CHLSOC: the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database, a multi-institutional collaborative effort Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Abstract. A critical aspect of predicting soil organic carbon (SOC) concentrations is the lack of available soil information; where information on soil characteristics is available, it is usually focused on regions of high agricultural interest. To date, in Chile, a large proportion of the SOC data have been collected in areas of intensive agricultural or forestry use; however, vast areas beyond these forms of land use have few or no soil data available. Here we present a new SOC database for the country, which is the result of an unprecedented national effort under the framework of the Global Soil Partnership. This partnership has helped build the largest database of SOC to date in Chile, named the Chilean Soil Organic Carbon database (CHLSOC), comprising 13612data points compiled from numerous sources, including unpublished and difficult-to-access data. The database will allow users to fill spatial gaps where no SOC estimates were publicly available previously. Presented values of SOC range from 610-5% to 83.3%, reflecting the variety of ecosystems that exist in Chile. The database has the potential to inform and test current models that predict SOC stocks and dynamics at larger spatial scales, thus enabling benefits from the richness of geochemical, topographic and climatic variability in Chile. The database is freely available to registered users at https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NMYS3 (Pfeiffer et al., 2019b) under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License.

published proceedings

  • EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE DATA
  • Earth System Science Data

altmetric score

  • 7.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Pfeiffer, M., Padarian, J., Osorio, R., Bustamante, N., Federico Olmedo, G., Guevara, M., ... Zagal, E.

citation count

  • 14

complete list of authors

  • Pfeiffer, Marco||Padarian, José||Osorio, Rodrigo||Bustamante, Nelson||Olmedo, Guillermo Federico||Guevara, Mario||Aburto, Felipe||Albornoz, Francisco||Antilén, Monica||Araya, Elías||Arellano, Eduardo||Barret, Maialen||Barrera, Juan||Boeckx, Pascal||Briceño, Margarita||Bunning, Sally||Cabrol, Lea||Casanova, Manuel||Cornejo, Pablo||Corradini, Fabio||Curaqueo, Gustavo||Doetterl, Sebastian||Duran, Paola||Escudey, Mauricio||Espinoza, Angelina||Francke, Samuel||Fuentes, Juan Pablo||Fuentes, Marcel||Gajardo, Gonzalo||García, Rafael||Gallaud, Audrey||Galleguillos, Mauricio||Gomez, Andrés||Hidalgo, Marcela||Ivelic-Sáez, Jorge||Mashalaba, Lwando||Matus, Francisco||Meza, Francisco||de la Luz Mora, Maria||Mora, Jorge||Muñoz, Cristina||Norambuena, Pablo||Olivera, Carolina||Ovalle, Carlos||Panichini, Marcelo||Pauchard, Aníbal||Pérez-Quezada, Jorge F||Radic, Sergio||Ramirez, José||Riveras, Nicolás||Ruiz, Germán||Salazar, Osvaldo||Salgado, Iván||Seguel, Oscar||Sepúlveda, Maria||Sierra, Carlos||Tapia, Yasna||Tapia, Francisco||Toledo, Balfredo||Torrico, José Miguel||Valle, Susana||Vargas, Ronald||Wolff, Michael||Zagal, Erick

publication date

  • February 2020