Beyond clay - using selective extractions to improve predictions of soil carbon content
Craig Rasmussen1, Asmeret Asefaw Asefaw Berhe2, Joseph C Blankinship3, Susan E Crow4, Jennifer L Druhan5, Katherine A Heckman6, Marco Keiluweit7, Corey R Lawrence8, Erika Marin-Spiotta9, Alain F Plante10, Christina Schaedel11, Joshua Schimel3, Carlos A Sierra12, Aaron Thompson13, Rota Wagai14 and William R Wieder15, (1)University of Arizona, Soil, Water and Environmental Science, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)University of California Merced, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Merced, CA, United States, (3)University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States, (4)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, United States, (6)USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Houghton, United States, (7)University of Massachusetts-Amherst, Amherst, MA, United States, (8)US Geological Survey, Geoscience and Environmental Change Science Center, Denver, United States, (9)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (10)University of Pennsylvania, Earth & Environmental Science, Philadelphia, PA, United States, (11)Northern Arizona University, Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Flagstaff, United States, (12)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Theoretical Ecosystem Ecology, Jena, Germany, (13)University of Georgia, Crop and Soil Sciences, Athens, GA, United States, (14)NIAES National Institute for Agro-Environmental Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan, (15)National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD, Boulder, CO, United States