https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2019-24 Preprint. Discussion started: 11 June 2019 c Author(s) 2019. CC BY 4.0 License. 1 Variations in soil chemical and physical properties explain 2 basin-wide variations in Amazon forest soil carbon 3 densities 4 5 Carlos Alberto Quesada1,*, Claudia Paz1,2, Erick Oblitas Mendoza1, Oliver Phillips3, 6 Gustavo Saiz4,5 and Jon Lloyd4,6,7 7 8 1Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Cx. Postal 2223 – CEP 69080-971, Brazil 9 2Universidade Estadual Paulista, Departamento de Ecologia, CEP 15506-900, Rio Claro, São Paulo. 10 3School of Geography, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK 11 4Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Buckhurst Road, Ascot, 12 Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK 13 5Department of Environmental Chemistry, Faculty of Sciences, Universidad Católica de la Santísima 14 Concepción, Concepción, Chile 15 6School of Tropical and Marine Sciences and Centre for Terrestrial Environmental and Sustainability 16 Sciences, James Cook University, Cairns, 4870, Queensland, Australia 17 7Universidade de São Paulo, Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto, Av Bandeirantes, 18 3900 , CEP 14040-901, Bairro Monte Alegre , Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil 19 20 *Correspondence to: Beto Quesada (
[email protected]) 21 22 1 https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-2019-24 Preprint. Discussion started: 11 June 2019 c Author(s) 2019. CC BY 4.0 License. 23 Abstract. 24 We investigate the edaphic, mineralogical and climatic controls of soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration 25 utilising data from 147 pristine forest soils sampled in eight different countries across the Amazon Basin.