SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature

Lembrechts, Jonas J.; Aalto, Juha; Ashcroft, Michael B.; De Frenne, Pieter; Kopecký, Martin; Lenoir, Jonathan; Luoto, Miska; Maclean, Ilya M.D.; Roupsard, Olivier; Fuentes‐Lillo, Eduardo; García, Rafael A.; Pellissier, Loïc; Pitteloud, Camille; Alatalo, Juha M.; Smith, Stuart W.; Björk, Robert G.; Muffler, Lena; Ratier Backes, Amanda; Cesarz, Simone; Gottschall, Felix; Okello, Joseph; Urban, Josef; Plichta, Roman; Svátek, Martin; Phartyal, Shyam S.; Wipf, Sonja; Eisenhauer, Nico; Pușcaș, Mihai; Turtureanu, Pavel D.; Varlagin, Andrej; Dimarco, Romina D.; Jump, Alistair S.; Randall, Krystal; Dorrepaal, Ellen; Larson, Keith; Walz, Josefine; Vitale, Luca; Svoboda, Miroslav; Finger Higgens, Rebecca; Halbritter, Aud H.; Curasi, Salvatore R.; Klupar, Ian; Koontz, Austin; Pearse, William D.; Simpson, Elizabeth; Stemkovski, Michael; Jessen Graae, Bente; Vedel Sørensen, Mia; Høye, Toke T.; Fernández Calzado, M. Rosa; Lorite, Juan; Carbognani, Michele; Tomaselli, Marcello; Forte, T'ai G.W.; Petraglia, Alessandro; Haesen, Stef; Somers, Ben; Van Meerbeek, Koenraad; Björkman, Mats P.; Hylander, Kristoffer; Merinero, Sonia; Gharun, Mana; Buchmann, Nina; Dolezal, Jiri; Matula, Radim; Thomas, Andrew D.; Bailey, Joseph J.; Ghosn, Dany; Kazakis, George; de Pablo, Miguel A.; Kemppinen, Julia; Niittynen, Pekka; Rew, Lisa; Seipel, Tim; Larson, Christian; Speed, James D.M.; Ardö, Jonas; Cannone, Nicoletta; Guglielmin, Mauro; Malfasi, Francesco; Bader, Maaike Y.; Canessa, Rafaella; Stanisci, Angela; Kreyling, Juergen; Schmeddes, Jonas; Teuber, Laurenz; Aschero, Valeria; Čiliak, Marek; Máliš, František; De Smedt, Pallieter; Govaert, Sanne; Meeussen, Camille; Vangansbeke, Pieter; Gigauri, Khatuna; Lamprecht, Andrea; Pauli, Harald; Steinbauer, Klaus; Winkler, Manuela; Ueyama, Masahito; Nuñez, Martin A.; Ursu, Tudor‐Mihai; Haider, Sylvia; Wedegärtner, Ronja E.M.; Smiljanic, Marko; Trouillier, Mario; Wilmking, Martin; Altman, Jan; Brůna, Josef; Hederová, Lucia; Macek, Martin; Man, Matěj; Wild, Jan; Vittoz, Pascal; Pärtel, Meelis; Barančok, Peter; Kanka, Róbert; Kollár, Jozef; Palaj, Andrej; Barros, Agustina; Mazzolari, Ana C.; Bauters, Marijn; Boeckx, Pascal; Benito Alonso, José‐Luis; Zong, Shengwei; Di Cecco, Valter; Sitková, Zuzana; Tielbörger, Katja; van den Brink, Liesbeth; Weigel, Robert; Homeier, Jürgen; Dahlberg, C. Johan; Medinets, Sergiy; Medinets, Volodymyr; De Boeck, Hans J.; Portillo‐Estrada, Miguel; Verryckt, Lore T.; Milbau, Ann; Daskalova, Gergana N.; Thomas, Haydn J.D.; Myers‐Smith, Isla H.; Blonder, Benjamin; Stephan, Jörg G.; Descombes, Patrice; Zellweger, Florian; Frei, Esther R.; Heinesch, Bernard; Andrews, Christopher ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2428-272X; Dick, Jan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4180-9338; Siebicke, Lukas; Rocha, Adrian; Senior, Rebecca A.; Rixen, Christian; Jimenez, Juan J.; Boike, Julia; Pauchard, Aníbal; Scholten, Thomas; Scheffers, Brett; Klinges, David; Basham, Edmund W.; Zhang, Jian; Zhang, Zhaochen; Géron, Charly; Fazlioglu, Fatih; Candan, Onur; Sallo Bravo, Jhonatan; Hrbacek, Filip; Laska, Kamil; Cremonese, Edoardo; Haase, Peter; Moyano, Fernando E.; Rossi, Christian; Nijs, Ivan. 2020 SoilTemp: a global database of near‐surface temperature. Global Change Biology, 26 (11). 6616-6629. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

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Abstract/Summary

Current analyses and predictions of spatially explicit patterns and processes in ecology most often rely on climate data interpolated from standardized weather stations. This interpolated climate data represents long‐term average thermal conditions at coarse spatial resolutions only. Hence, many climate‐forcing factors that operate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions are overlooked. This is particularly important in relation to effects of observation height (e.g. vegetation, snow and soil characteristics) and in habitats varying in their exposure to radiation, moisture and wind (e.g. topography, radiative forcing or cold‐air pooling). Since organisms living close to the ground relate more strongly to these microclimatic conditions than to free‐air temperatures, microclimatic ground and near‐surface data are needed to provide realistic forecasts of the fate of such organisms under anthropogenic climate change, as well as of the functioning of the ecosystems they live in. To fill this critical gap, we highlight a call for temperature time series submissions to SoilTemp, a geospatial database initiative compiling soil and near‐surface temperature data from all over the world. Currently, this database contains time series from 7,538 temperature sensors from 51 countries across all key biomes. The database will pave the way toward an improved global understanding of microclimate and bridge the gap between the available climate data and the climate at fine spatiotemporal resolutions relevant to most organisms and ecosystem processes.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	1354-1013
Additional Keywords:	climate change, database, ecosystem processes, microclimate, soil climate, species distributions, temperature, topoclimate
NORA Subject Terms:	Agriculture and Soil Science
Date made live:	08 Jul 2020 15:18 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/528122

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.15123

UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:

Biodiversity (Science Area 2017-)

ISSN:

1354-1013

Additional Keywords:

climate change, database, ecosystem processes, microclimate, soil climate, species distributions, temperature, topoclimate

NORA Subject Terms:

Agriculture and Soil Science