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Forest soil respiration rate and d13C is regulated by recent above ground weather conditions
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- Ekblad, Alf (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskap
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- Boström, Björn (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskap
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- Holm, Anders (author)
- Örebro universitet,Institutionen för naturvetenskap
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- 2004-12-01
- 2005
- English.
- In: Oecologia. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 0029-8549 .- 1432-1939. ; 143:1, s. 136-142
- Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Soil respiration, a key component of the global carbon cycle, is a major source of uncertainty when estimating terrestrial carbon budgets at ecosystem and higher levels. Rates of soil and root respiration are assumed to be dependent on soil temperature and soil moisture yet these factors often barely explain half the seasonal variation in soil respiration. We here found that soil moisture (range 16.5-27.6% of dry weight) and soil temperature (range 8-17.5 degrees C) together explained 55% of the variance (cross-validated explained variance; Q2) in soil respiration rate (range 1.0-3.4 micromol C m(-2) s(-1)) in a Norway spruce (Picea abies) forest. We hypothesised that this was due to that the two components of soil respiration, root respiration and decomposition, are governed by different factors. We therefore applied PLS (partial least squares regression) multivariate modelling in which we, together with below ground temperature and soil moisture, used the recent above ground air temperature and air humidity (vapour pressure deficit, VPD) conditions as x-variables. We found that air temperature and VPD data collected 1-4 days before respiration measurements explained 86% of the seasonal variation in the rate of soil respiration. The addition of soil moisture and soil temperature to the PLS-models increased the Q2 to 93%. delta13C analysis of soil respiration supported the hypotheses that there was a fast flux of photosynthates to root respiration and a dependence on recent above ground weather conditions. Taken together, our results suggest that shoot activities the preceding 1-6 days influence, to a large degree, the rate of root and soil respiration. We propose this above ground influence on soil respiration to be proportionally largest in the middle of the growing season and in situations when there is large day-to-day shifts in the above ground weather conditions. During such conditions soil temperature may not exert the major control on root respiration.
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- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Medicinsk bioteknologi -- Biomaterialvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Medical Biotechnology -- Biomaterials Science (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Kemi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Chemical Sciences (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap -- Miljövetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Earth and Related Environmental Sciences -- Environmental Sciences (hsv//eng)
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- Air temperature
- 13C
- PLS time series analysis
- Root respiration
- Soil temperature
- Biomaterials
- Biomaterial
- Chemistry
- Kemi
- Environmental chemistry
- Miljökemi
- Environmental Chemistry
- Miljökemi
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