Global maps of soil temperature
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- 4Ghent University
- 5University of Oulu
- 6Czech Academy of Sciences
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- 19Agroscope Res Inst
- 20UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH)
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- 22European Commission Joint Research Centre
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- 25University of Oslo
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- 27Philipps University Marburg
- 28Slovak Academy of Sciences
- 29Agr Univ Iceland
- 30Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas (CONICET)
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- 32Fondazione Edmund Mach
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- 34Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
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- 37Norwegian Institute Nature Research
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- 39University of California System
- 40Helmholtz Association
- 41Institute Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia
- 42AgroParisTech
- 43Universidade Federal de Lavras
- 44Ordu University
- 45University of Insubria
- 46University of Parma
- 47University of Barcelona
- 48Universidad Catolica de Temuco
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- 50Poznan University of Life Sciences
- 51Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes
- 52Monash University
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- 72Imperial College London
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- 99HAWK University of Applied Sciences & Arts Hildesheim Holzminden Gottingen
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- 116Open University of Cyprus
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- 127Universidade de Sao Paulo
- 128Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)
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- 133Centro de Investigacion Ecologica y Aplicaciones Forestales (CREAF-CERCA)
- 134University of Tartu
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- 143Univ Appl Sci Trier
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- 149Eberhard Karls University of Tubingen
- 150Dept Bot & Biodivers Res
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- 169University of Lausanne
- 170Forest Res
- 171Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 172Northeast Normal University - China
- 173East China Normal University
Journal
Global Change Biology
ISSN
1354-1013
1365-2486
Open Access
hybrid
Volume
28
Start page
3110
End page
3144
Research in global change ecology relies heavily on global climatic grids derived from estimates of air temperature in open areas at around 2 m above the ground. These climatic grids do not reflect conditions below vegetation canopies and near the ground surface, where critical ecosystem functions occur and most terrestrial species reside. Here, we provide global maps of soil temperature and bioclimatic variables at a 1-km(2) resolution for 0-5 and 5-15 cm soil depth. These maps were created by calculating the difference (i.e. offset) between in situ soil temperature measurements, based on time series from over 1200 1-km(2) pixels (summarized from 8519 unique temperature sensors) across all the world's major terrestrial biomes, and coarse-grained air temperature estimates from ERA5-Land (an atmospheric reanalysis by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts). We show that mean annual soil temperature differs markedly from the corresponding gridded air temperature, by up to 10 degrees C (mean = 3.0 +/- 2.1 degrees C), with substantial variation across biomes and seasons. Over the year, soils in cold and/or dry biomes are substantially warmer (+3.6 +/- 2.3 degrees C) than gridded air temperature, whereas soils in warm and humid environments are on average slightly cooler (-0.7 +/- 2.3 degrees C). The observed substantial and biome-specific offsets emphasize that the projected impacts of climate and climate change on near-surface biodiversity and ecosystem functioning are inaccurately assessed when air rather than soil temperature is used, especially in cold environments. The global soil-related bioclimatic variables provided here are an important step forward for any application in ecology and related disciplines. Nevertheless, we highlight the need to fill remaining geographic gaps by collecting more in situ measurements of microclimate conditions to further enhance the spatiotemporal resolution of global soil temperature products for ecological applications.
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