Understanding the response of soil respiration to global warming in agro-ecosystem is crucial for simulating terrestrial carbon(C) cycle.We conducted an infrared warming experiment under conventional tillage(CT) and no-tillage(NT) farmland for winter wheat and summer maize rotation system in North China Plain(NCP).Treatments include CT with and without warming(CTW and CTN),NT with and without warming(NTW and NTN).The results indicated that warming had no significant effect on soil moisture in irrigated farmland of NCP(P>0.05).The elevated average soil temperature of 1.1-1.6°C in crop growing periods could increase annual soil CO_2 emission by 10.3%in CT filed(P>0.05),but significantly increase it by 12.7%in NT field(P<0.05),respectively.The disturbances such as plowing,irrigation and precipitation resulted in the obvious soil CO_2 emission peaks,which contributed 36.6-40.8%of annual soil cumulative CO_2 emission.Warming would enhance these soil CO_2 emission peaks;it might be associated with the warming-induced increase of autotrophic respiration and heterotrophic respiration.Compared with un-warming treatments,dissolved organic carbon(DOC) and soil microbial biomass carbon(MBC) in warming treatments were significantly increased by 11.6-23.4 and 12.9-23.6%,respectively,indicating that the positive responses of DOC and MBC to warming in both of two tillage systems.Our study highlights that climate warming may have positive effects on soil C release in NCP in association with response of labile C substrate to warming.
TU ChunLI Fa-dongQIAO Yun-fengZHU NongGU Cong-keZHAO Xin
Understanding the effects of warming on greenhouse gas(GHG, such as N_2O, CH_4 and CO_2 )feedbacks to climate change represents the major environmental issue. However, little information is available on how warming effects on GHG fluxes in farmland of North China Plain(NCP). An infrared warming simulation experiment was used to assess the responses of N_2O, CH_4 and CO_2 to warming in wheat season of 2012–2014 from conventional tillage(CT) and no-tillage(NT) systems. The results showed that warming increased cumulative N_2O emission by 7.7% in CT but decreased it by 9.7% in NT fields(p < 0.05). Cumulative CH_4 uptake and CO_2 emission were increased by 28.7%–51.7% and 6.3%–15.9% in both two tillage systems,respectively(p < 0.05). The stepwise regressions relationship between GHG fluxes and soil temperature and soil moisture indicated that the supply soil moisture due to irrigation and precipitation would enhance the positive warming effects on GHG fluxes in two wheat seasons.However, in 2013, the long-term drought stress due to infrared warming and less precipitation decreased N_2O and CO_2 emission in warmed treatments. In contrast, warming during this time increased CH_4 emission from deep soil depth. Across two years wheat seasons, warming significantly decreased by 30.3% and 63.9% sustained-flux global warming potential(SGWP) of N_2O and CH_4 expressed as CO_2 equivalent in CT and NT fields, respectively. However, increase in soil CO_2 emission indicated that future warming projection might provide positive feedback between soil C release and global warming in NCP.
Soil respiration from decomposing aboveground litter is a major component of the terrestrial carbon cycle.However,variations in the contribution of aboveground litter to the total soil respiration for stands of varying ages are poorly understood.To assess soil respiration induced by aboveground litter,treatments of litter and no litter were applied to 5-,10-,and 20-year-old stands of Populus davidiana Dode in the sandstorm source area of Beijing -Tianjin,China.Optimal nonlinear equations were applied to model the combined effects of soil temperature and soil water content on soil respiration.Results showed that the monthly average contribution of aboveground litter to total soil respiration were 18.46% ± 4.63%,16.64% ± 9.31%,and 22.37% ± 8.17% for 5-,10-,and 20-year-old stands,respectively.The relatively high contribution in 5-and 20-year-old stands could be attributed to easily decomposition products and high accumulated litter,respectively.Also,it fluctuated monthly for all stand ages due to substrate availability caused by phenology and environmental factors.Litter removal significantly decreased soil respiration and soil water content for all stand ages(p < 0.05) but not soil temperature(p > 0.05).Variations of soil respiration could be explained by soil temperature at 5-cm depth using an exponential equation and by soil water content at 10-cm depth using a quadratic equation,whereas soil respiration was better modeled using the combined parameters of soil temperature and soil water content than with either soil temperature or soil water content alone.Temperature sensitivity(Q_(10))increased with stand age in both the litter and the no litter treatments.Considering the effects of aboveground litter,this study provides insights for predicting future soil carbon fluxes and for accurately assessing soil carbon budgets.
