The Soil Carbon Paradigm Shift: Triangulating Theories, Measurements, and Models

Joseph C Blankinship1, Susan E Crow2, Joshua Schimel1, Carlos A Sierra3, Christina Schaedel4, Alain F Plante5, Aaron Thompson6, Asmeret Asefaw Asefaw Berhe7, Jennifer L Druhan8, Katherine A Heckman9, Marco Keiluweit10, Corey R Lawrence11, Erika Marin-Spiotta12, Craig Rasmussen13, Rota Wagai14 and William R Wieder15, (1)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (2)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology, Jena, Germany, (4)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (5)University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (6)University of Georgia, Crop and Soil Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, (7)University of California Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (9)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Houghton, United States, (10)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (11)US Geological Survey, Geoscience and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States, (12)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (13)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (14)NIAES National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, CO, United States