Effect of Stocking Rate on Soil-Atmosphere CH4 Flux during Spring Freeze-Thaw Cycles in a Northern Desert Steppe, China 英文参考文献.docVIP

EffectofStockingRateonSoil-AtmosphereCH4Flux duringSpringFreeze-ThawCyclesinaNorthernDesert Steppe,China Cheng-JieWang1*.,Shi-MingTang1.,AndreasWilkes2,Yuan-YuanJiang1,Guo-DongHan1, DingHuang3. 1CollegeofEcologyandEnvironmentalScience,InnerMongoliaAgriculturalUniversity,Huhhot,China,2WorldAgroforestryCentre,12Zhongguancun,Beijing,China, 3InstituteofGrasslandScience,ChinaAgriculturalUniversity,Beijing,China Abstract Background: Methane (CH4) uptake by steppe soils is affected by a range of specific factors and is a complex process. Increasedstockingratepromotessteppedegradation,withunclearconsequencesforgasexchanges.Toassesstheeffects ofgrazingmanagementonCH4uptakeindesertsteppes,weinvestigatedsoil-atmosphereCH4exchangeduringthewinter- springtransitionperiod. Methodology/Main Finding: The experiment was conducted at twelve grazing plots denoting four treatments defined alongagrazinggradientwiththreereplications:non-grazing(0sheep/ha,NG),lightgrazing(0.75sheep/ha,LG),moderate grazing (1.50 sheep/ha, MG) and heavy grazing (2.25 sheep/ha, HG). Using an automatic cavity ring-down spectrophotometer,wemeasuredCH4fluxesfromMarch1toApril29in2010andMarch2toApril27in2011.According tothestatusofsoilfreeze-thawcycles(positiveandnegativesoiltemperaturesoccurredinalternation),theexperimentwas dividedintoperiodsIandII.ResultsindicatethatmeanCH4uptakeinperiodI(7.51mgCH4–Cm22h21)wassignificantly lowerthanuptakeinperiodII(83.07mgCH4–Cm 22 21 ).Averagedover2years,CH4fluxesduringthefreeze-thawperiod (NG),288.76mgCH4–Cm22h21(LG),264.77mgCH4–Cm22h21(MG)and228.80m h were284.76mgCH4–Cm 22 21 h g 22 21 CH4–Cm h (HG). Conclusions/Significance:CH4uptakeactivityisaffectedbyfreeze-thawcyclesandstockingrates.CH4uptakeiscorrelated with the moisture content and temperature of soil. MG and HG decreases CH4 uptake while LG exerts a considerable positiveimpactonCH4uptakeduringspringfreeze-thawcyclesinthenortherndesertsteppeinChina. Citation:WangC-J,TangS-M,WilkesA,JiangY-Y,HanG-D,etal.(2012)E