Effects of Precipitation Increase on Soil Respiration A Three-Year Field Experiment in Subtropical Forests in China 英文参考文献.docVIP

EffectsofPrecipitationIncreaseonSoilRespiration:A Three-YearFieldExperimentinSubtropicalForestsin China QiDeng1,2,DafengHui3*,DeqiangZhang1,GuoyiZhou1,JuxiuLiu1,ShizhongLiu1,GuoweiChu1, JiongLi1 1SouthChinaBotanicalGarden,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Guangzhou,China,2WuhanBotanicalGarden,ChineseAcademyofSciences,Wuhan,China,3Department ofBiologicalSciences,TennesseeStateUniversity,Nashville,Tennessee,UnitedStatesofAmerica Abstract Background:Theaimofthisstudywastodetermineresponsepatternsandmechanismsofsoilrespirationtoprecipitation increasesinsubtropicalregions. Methodology/PrincipalFindings:Fieldplotsinthreetypicalforests[i.e.pineforest(PF),broadleafforest(BF),andpineand broadleaf mixed forest (MF)] in subtropical China were exposed under either Double Precipitation (DP) treatment or Ambient Precipitation (AP). Soilrespiration, soil temperature, soilmoisture, soilmicrobial biomass and fine rootbiomass weremeasuredoverthreeyears.Wetestedwhetherprecipitationtreatmentsinfluencedtherelationshipofsoilrespiration rate(R)withsoiltemperature(T)andsoilmoisture(M)usingR=(a+cM)exp(bT),whereaisaparameterrelatedtobasalsoil respiration;bandcareparametersrelatedtothesoiltemperatureandmoisturesensitivitiesofsoilrespiration,respectively. We found that the DP treatment only slightly increased mean annual soil respiration in the PF (15.4%) and did not significantly change soil respiration in the MF and the BF. In the BF, the increase in soil respiration was related to the enhancementsofbothsoilfinerootbiomassandmicrobialbiomass.TheDPtreatmentdidnotchangemodelparameters, but increased soil moisture, resulting in a slight increase in soil respiration. In the MF and the BF, the DP treatment decreased soil temperature sensitivity b but increased basal soil respiration a, resulting in no significant change in soil respiration. Conclusion/Significance:OurresultsindicatethatprecipitationincreasinginsubtropicalregionsinChinamayhavelimited effectsonsoilrespiration. Citation:DengQ,HuiD,ZhangD,Z