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The warming effect of the flare of natural gas on soil biological activity |
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Ilya Yevdokimov, Irek Yusupov, Sergey Shavnin |
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EGU General Assembly 2017
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en
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In: GRA - Volume 19 (2017) |
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250141825
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| Publikation (Nr.) |
 EGU/EGU2017-5371.pdf |
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| Zusammenfassung |
| Simulation of global warming is one of the key issues of international efforts to study climatic changes. A number of manipulation experiments with soil warming have been established throughout the world in the last decades. We used warming with natural gas flare near the pine forest as a kind of manipulation experiment to assess the synergistic effect of drying and warming on plant-soil-microbial interactions.
The experimental area is situated in a pine forest subzone of the forest zone of the Western Siberia near Pokachi, Yugra (61о73′N, 75о49′E). The experimental plots were established in a young Scotch pine forest on sandy podzolic soil at three distances of 70, 90 and 130 m from the flare of natural gas, with trees exposed to strong (S) moderate (M), and weak (W) impact, respectively. Increase of soil temperature in summer time were moderate: on average 0.7oC and 1.3oC for the plots M and S, respectively, compared to the plot W. The plot S demonstrated increase in CO2 efflux from the soil surface, mainly due to intensifying plant root respiration, by 18% compared to the plot W as well as increase in SOM content by 31%, with intensive accumulation of recalcitrant humus. By contrast, microbial biomass, labile SOM pool and basal respiration were higher in soil with weak flaring impact by 74%, 33% and 24%, respectively. Thus, three trends in plant-soil-microbe system exposed to warming and drying were revealed: i) SOM accumulation, ii) suppression of microbial activity, and iii) stimulation of root respiration.
The research was supported by the Russian Science Foundation and Russian Foundation for Basic Researches. |
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