Growing evidence suggests that climate classification facilitates the identification of zones that either agree or disagree with processes explaining soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence. Already forty years ago, Post et al. (1982) posited that the strict temperature and precipitation‐based classification defining the Holdridge Life Zones (HLZ) provides a descriptive tool to guide our understanding of the heterogeneous distribution of global SOC stocks. Here we argue that this classification has the potential for describing SOC persistence by linking top‐down and bottom‐up approaches from different scales, which allows selection of individual regional relevancies necessary to manage and track the fate of our largest terrestrial carbon (C) reservoir.

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旧工具的新用途：在土壤碳持久性研究中恢复Holdridge生命区

越来越多的证据表明，气候分类有助于确定与解释土壤有机碳（SOC）持久性的过程一致或不同的区域。Post等人已经有40年了。（1982年）认为，严格的基于温度和降水的分类定义了Holdridge生命区（HLZ），提供了一种描述性工具，可以指导我们对全球SOC存量的异质分布的理解。在这里，我们认为，这种分类有可能通过将不同规模的自上而下和自下而上的方法联系起来来描述SOC的持久性，从而可以选择管理和跟踪我们最大的陆地碳（C）储层命运的必要区域个体。 。