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Forest thinning and soil respiration in a ponderosa pine plantation in the Sierra Nevada 总被引：8，自引：0，他引：8
Soil respiration is controlled by soil temperature, soil water, fine roots, microbial activity, and soil physical and chemical properties. Forest thinning changes soil temperature, soil water content, and root density and activity, and thus changes soil respiration. We measured soil respiration monthly and soil temperature and volumetric soil water continuously in a young ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex P. Laws. & C. Laws.) plantation in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California from June 1998 to May 2000 (before a thinning that removed 30% of the biomass), and from May to December 2001 (after thinning). Thinning increased the spatial homogeneity of soil temperature and respiration. We conducted a multivariate analysis with two independent variables of soil temperature and water and a categorical variable representing the thinning event to simulate soil respiration and assess the effect of thinning. Thinning did not change the sensitivity of soil respiration to temperature or to water, but decreased total soil respiration by 13% at a given temperature and water content. This decrease in soil respiration was likely associated with the decrease in root density after thinning. With a model driven by continuous soil temperature and water time series, we estimated that total soil respiration was 948, 949 and 831 g C m(-2) year(-1) in the years 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively. Although thinning reduced soil respiration at a given temperature and water content, because of natural climate variability and the thinning effect on soil temperature and water, actual cumulative soil respiration showed no clear trend following thinning. We conclude that the effect of forest thinning on soil respiration is the combined result of a decrease in root respiration, an increase in soil organic matter, and changes in soil temperature and water due to both thinning and interannual climate variability. 相似文献
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Soil N mineralization is affected by microbial biomass and respiration, which are limited by available C and N. To examine
the relationship between C and N for soil microbial dynamics and N dynamics, we conducted long-term laboratory incubation
(150 days) after C and N amendment and measured changes in C and N mineralization, microbial biomass C, and dissolved C and
N throughout the incubation period. The study soil was volcanic immature soil from the southern part of Japan, which contains
lower C and N compared with other Japanese forest soils. Despite this, the area is covered by well-developed natural and plantation
forests. Carbon amendment resulted in an increase in both microbial biomass and respiration, and net N mineralization decreased,
probably due to increasing microbial immobilization. In contrast, N amendment resulted in a decrease in microbial respiration
and an increase in net N mineralization, possibly due to decreased immobilization by microbes. Amendment of both C and N simultaneously
did not affect microbial biomass and respiration, although net N mineralization was slightly increased. The results suggested
that inhibitory effect on microbial respiration by N amendment should be reduced if carbon availability is higher. Thus, soil
available C may limit microbial biomass and respiration in this volcanic immature soil. Even in immature soil where C and
N substrate is low, soil C, such as plant root exudates and materials from above- and belowground dead organisms, might help
to maintain microbial activity and N mineralization in this study site. 相似文献
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The effect of thinning on microbial biomass C, N and basal respiration in black pine forest soils in Mudurnu, Turkey 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
İlyas Bolat 《European Journal of Forest Research》2014,133(1):131-139
Reducing the canopy cover (e.g., forest thinning) is one of the most commonly employed forest silvicultural treatments. Trees are partially removed from a forest in order to manage tree competition, thus favoring the remaining and often the most valuable trees. The properties of the soil are affected by forest thinning as a result of changes in key microclimatic conditions, microbial communities and biomass, root density, nutrient budgets and organic matter turnover. The aim of this study was to determine the soil microbial biomass C, N and respiration (basal respiration) in a black pine (Pinus nigra Arn. subsp. pallasiana) forest in the Mudurnu district of Bolu Province (Western Black Sea Region, Turkey). Whereas forest thinning was found to cause increases in the soil temperature, microbial biomass C and N and organic C, it was found to decrease the soil moisture, basal respiration and metabolic quotient (qCO2). As expected, soil organic C exhibited a strong impact on soil microbial biomass C, N and basal respiration. It was concluded that the influence of forest thinning on the microbial biomass and soil respiration was the combined result of changing microclimatic conditions and soil properties, such as forest litter, soil temperature, soil moisture, soil pH and soil organic matter. 相似文献
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Vast areas of ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Dougl. ex Laws.) forest in the western United States have become unnaturally dense because of relatively recent land management practices that include fire suppression and livestock grazing. In many areas, thinning treatments can re-establish the natural ecological processes and help restore ecosystem structure and function. Precipitous global climate change has focused attention on the carbon storage in forests. An unintended consequence of fire suppression has been the increased storage of carbon in ponderosa stands. Thinning treatments reduce standing carbon stocks while releasing carbon through the combustion of fuel in logging machinery, burning slash, and the decay of logging slash and wood products. These reductions and releases of stored carbon must be compared to the risk of catastrophic fire burning through the stand and releasing large quantities of carbon to the atmosphere to more fully understand the costs and benefits – in carbon terms – of forest restoration strategies. 相似文献
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Soil and microbial respiration in a loblolly pine plantation in response to seven years of irrigation and fertilization 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Lisa Samuelson Reji Mathew Tom Stokes Yucheng Feng Doug Aubrey Mark Coleman 《Forest Ecology and Management》2009,258(11):2431-2438
Because soil CO2 efflux or soil respiration (RS) is the major component of forest carbon fluxes, the effects of forest management on RS and microbial biomass carbon (C), microbial respiration (RH), microbial activity and fine root biomass were studied over two years in a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation located near Aiken, SC. Stands were six-years-old at the beginning of the study and were subjected to irrigation (no irrigation versus irrigation) and fertilization (no fertilization versus fertilization) treatments since planting. Soil respiration ranged from 2 to 6 μmol m−2 s−1 and was strongly and linearly related to soil temperature. Soil moisture and C inputs to the soil (coarse woody debris and litter mass) which may influence RH were significantly but only weakly related to RS. No interaction effects between irrigation and fertilization were observed for RS and microbial variables. Irrigation increased RS, fine root mass and microbial biomass C. In contrast, fertilization increased RH, microbial biomass C and microbial activity but reduced fine root biomass and had no influence on RS. Predicted annual soil C efflux ranged from 8.8 to 10.7 Mg C ha−1 year−1 and was lower than net primary productivity (NPP) in all stands except the non-fertilized treatment. The influence of forest management on RS was small or insignificant relative to biomass accumulation suggesting that NPP controls the transition between a carbon source and sink in rapidly growing pine systems. 相似文献
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Vegetation recovery is a key measure to improve ecosystems in the Loess Plateau in China. To understand the evolution of soil
microorganisms in forest plantations in the hilly areas of the Loess Plateau, the soil microbial biomass, microbial respiration
and physical and chemical properties of the soil of Robinia pseudoacacia plantations were studied. In this study, eight forest soils of different age classes were used to study the evolution of
soil microbial biomass, while a farmland and a native forest community of Platycladus orientalis L. were chosen as controls. By measuring soil microbial biomass, metabolic quotient, and physical and chemical properties,
it can be concluded that soil quality was improved steadily after planting. Soil microbial biomass of C, N and P (SMBC, SMBN
and SMBP) increased significantly after 10 to 15 years of afforestation and vegetation recovery. A relatively stable state
of soil microbial biomass was maintained in near-mature or mature plantations. There was an increase of soil microbial biomass
appearing at the end of the mature stage. After 50 years of afforestation and vegetation recovery, compared with those in
farmland, the soil microbial biomass of C, N and P increased by 213%, 201% and 83% respectively, but only accounting for 51%,
55% and 61% of the increase in P. orientalis forest. Microbial soil respiration was enhanced in the early stages, and then weakened in the later stage after restoration,
which was different from the change of soil organic carbon. The metabolic quotient (qCO2) was significantly higher in the soils of the P. orientalis forest than that in farmland at the early restoration stage and then decreased rapidly. After 25 years of afforestation and
vegetation recovery, qCO2 in soils of the R. pseudoacacia forest was lower than that in the farmland soil, and reached a minimum after 50 years, which was close to that of the P. orientalis forest. A significant relationship was found among soil microbial biomass, qCO2 and physical and chemical properties and restoration duration. Therefore, we conclude that it is possible to artificially
improve the ecological environment and soil quality in the hilly area of the Loess Plateau; a long time, even more than 100
years, is needed to reach the climax of the present natural forest.
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Translated from Acta Ecologica Sinica, 2007, 27(3): 909–917 [译自: 生态学报] 相似文献
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《Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research》2012,27(6):470-488
The main objective of this case study was to explore the possible influence of forest management on the levels and distribution of biomass and carbon (C) in even-aged stands of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] in Denmark. Data originated from a long-term thinning experiment and an adjacent spacing experiment at stand ages of 58 and 41 years, respectively. Biomass of 16 trees from different thinning and spacing treatments was measured or partly estimated, and soils were sampled for determination of C stocks. All trees in each plot were measured for stem diameter and some for total height, to allow for scaling-up results to stand-level estimates. For trees of similar size, foliage biomass tended to be higher in the spacing experiment, which was located on slightly more fertile land. Foliage biomass increased with increasing thinning grade, but the effect could not be separated from that of tree size. At stand level, foliage biomass tended to increase with increasing spacing as well as with increasing thinning grade. For branchwood, stems and roots (including below-ground stump), the biomass increased with increasing tree size and stand volume at tree and stand level, respectively, but no differences between stands, spacings or thinning grades were observed, apart from that expressed by tree size or stand volume. At stand level, C stocks of all biomass compartments decreased with increasing thinning grade, while the distribution between compartments was hardly influenced. The ratio between above-ground and stem biomass was about 1.21 at stand level, while the ratio between below- and above-ground biomass was about 0.17. Thinning influenced the C stock of the forest floor and mineral soil oppositely, resulting in no effect of thinning on total soil C. 相似文献
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Seasonal variation of soil respiration rates in a secondary forest and agroforestry systems 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
Kikang Bae Don Koo Lee Timothy J. Fahey Soo Young Woo Amos K. Quaye Yong-Kwon Lee 《Agroforestry Systems》2013,87(1):131-139
Agroforestry systems are widely practiced in tropical forests to recover degraded and deforested areas and also to balance the global carbon budget. However, our understanding of difference in soil respiration rates between agroforestry and natural forest systems is very limited. This study compared the seasonal variations in soil respiration rates in relation to fine root biomass, microbial biomass, and soil organic carbon between a secondary forest and two agroforestry systems dominated by Gmelina arborea and Dipterocarps in the Philippines during the dry and the wet seasons. The secondary forest had significantly higher (p < 0.05) soil respiration rate, fine root biomass and soil organic matter than the agroforestry systems in the dry season. However, in the wet season, soil respiration and soil organic matter in the G. arborea dominated agroforestry system were as high as in the secondary forest. Whereas soil respiration was generally higher in the wet than in the dry season, there were no differences in fine root biomass, microbial biomass and soil organic matter between the two seasons. Soil respiration rate correlated positively and significantly with fine root biomass, microbial biomass, and soil organic C in all three sites. The results of this study indicate, to some degree, that different land use management practices have different effects on fine root biomass, microbial biomass and soil organic C which may affect soil respiration as well. Therefore, when introducing agroforestry system, a proper choice of species and management techniques which are similar to natural forest is recommended. 相似文献
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《Forest Ecology and Management》2004,196(1):57-70
Forest stands at the Harvard Forest, Petersham, MA, receiving experimentally elevated N inputs have shown greatly increased N leaching loss yet still retain over 70% of the added N in soils, presumably in organic form. Whether microbial or abiotic mechanisms are responsible for the high N retention is not well understood. We monitored soil respiration and extractable NH4-N and NO3-N following monthly applications of NH4NO3 to a hardwood forest and a pine plantation during the fifth year of chronic fertilizer applications (15 g N as NH4NO3 m−2 per year). We hypothesized that individual N applications would increase short-term soil respiration (within 1 month) in previously unamended and N-limited soil, but that little or no increase would occur following N applications to chronically N-amended soils, assumed to be carbon-limited to some degree after 5 years of N additions. Short-term soil respiration did not increase after N additions in either the chronically amended or previously untreated soils except for one instance in the latter. However, extractable N levels in both previously unamended plots returned to pre-application levels within 2 weeks of the N addition. This rapid disappearance of the applied N suggests microbial immobilization, but in all but one instance there was no accompanying CO2 efflux increase indicating increased microbial biomass growth. A model of N immobilization through microbial biomass production, driven by the observed apparent net N immobilization, predicted soil CO2 efflux 4–17 times greater than measured rates. Microbial biomass production does not appear to be the mechanism by which the fertilizer N immobilization occurred, according to our assumptions about microbial C:N ratios and carbon use efficiency. Hardwood stand average soil respiration rates over the study period were significantly higher in the previously unamended plot than in the control, and the control and chronically N-treated plot respiration rates were similar. Soil respiration rates for all pine stand treatments were similar. These results are insufficient to support our hypotheses concerning carbon versus nitrogen limitation in these soils. Our results, along with evidence from other studies, suggest that abiotic mechanisms play a role in the high retention of long-term N additions in these soils. 相似文献
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中亚热带天然林改造成人工林后土壤呼吸的变化特征 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
【目的】研究中亚热带常绿阔叶林(天然林)改造成人工林后土壤碳排放量的变化及主要影响因子,为评估森林类型转换对土壤碳排放的影响提供科学依据。【方法】在福建农林大学西芹教学林场的常绿阔叶林及由其改造而来的38年生闽楠人工林与35年生杉木人工林中分别设置4块20 m×20 m样地,利用Li-8100土壤碳通量观测系统于2014年9月—2016年9月进行定点观测,并同期观测土壤温度、含水量、有机碳含量(SOC)、微生物生物量碳含量(MBC)、可溶性有机碳含量(DOC)、0～20 cm土层细根生物量和年凋落物量及凋落物碳氮比(C/N)。【结果】常绿阔叶林改造成闽楠(38年后)和杉木人工林(35年后),年均土壤碳排放通量由16. 22显著降为12. 71和4. 83 tC·hm-2a-1,分别减少21. 60%和70. 20%;各林分类型的土壤呼吸温度敏感性Q10值表现为常绿阔叶林(1. 97)<闽楠人工林(2. 03)<杉木人工林(2. 91),转换为杉木人工林后,Q10值显著升高(P<0. 05);土壤温度能分别解释常绿阔叶林、闽楠人工林与杉木人工林土壤呼吸速率变化的89. 70%、88. 50%和87. 90%,土壤呼吸速率和土壤含水量相关不显著(P>0. 05);土壤呼吸速率和SOC、MBC、DOC、年凋落物量及0～20 cm土层细根生物量均极显著正相关(P<0. 01);土壤呼吸温度敏感性指数Q10值和凋落物C/N极显著正相关(P<0. 01),而与年均土壤呼吸速率及MBC极显著负相关(P<0. 01);进一步分析发现土壤MBC和SOC含量是影响土壤呼吸速率的2个最重要因子,而凋落物C/N在影响土壤呼吸温度敏感性中的贡献最大。【结论】中亚热带地区常绿阔叶林改造成闽楠(38年)或杉木(35年)人工林后,土壤碳排放通量显著降低。林分类型转换后树种组成和林分结构发生改变,凋落物数量、质量及细根生物量显著降低,土壤SOC和MBC含量显著下降可共同导致土壤呼吸通量的下降。土壤温度是3种林分类型土壤呼吸季节变化的主导因素,而土壤总有机碳库和土壤微生物量碳库的差异是不同林分之间土壤呼吸差异的主导因素,凋落物C/N对土壤呼吸的Q10影响最大。为提高模型预测森林类型转换影响土壤碳排放的精度,应综合考虑土壤有机碳库、易变性有机碳库及底物质量的变化。 相似文献
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Differences in the weight and nutrient content of the litterfall collected at monthly intervals, and in some chemical andphysical soil properties, have been studied in the replicatedthinning plots of 45-year-old Norway spruce (Picea abies Karst.)at Bowmont Forest, Roxburghshire. The B grade thinning is unusuallylight, and results in increased litter fall and accumulationof organic matter in the forest floor, but differences in litterfall between the heavier grades are small due to changes incrown development. Thinning greatly increases the rate of breakdownofthe forest floor and the amount of nutrients available per tree. The soil under the B grade thinning contains more carbon, organicphosphorus, and availablecalcium, but differences in more readilyavailable forms of phosphorus and in available cations, otherthan calcium, are not significant. Leaching of potassium fromthe surface soil is more intense under the B grade thinning.Of the physical properties studied, only the aggregation ofthe silt and clay is significantly affected by thinning, theheavier grades leading to a reduction in micro-aggregate stability. 相似文献
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笔者分析了川西米亚罗林区典型低效林经不同强度的抚育间伐后,对5种处理的2个土层(0 cm~15 cm,15 cm~30 cm)的土壤总有机碳、微生物量碳含量的变化进行了动态监测,并分析了土壤总有机碳和微生物量碳含量的季节变化。结果表明,5种处理的土壤总有机碳和微生物量碳含量均是上层高于下层;在观测的4个季节内,上层、下层土壤总有机碳均是夏季春季冬季秋季,土壤总有机碳含量的上、下层均值是F3F2F1F4CK;土壤微生物量碳含量均是秋季冬季春季夏季;土壤微生物量碳含量的上、下层均值表现为F3F2F1CKF4,而且30%的间伐强度样地土壤总有机碳含量和微生物量碳含量均最高。 相似文献
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G.W.W. Wamelink H.J.J. Wieggers G.J. Reinds J. Kros J.P. Mol-Dijkstra M. van Oijen W. de Vries 《Forest Ecology and Management》2009
Changes in the Earth's atmosphere are expected to influence the growth, and therefore, carbon accumulation of European forests. We identify three major changes: (1) a rise in carbon dioxide concentration, (2) climate change, resulting in higher temperatures and changes in precipitation and (3) a decrease in nitrogen deposition. We adjusted and applied the hydrological model Watbal, the soil model SMART2 and the vegetation model SUMO2 to asses the effect of expected changes in the period 1990 up to 2070 on the carbon accumulation in trees and soils of 166 European forest plots. The models were parameterized using measured soil and vegetation parameters and site-specific changes in temperature, precipitation and nitrogen deposition. The carbon dioxide concentration was assumed to rise uniformly across Europe. The results were compared to a reference scenario consisting of a constant CO2 concentration and deposition scenario. The temperature and precipitation scenario was a repetition of the period between 1960 and 1990. All scenarios were compared to the reference scenario for biomass growth and carbon sequestration for both the soil and the trees. 相似文献
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Land-use changes can modify soil carbon contents. Depending on the rate of soil organic matter (SOM) formation and decomposition, soil-vegetation systems can be a source or sink of CO2. The objective of this study was to determine the influence of land-use change on SOM distribution, and microbial biomass and respiration in an Andisol of the Chilean Patagonia. Treatments consisted of degraded natural prairie (DNP), thinned and pruned Pinus ponderosa plantations (PPP), and unmanaged second-growth Nothofagus pumilio forest (NPF). The soil was classified as medial, amorphic, mesic Typic Hapludands. Soil microbial respiration and microbial biomass were determined in the laboratory from soil samples taken at 0–5, 5–10, 10–20 and 20–40 cm depths obtained from three pits excavated in each treatment. Physical fractionation of SOM was performed in soil of the upper 40 cm of each treatment to obtain the three following aggregate-size classes: macroaggregates (>212 μm), mesoaggregates (212–53 μm) and microaggregates (<53 μm). Plant C content was 68% higher in PPP than in DNP and 635% higher in NPF than in PPP. Total soil and vegetation C content in both DNP and PPP were less than half of that in NPF. Total SOC at 0–10 cm depth decreased in the order DNP (7.82%) > NPF (6.16%) > PPP (4.41%), showing that land-use practices affected significantly (P < 0.01) SOC stocks. In all treatments, microbial biomass C and respiration were significantly higher (P < 0.05) in the upper 5 cm. Soil microbial respiration was also correlated positively with microbial biomass C and SOC. The different land uses affect the formation of organic matter, SOC and microbial biomass C, which in turn will affect soil microbial respiration. Conversion of DNP to PPP resulted in a 44% decrease of SOC stocks in 0–10 cm mineral soil. The largest amount of SOC was stabilized within the mesoaggregate fraction of the less disturbed system, NPF, followed by PPP. In the long term, formation of stable mesoaggregates in soils protected from erosion can behave as C sinks. 相似文献
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The objectives of the study were to investigate mineral soil profiles as a living space for microbial decomposers and the relation of microbial properties to soil acidity. We estimated microbial biomass C on concentration (g g–1 DW) as well as on volume basis (g m–2) and the microbial biomass C to soil organic C ratio along a vertical gradient from L horizon to 20 cm in the mineral soil and along a gradient of increasing acidity at five beech forest stands in Germany. Microbial biomass C concentration ranged from 17,000–34,000 g Cmic g–1 DW in the litter layer and decreased dramatically down the profile to 29–264 g Cmic g–1 DW at 15–20 cm depth in the mineral soil. This represents depth gradients of microbial biomass C concentrations ranging from a factor of 65 in slightly acidic and up to 875 in acidic soils. In contrast, microbial biomass C calculated on a volume basis (g Cmic m–2) showed a different pattern since a considerable part of the microbial biomass C was located in the mineral soils. In the soil profile 22–34% of the microbial biomass C was found in the mineral soil at strictly acidic sites and as much as 64–88% in slightly acidic soils. The microbial biomass C to soil organic carbon ratios decreased in general down from the L horizon in the forest floor to 0–5 cm depth in the mineral soils. In strongly acidic mineral soils however, the C to soil organic carbon ratio increased with depth, suggesting a positive relation to increasing pH. We conclude from depth gradients of soil pH and microbial biomass C to soil organic carbon ratio that pH affects this ratio at acidic sites. The inter-site comparison indicates that acidity restricts microbial biomass C in the mineral soils. 相似文献
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Giovanna Settineri Carmelo Mallamaci Miroslava Mitrović Maria Sidari Adele Muscolo 《European Journal of Forest Research》2018,137(2):131-141
This study investigated, in a Pinus laricio forest of south Italy, how systematic thinning of different intensities (intense thinning, T45; moderate thinning, T25; clear cut, CC; and no thinning, T0) affected soil biological properties, organic matter trend and carbon (C) storage in soil and plants. Soil carbon content and carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio were significantly higher in the T45 than in control, T25 and CC. Under T45, the soils had also the highest enzymatic activities, microbial biomass carbon (MBC) and colonies of fungi and bacteria. The humification parameters (humification ratio, HR; the degree of humification, DH; humification index, HI) indicated T45 as the best silvicultural practice-approach method to manage Pinus laricio forest for increasing soil carbon storage. The dendrometric parameters evidenced that T45 caused the greatest increment in wood growth (diameter and height), showing that the positive effect of the intense systematic thinning (T45) on the mechanical stability of plantation was related to the ability of trees to accumulate large amounts of carbon in their wood tissues. These data were confirmed by wood density value that was the highest in pine trees under the T45. This study showed that in Pinus laricio forest under T45 C stock increased in soil and plant, already 4 years after thinning. 相似文献
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Charles E. Murphy 《Forest Ecology and Management》1985,11(3):203-224
The exchange of materials between the atmosphere and terrestrial ecosystems is important to an understanding of the cycling of essential elements, the deposition of materials from the atmosphere and the entrance of pollutants into the forest ecosystems. This paper reports the results of measurements of carbon dioxide exchange in a vigorously growing pine plantation. Measurement data were incorporated into a model used to estimate annual carbon dioxide exchange. The measured annual biomass accumulation in the same plantation was used to determine a carbon dioxide to biomass conversion efficiency. Carbon dioxide exchange was 10.5 t/ha and biomass accumulation was 4.5 t/ha. The conversion efficiency of carbon dioxide to biomass is about 25% less than the theoretical chemical conversion efficiency. Considering the possible errors in both the estimates, this is very good agreement. 相似文献
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Yumei Zhou Shijie Han Junqiang Zheng Lihua Xin Haisen Zhang 《Frontiers of Forestry in China》2008,3(2):131-138
The two main components of soil respiration, i.e., root/rhizosphere and microbial respiration, respond differently to elevated
atmospheric CO2 concentrations both in mechanism and sensitivity because they have different substrates derived from plant and soil organic
matter, respectively. To model the carbon cycle and predict the carbon source/sink of forest ecosystems, we must first understand
the relative contributions of root/rhizosphere and microbial respiration to total soil respiration under elevated CO2 concentrations. Root/rhizosphere and soil microbial respiration have been shown to increase, decrease and remain unchanged
under elevated CO2 concentrations. A significantly positive relationship between root biomass and root/rhizosphere respiration has been found.
Fine roots respond more strongly to elevated CO2 concentrations than coarse roots. Evidence suggests that soil microbial respiration is highly variable and uncertain under
elevated CO2 concentrations. Microbial biomass and activity are related or unrelated to rates of microbial respiration. Because substrate
availability drives microbial metabolism in soils, it is likely that much of the variability in microbial respiration results
from differences in the response of root growth to elevated CO2 concentrations and subsequent changes in substrate production. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting soil respiration were
found to affect both root/rhizosphere and microbial respiration.
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Translated from Journal of Plant Ecology, 2007, 31(3): 386–393 [译自: 植物生态学报] 相似文献