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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SOIL SCIENCE
Volume 67, Issue 6, Pages 773-781Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12386
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91325202, 41601063]
- National Key Scientific Research Project [2013CBA01802]
- Open Foundations of State Key Laboratory of Cryosphere Sciences [SKLCS-OP-2014-08]
- State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering [SKLFSE201408]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [lzujbky-2015-123]
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The temperature sensitivity coefficient (Q(10)) of soil organic matter decomposition is an important variable for global climate models. Permafrost regions contain large organic carbon pools. A deep core was taken in permafrost from the northern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) and exposed to increases in temperature below and above 0 degrees C. The production of CO2 was related to the soil organic carbon (SOC) contents and stable carbon isotopes. Smaller values of C-13-SOC and C-13-CO2 showed that the release of CO2 was primarily from soil with large SOC contents. The sensitivities of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition to temperature near to the permafrost table and in some permafrost layers were larger than those in other layers. In some layers, a temperature increase below 0 degrees C had a greater effect on the decomposition of SOM than one above 0 degrees C. The values of Q(10) in active layers varied from 2.7 to 23.0, with a mean of 8.8. The values of Q(10) were larger in the deeper layers; they varied from 1.6 to 49.4, with a mean of 20.8. This is because the degradation of permafrost is usually associated with an increase in temperature even when the soil is in a frozen state. Our results suggest that the large values of Q(10) at depth under frozen conditions merit more consideration of the response of SOC to climate warming in future research.
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