosciences Année : 2011

Spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in France

Manuel Pascal Martin
Jeroen Meersmans
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Claudy C. Jolivet
Line Boulonne
Dominique D. Arrouays

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Soil organic carbon plays a major role in the global carbon budget, and can act as a source or a sink of atmospheric carbon, thereby possibly influencing the course of climate change. Changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks are now taken into account in international negotiations regarding climate change. Consequently, developing sampling schemes and models for estimating the spatial distribution of SOC stocks is a priority. The French soil monitoring network has been established on a 16 km x 16 km grid and the first sampling campaign has recently been completed, providing around 2200 measurements of stocks of soil organic carbon, obtained through an in situ composite sampling, uniformly distributed over the French territory. We calibrated a boosted regression tree model on the observed stocks, modelling SOC stocks as a function of other variables such as climatic parameters, vegetation net primary productivity, soil properties and land use. The calibrated model was evaluated through cross-validation and eventually used for estimating SOC stocks for mainland France. Two other models were calibrated on forest and agricultural soils separately, in order to assess more precisely the influence of pedo-climatic variables on SOC for such soils. The boosted regression tree model showed good predictive ability, and enabled quantification of relationships between SOC stocks and pedo-climatic variables (plus their interactions) over the French territory. These relationships strongly depended on the land use, and more specifically, differed between forest soils and cultivated soil. The total estimate of SOC stocks in France was 3.260 +/- 0.872 PgC for the first 30 cm. It was compared to another estimate, based on the previously published European soil organic carbon and bulk density maps, of 5.303 PgC. We demonstrate that the present estimate might better represent the actual SOC stock distributions of France, and consequently that the previously published approach at the European level greatly overestimates SOC stocks.

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hal-02646169 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Manuel Pascal Martin, M. Wattenbach, P. Smith, Jeroen Meersmans, Claudy C. Jolivet, et al.. Spatial distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in France. Biogeosciences, 2011, 8 (5), pp.1053-1065. ⟨10.5194/bg-8-1053-2011⟩. ⟨hal-02646169⟩
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