期刊
SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 75, 期 -, 页码 113-123出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.soilbio.2014.04.013
关键词
Microbial respiration; Root respiration; Nitrogen addition; Soil respiration; Q(10); Loess Plateau
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资金
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB138703]
- Strategic Priority Research Program - Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Related Issues of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA05050406-8]
- Key Science and Technology Projects of Gansu Province [1203FKDA035]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31070412, 31201837]
Nitrogen (N) deposition to semiarid ecosystems is increasing globally, yet few studies have investigated the ecological consequences of N enrichment in these ecosystems. Furthermore, soil CO2 flux - including plant root and microbial respiration - is a key feedback to ecosystem carbon (C) cycling that links ecosystem processes to climate, yet few studies have investigated the effects of N enrichment on belowground processes in water-limited ecosystems. In this study, we conducted two-level N addition experiments to investigate the effects of N enrichment on microbial and root respiration in a grassland ecosystem on the Loess Plateau in northwestern China. Two years of high N additions (9.2 g N m(-2) y(-1)) significantly increased soil CO2 flux, including both microbial and root respiration, particularly during the warm growing season. Low N additions (2.3 g N m(-2) y(-1)) increased microbial respiration during the growing season only, but had no significant effects on root respiration. The annual temperature coefficients (Q(10)) of soil respiration and microbial respiration ranged from 1.86 to 3.00 and 1.86 to 2.72 respectively, and there was a significant decrease in Q(10) between the control and the N treatments during the non-growing season but no difference was found during the growing season. Following nitrogen additions, elevated rates of root respiration were significantly and positively related to root N concentrations and biomass, while elevated rates of microbial respiration were related to soil microbial biomass C (SMBC). The microbial respiration tended to respond more sensitively to N addition, while the root respiration did not have similar response. The different mechanisms of N addition impacts on soil respiration and its components and their sensitivity to temperature identified in this study may facilitate the simulation and prediction of C cycling and storage in semiarid grasslands under future scenarios of global change. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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