Forest Soil Respirations are More Sensitive to Nighttime Temperature Change in Eastern China

Authors

  • Zhaoyong SHI Henan University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province (CN)
  • Ke LI Henan University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province (CN)
  • Yongming WANG Henan University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province (CN)
  • Bede S. MICKAN The University of Western Australia, The UWA Institute of Agriculture, LB 500 WA 6001 (AU)
  • Weikang YUAN Henan University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province
  • Yan YANG Henan University of Science and Technology, College of Agriculture, Luoyang 471003, Henan Province

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha47111322

Keywords:

explanatory rate, forest, Q10, soil respiration, temperature

Abstract

Soil respiration is one of the main fluxes in the global carbon cycle. The effect of temperature on soil respiration is well understood. The response of soil respiration to temperature warming is called apparent temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration, which is an important parameter in modeling soil CO2 effluxes under global climate warming. The difference of Q10 between daytime and nighttime was hardly reported although attentions are attracted by the differences of temperature change and its effects on vegetation productivity. In this study, we investigated the Q10 of soil respiration in daytime and nighttime by modeling empirical functions based on the in situ measurement of soil respiration and temperature in temperate and subtropical forests of eastern China. Our results showed that the Q10 of soil respiration is higher in nighttime with the mean value of 2.74 and 2.35 than daytime with the average of 2.49 and 2.18 in all measured months and growing season, respectively. Moreover, the explanatory rate of soil temperature to soil respiration in nighttime is also higher than in daytime in each site in both all measured and growing seasons. The Q10 and explanatory rate of soil temperature to soil respiration in nighttime is 1.08 and 1.15 times in daytime in growing season. These findings indicate that soil respiration has a bigger sensitivity to temperature in nighttime than daytime. The change of soil temperature explains more variation of soil respiration in nighttime than daytime.

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2018-10-04

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SHI, Z., LI, K., WANG, Y., MICKAN, B. S., YUAN, W., & YANG, Y. (2018). Forest Soil Respirations are More Sensitive to Nighttime Temperature Change in Eastern China. Notulae Botanicae Horti Agrobotanici Cluj-Napoca, 47(1), 249–254. https://doi.org/10.15835/nbha47111322

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DOI: 10.15835/nbha47111322