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Fire promotes functional plant diversity and modifies soil carbon dynamics in tropical savanna

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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
卷 812, 期 -, 页码 -

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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152317

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Carbon dynamics; Functional diversity; Above and belowground interactions; Fire-prone ecosystems; Neotropical savanna; Resilience

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  1. National Geographic Society [NGS 51903C-18]
  2. Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo [FAPESP 2015/06743-0]
  3. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico [CNPq 141715/2018-9, CNPq 303988/2018-5]
  4. Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Research Award Program (DDRA 2019-2020)

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Fire is an important environmental factor in tropical savanna ecosystems, influencing functional diversity, carbon pools, and fluxes. The study found that fire promoted biomass increase, improved functional diversity, and had varying effects on carbon balance. However, the specific role of functional diversity and ecosystem structure in mediating the impact of fire on ecosystem functions needs further investigation.
Fire is an evolutionary environmental filter in tropical savanna ecosystems altering functional diversity and associated C pools in the biosphere and fluxes between the atmosphere and biosphere. Therefore, alterations in fire regimes (e.g. fire exclusion) will strongly influence ecosystem processes and associated dynamics. In those ecosystems C dynamics and functions are underestimated by the fire-induced offset between C output and input. To determine how fire shapes ecosystem C pools and fluxes in an open savanna across recently burned and fire excluded areas, we measured the following metrics: (I) plant diversity including taxonomic (i.e. richness, evenness) and plant functional diversity (i.e. functional diversity, functional richness, functional dispersion and community weighted means); (II) structure (i.e. aboveand below-ground biomass, litter accumulation); and (III) functions related to C balance (i.e. net ecosystem carbon dioxide (CO2) exchange (NEE), ecosystem transpiration (ET), soil respiration (soil CO2 efflux), ecosystem water use efficiency (eWUE) and total soil organic C (SOC). We found that fire promoted aboveground live and belowground biomass, including belowground organs, coarse and fine root biomass and contributed to higher biomass allocation belowground. Fire also increased both functional diversity and dispersion. NEE and total SOC were higher in burned plots compared to fire-excluded plots whereas soil respiration recorded lower values in burned areas. Both ET and eWUE were not affected by fire. Fire strongly favored functional diversity, fine root and belowground organ biomass in piecewise SEM models but the role of both functional diversity and ecosystem structure to mediate the effect of fire on ecosystem functions remain unclear. Fire regime will impact C balance, and fire exclusion may lead to lower C input in open savanna ecosystems.

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