Journal
AGRICULTURAL AND FOREST METEOROLOGY
Volume 247, Issue -, Pages 1-11Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.agrformet.2017.07.006
Keywords
Soil CO2 emission; Soil microbial; Root; Soil structure & stoichiometry; Stable isotope carbon; Dry land
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41201258, 41411140035, 41671511]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [SWU116087, XDJK20178013, SWU114108, XDJK20158021]
- New Star Foundation on Shaanxi Province Youth Science and Technology [2016 KJXX-89]
- FYJSPS Invitation Fellowship [L-15558]
- JSPS-KAKENHI [15H05113]
- JSPS-NSFC
- Arid Land Research Center, Tottori University
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [15H05113, 15H04617] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Soil respiration is a dynamic and fundamental process across all terrestrial ecosystems. However, how physical and biogeochemical factors control seasonal variation and annual rates of soil respiration remains poorly understood. A topographical gradient in a semiarid forest was chosen as the study site to assess how both biogeochemical and physical factors control respiration rates. Parameters measured include soil respiration, litterfall, fine root biomass, soil physical and chemical properties, soil bacteria and archaea gene abundance, ectomycorrhizal fungi abundance and richness, and soil carbon isotope signatures. The results showed that increases in soil temperature and moisture exponentially and linearly promoted root activity, driving seasonal variation of total soil respiration. Seasonal variation of heterotrophic respiration was driven by soil moisture in a second-order polynomial pattern. Autotrophic respiration only contributed to 20% of the total soil respiration, and seasonal variation in the soil respiration rate was driven by heterotrophic respiration. Utilizing soil moisture as a scalar, the values of Q(10) and R-10 in different poisons on the slope indicated soil respiration was controlled by interaction of soil temperature and moisture, and a new transformation of the R-10 function inducing soil moisture was proposed. Along the topographical gradient, the long-term average soil temperature and moisture significantly varied from the top to the bottom of a slope. This variation in physical processes induced differences in plant productivity and biomass accumulation, leading to varying organic matter accumulation across the gradient. The topographical position also induced differences in the size of the soil organic matter aggregates, archaea and bacteria gene abundances, and ectomycorrhizal fungi abundance and richness. The aforementioned parameters are interrelated due to their association with the long-term average soil temperature and moisture, and the interrelation of these parameters ultimately affects annual rates of soil respiration.
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