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Effects of soil temperature and moisture on methane uptake and nitrous oxide emissions across three different ecosystem types |
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G. J. Luo, R. Kiese, B. Wolf, K. Butterbach-Bahl |
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Englisch
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1726-4170
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In: Biogeosciences ; 10, no. 5 ; Nr. 10, no. 5 (2013-05-13), S.3205-3219 |
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250018247
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 copernicus.org/bg-10-3205-2013.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
In this paper, we investigate similarities of effects of soil environmental
drivers on year-round daily soil fluxes of nitrous oxide and methane for
three distinct semi-natural or natural ecosystems: temperate spruce forest,
Germany; tropical rain forest, Queensland, Australia; and ungrazed semi-arid
steppe, Inner Mongolia, China. Annual cumulative fluxes of nitrous oxide and
methane varied markedly among ecosystems, with nitrous oxide fluxes being
highest for the tropical forest site (tropical forest: 0.96 kg N ha−1 yr−1;
temperate forest: 0.67 kg N ha−1 yr−1; steppe: 0.22 kg N ha−1 yr−1), while rates of soil methane uptake were
approximately equal for the temperate forest (−3.45 kg C ha−1 yr−1) and the steppe (−3.39 kg C ha−1 yr−1), but lower for
the tropical forest site (−2.38 kg C ha−1 yr−1).
In order to allow for cross-site comparison of effects of changes in soil
moisture and soil temperature on fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide, we
used a normalization approach. Data analysis with normalized data revealed
that, across sites, optimum rates of methane uptake are found at
environmental conditions representing approximately average site
environmental conditions. This might have rather important implications for
understanding effects of climate change on soil methane uptake potential,
since any shift in environmental conditions is likely to result in a
reduction of soil methane uptake ability. For nitrous oxide, our analysis
revealed expected patterns: highest nitrous oxide emissions under moist and
warm conditions and large nitrous oxide fluxes if soils are exposed to
freeze–thawing effects at sufficiently high soil moisture contents. However,
the explanatory power of relationships of soil moisture or soil temperature
to nitrous oxide fluxes remained rather poor (R2 ≤ 0.36). When
combined effects of changes in soil moisture and soil temperature were
considered, the explanatory power of our empirical relationships with regard
to temporal variations in nitrous oxide fluxes were at maximum about 50%.
This indicates that other controlling factors such as N and C availability
or microbial community dynamics might exert a significant control on the
temporal dynamic of nitrous oxide fluxes. Though underlying microbial
processes such as nitrification and denitrification are sensitive to changes
in the environmental regulating factors, important regulating factors like
moisture and temperature seem to have both synergistic and antagonistic
effects on the status of other regulating factors. Thus we cannot expect a
simple relationship between them and the pattern in the rate of emissions,
associated with denitrification or nitrification in the soils.
In conclusion, we hypothesize that our approach of data generalization may
prove beneficial for the development of environmental response models, which
can be used across sites, and which are needed to help achieve a better understanding
of climate change feedbacks on biospheric sinks or sources of nitrous oxide and
methane. |
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