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Stalagmite carbon isotopes suggest deglacial increase in soil respiration in western Europe driven by temperature change
Franziska A. Lechleitner
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Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,
OX1 3AN, Oxford, UK
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3, 3012 Bern, Switzerland
Invited contribution by Franziska A. Lechleitner, recipient of the EGU Climate: Past, Present & Future Division Outstanding Early Career Scientists Award 2021.
Christopher C. Day
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,
OX1 3AN, Oxford, UK
Oliver Kost
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006
Zurich, Switzerland
Micah Wilhelm
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research,
Zürcherstrasse 111, 8903 Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Negar Haghipour
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006
Zurich, Switzerland
Laboratory for Ion Beam Physics, ETH Zurich, Otto-Stern-Weg 5, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Gideon M. Henderson
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, South Parks Road,
OX1 3AN, Oxford, UK
Heather M. Stoll
Department of Earth Sciences, ETH Zurich, Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006
Zurich, Switzerland
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Soil respiration is a critical but poorly constrained component of the global carbon cycle. We analyse the effect of changing soil respiration rates on the stable carbon isotope ratio of speleothems from northern Spain covering the last deglaciation. Using geochemical analysis and forward modelling we quantify the processes affecting speleothem stable carbon isotope ratios and extract a signature of increasing soil respiration synchronous with deglacial warming.
Soil respiration is a critical but poorly constrained component of the global carbon cycle. We...
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