Key Process Uncertainties in Soil Carbon Dynamics: Comparing Multiple Model Structures and Observational Meta-analysis

Benjamin N Sulman1, Jessica Moore2, Colin Averill3, Rose Z Abramoff4, Mark Bradford5, Aimee Classen6, Melannie Diane Hartman7, Stephanie N. Kivlin8, Yiqi Luo9, Melanie A Mayes10, Eric W Morrison11, William J Riley12, Alejandro Salazar13, Joshua Schimel14, Bhavya Sridhar15, Jinyun Tang4, Gangsheng Wang16 and William R Wieder17, (1)Princeton University, Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton, NJ, United States, (2)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (3)Funga PBC, Austin, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (5)Yale University, The Forest School, New Haven, CT, United States, (6)University of Vermont, Burlington, United States, (7)Colorado State University, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Fort Collins, United States, (8)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (9)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States, (10)Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Environmental Science Division, Oak Ridge, TN, United States, (11)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Durham, NH, United States, (12)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)Purdue University, Biological Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (14)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (15)Cornell University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Ithaca, NY, United States, (16)University of Oklahoma, Institute for Environmental Genomics, Department of Microbiology and Plant Biology, Norman, OK, United States, (17)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, CO, United States