Soil-Moisture-Dependent Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Respiration in a Poplar Plantation in Northern China
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Area
2.2. Sampling and Pretreatment
2.3. Analysis Methods
2.3.1. Soil Physical and Chemical Properties
2.3.2. Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon and Microbial Community Composition
2.3.3. Soil Water Retention Curve
2.3.4. Soil Respiration, Soil Temperature, and Moisture
2.4. Temperature Sensitivity of Rs
2.5. Data Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Soil Properties and Soil Water Retention Curve
3.2. Soil Respiration
3.3. Effects of Soil Moisture on Q10
3.4. Correlations of Q10 with Soil Properties and Microbial Characteristics in Response to Soil Moisture Variability
3.5. Effects of Soil Moisture, Soil Solid-Phase Properties, and Microbial Characteristics on Q10
4. Discussion
4.1. Changes in Q10 Vary with Soil Moisture
4.2. Variability of Influencing Factors on Q10 with Soil Moisture
5. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Soil Properties | pH | TN (g kg−1) | TP (g kg−1) | TK (g kg−1) | SOC (g kg−1) | Clay (%) | MBC (mg kg−1) | F:B | GP:GN | PLFAs (nmol g−1) |
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Mean | 6.97 | 0.45 | 0.68 | 17.67 | 15.76 | 3.99 | 166.18 | 0.35 | 0.66 | 20.88 |
SE | 0.06 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.85 | 0.58 | 0.14 | 5.13 | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.40 |
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He, H.; Zha, T.; Tan, J. Soil-Moisture-Dependent Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Respiration in a Poplar Plantation in Northern China. Forests 2024, 15, 1466. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15081466
He H, Zha T, Tan J. Soil-Moisture-Dependent Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Respiration in a Poplar Plantation in Northern China. Forests. 2024; 15(8):1466. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15081466
Chicago/Turabian StyleHe, Huan, Tonggang Zha, and Jiongrui Tan. 2024. "Soil-Moisture-Dependent Temperature Sensitivity of Soil Respiration in a Poplar Plantation in Northern China" Forests 15, no. 8: 1466. https://doi.org/10.3390/f15081466