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BIOGEOSCIENCES
卷 10, 期 7, 页码 4691-4704出版社
COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-4691-2013
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- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ireland
Soil bulk density (D-b) is a major contributor to uncertainties in landscape-scale carbon and nutrient stock estimation. However, it is time consuming to measure and is, therefore, frequently predicted using surrogate variables, such as soil texture. Using this approach is of limited value for estimating landscape-scale inventories, as its accuracy beyond the sampling point at which texture is measured becomes highly uncertain. In this paper, we explore the ability of soil landscape models to predict soil D-b using a suite of landscape attributes and derivatives for both topsoil and subsoil. The models were constructed using random forests and artificial neural networks. Using these statistical methods, we have produced a spatially distributed prediction of D-b on a 100 m x 100 m grid, which was shown to significantly improve topsoil carbon stock estimation. In comparison to using mean values from point measurements, stratified by soil class, we found that the gridded method predicted D-b more accurately, especially for higher and lower values within the range. Within our study area of the Midlands, UK, we found that the gridded prediction of D-b produced a stock inventory of over 1 million tonnes of carbon greater than the stratified mean method. Furthermore, the 95% confidence interval associated with total C stock prediction was almost halved by using the gridded method. The gridded approach was particularly useful in improving organic carbon (OC) stock estimation for fine-scale landscape units at which many landscape-atmosphere interaction models operate.
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