Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems

Stefano Manzoni

Numerous definitions of carbon use and carbon storage efficiency (CUE and CSE, respectively) have been proposed to characterize how much of the carbon entering a biological or biogeochemical compartment remains in that compartment, as opposed to being lost via respiration or physical transport processes. This dataset includes CUE or CSE estimates for five systems: individual plants, soils, watersheds, non-vascular vegetation, and food webs. All data have been collated from literature sources in 2017-2018. The data can be used to compare the efficiencies of carbon retention across systems, or how efficiencies vary within a system as a function of environmental conditions and carbon exchange rates.

Terrestrial Soil Carbon use efficiency Carbon storage efficiency Soil organic carbon Plant carbon Sediment carbon Microbial biomass carbon Respiration Primary productivity

References

Manzoni S., Čapek P., Porada P., Thurner M., Winterdahl M., Beer C., Brüchert V., Frouz J., Herrmann A. M., Lindahl B. D., Lyon S. W., Šantrůčková H., Vico G., and D. Way (2018). Reviews and syntheses: Carbon use efficiency from organisms to ecosystems – Definitions, theories, and empirical evidence. Biogeosciences 15, doi:10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018

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Data description

The dataset is provided in an xlsx file, which contains one 'data description' tab and five data tabs; 'plant CUE and GGE', 'soil CSE', 'cathcment CUE', 'non-vascular vegetation CUE', 'food web C transfer efficiency'. See details and full references in the Supplementary Materials of the paper by Manzoni et al. (2018) for further explanation.

Comments

CONDITIONS FOR USE: As a condition for the use of this database, we request that all users agree that: 1) Full citation to the main article Manzoni et al. (2018, Biogeosciences 15, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-5929-2018) is provided when using the dataset. 2) This dataset is a collection of published data. Thus, full citation of the original articles (reported in the Supplementary Information) has to be provided when using data from individual species or sources. 3) The lead author S. Manzoni should be notified when the dataset is used in any publication or derivative work.

DISCLAIMER: The data points have been obtained from tables and digitalized figures, and in some cases subsequently analyzed, in the most accurate and reproduceable way. However, complete accuracy cannot be guaranteed and data are made available "as is". The authors of this dataset are thus not responsible for damages resulting from its use or interpretation in any derivative work.