SwePub
Sök i LIBRIS databas

  Extended search

onr:"swepub:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:64885dd9-7259-424a-9398-762e24860e8c"
 

Search: onr:"swepub:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:64885dd9-7259-424a-9398-762e24860e8c" > Geothermal ecosyste...

  • 1 of 1
  • Previous record
  • Next record
  •    To hitlist
  • Sigurdsson, Bjarni D.Agricultural University of Iceland (author)

Geothermal ecosystems as natural climate change experiments : The ForHot research site in Iceland as a case study

  • Article/chapterEnglish2016

Publisher, publication year, extent ...

  • 2016
  • 19 s.

Numbers

  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:lup.lub.lu.se:64885dd9-7259-424a-9398-762e24860e8c
  • https://lup.lub.lu.se/record/64885dd9-7259-424a-9398-762e24860e8cURI
  • https://doi.org/10.16886/IAS.2016.05DOI
  • https://res.slu.se/id/publ/79183URI

Supplementary language notes

  • Language:English
  • Summary in:English

Part of subdatabase

Classification

  • Subject category:art swepub-publicationtype
  • Subject category:ref swepub-contenttype

Notes

  • This article describes how natural geothermal soil temperature gradients in Iceland have been used to study terrestrial ecosystem responses to soil warming. The experimental approach was evaluated at three study sites in southern Iceland one grassland site that has been warm for at least 50 years (GO), and another comparable grassland site (GN) and a Sitka spruce plantation (FN) site that have both been warmed since an earthquake took place in 2008. Within each site type, five ca. 50 m long transects, with six permanent study plots each, were established across the soil warming gradients, spanning from unwarmed control conditions to gradually warmer soils. It was attempted to select the plots so the annual warming levels would be ca. +1, +3, +5, +10 and +20 °C within each transect. Results of continuous measurements of soil temperature (Ts) from 2013-2015 revealed that the soil warming was relatively constant and followed the seasonal Ts cycle of the unwarmed control plots. Volumetric water content in the top 5 cm of soil was repeatedly surveyed during 2013-2016. The grassland soils were wetter than the FN soils, but they had sometimes some significant warming-induced drying in the surface layer of the warmest plots, in contrast to FN. Soil chemistry did not show any indications that geothermal water had reached the root zone, but soil pH did increase somewhat with warming, which was probably linked to vegetation changes. As expected, the potential decomposition rate of organic matter increased significantly with warming. It was concluded that the natural geothermal gradients at the ForHot sites in Iceland offered realistic conditions for studying terrestrial ecosystem responses to warming with minimal artefacts.

Subject headings and genre

Added entries (persons, corporate bodies, meetings, titles ...)

  • Leblans, Niki I WUniversity of Antwerp,Agricultural University of Iceland (author)
  • Dauwe, StevenUniversity of Antwerp,Agricultural University of Iceland (author)
  • Gudmundsdóttir, ElínNortheast Iceland Nature Research Centre (author)
  • Gundersen, PerUniversity of Copenhagen (author)
  • Gunnarsdóttir, Gunnhildur E.Agricultural University of Iceland (author)
  • Holmstrup, MartinAarhus University (author)
  • Ilieva-Makulec, KrassimiraCardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw (author)
  • Kätterer, ThomasSveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Institutionen för ekologi,Department of Ecology(Swepub:slu)48437 (author)
  • Marteinsdóttir, BryndísUniversity of Iceland (author)
  • Maljanen, MarjaUniversity of Eastern Finland,Leiden University (author)
  • Oddsdóttir, Edda S.Icelandic Forest Research (author)
  • Ostonen, IvikaUniversity of Tartu (author)
  • Peñuelas, JosepCentre for Ecological Research and Forestry (CERAF) (author)
  • Poeplau, ChristopherJohann Heinrich von Thünen Institute,Thünen Institute (vTI)(Swepub:slu)100376 (author)
  • Richter, AndreasUniversity of Vienna (author)
  • Sigurdsson, PállAgricultural University of Iceland (author)
  • van Bodegom, Peter M.Leiden University (author)
  • Wallander, HåkanLund University,Lunds universitet,MEMEG,Biologiska institutionen,Naturvetenskapliga fakulteten,Department of Biology,Faculty of Science(Swepub:lu)mbek-hwa (author)
  • Weedon, JamesVrije Universiteit Amsterdam (author)
  • Janssens, Ivan A.University of Antwerp (author)
  • Agricultural University of IcelandUniversity of Antwerp (creator_code:org_t)
  • Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet

Related titles

  • In:Icelandic Agricultural Sciences29:1, s. 53-711670-567X

Internet link

Find in a library

To the university's database

  • 1 of 1
  • Previous record
  • Next record
  •    To hitlist

Kungliga biblioteket hanterar dina personuppgifter i enlighet med EU:s dataskyddsförordning (2018), GDPR. Läs mer om hur det funkar här.
Så här hanterar KB dina uppgifter vid användning av denna tjänst.

 
pil uppåt Close

Copy and save the link in order to return to this view