Estimation of annual CO2 efflux of moss biocrust through measuring and simulating its respiration rate in a semiarid climate

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114560

	Estimation of annual CO2 efflux of moss biocrust through measuring and simulating its respiration rate in a semiarid climate
	Yao, Xiaomeng 1,2; Bowker, Matthew A.3; Xiao, Bo 1,2
刊名	GEODERMA
	2020-10-15
卷号	376 页码:13
关键词	Biological soil crust Soil carbon efflux Soil carbon storage Soil moisture Soil temperature Chinese Loess Plateau
ISSN号	0016-7061
DOI	10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114560
通讯作者	Xiao, Bo(xiaobo@cau.edu.cn)
英文摘要	Biocrust is a potentially extensive living cover in drylands, which comprises much of the land surface, but presently its contribution to the soil respiration rate (R-s) and CO2 efflux is still not clearly understood. In this study, we continuously measured the R-s of moss-dominated biocrust (biocrust and biocrust covered soil) and bare soil, together with soil temperature and moisture, for similar to 100 days each in a semiarid climate on the Chinese Loess Plateau. We modeled R-s across a two-year period, based on its relationship with soil temperature and moisture. Using the model, the seasonal variation of the R-s was simulated for biocrust and bare soil, and their annual CO2 efflux were further estimated. We also obtained samples of the biocrust layer and bare soil surface and analyzed their physicochemical properties and enzyme activities to explain the biocrust effects on R-s. Our results showed that the measured Rs of the biocrust and bare soil ranged from 0.05 to 7.62 and 0.02-2.73 limo' M-2 s(-1), respectively, and was closely exponentially related to the dynamics of soil temperature and moisture (in threshold relationships). The variations of R-s in both the biocrust and bare soil were strongly predicted in a regression model by R-2 >= 0.50 and P < 0.001. Through this model, we simulated the seasonal variations of R-s, which averaged 1.03 +/- 0.01 and 0.54 +/- 0.01 mu mol M-2 s(-1) (F = 225.51, P < 0.001) across all seasons for the biocrust and bare soil, respectively. We further estimated that the annual CO2-C efflux through respiration of the biocrust was 390 g m(-2) yr(-1) and that of the bare soil was 203 g m(-2) yr(-1), indicating that the presence of the biocrust layer annually contributed 91.8% (187 g m(-2) yr(-1)) more soil respiration in comparison to the bare soil. Moreover, the main correlates with R-s shifted from largely abiotic, e.g. soil texture and total phosphorus content, in bare soils to biotic, e.g. indicators of carbon and nitrogen content, in biocrust soils. This finding implies that the contribution of the biocrust to R-s is linked to the carbon fixed and organic nutrients stored in the biocrust layer. In conclusion, moss-dominated biocrust highly accelerates soil respiration and increases gross soil CO2 efflux, possibly through regulating soil temperature and moisture, improving soil physicochemical properties, increasing soil enzyme activities, and accelerating decomposition of biocrust-fixed and -stored carbon.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41671221] ; China Scholarship Council[201906355019] ; Light of West China Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[2019] ; National Science Foundation's Dimensions of Biodiversity Program[1638966]
WOS关键词	BIOLOGICAL SOIL CRUSTS ; ENZYME-ACTIVITIES ; LOESS PLATEAU ; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY ; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENCE ; MICROBIAL BIOMASS ; REVEGETATED AREAS ; LAND-USE ; CARBON ; WATER
WOS研究方向	Agriculture
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER
WOS记录号	WOS:000558138300021
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; China Scholarship Council ; Light of West China Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Science Foundation's Dimensions of Biodiversity Program
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.igsnrr.ac.cn/handle/311030/158120]
专题	中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所
通讯作者	Xiao, Bo
作者单位	1.China Agr Univ, Coll Land Sci & Technol, 2 Yuanmingyuan West Rd, Beijing 100193, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci & Minist Water Resources, Inst Soil & Water Conservat, State Key Lab Soil Eros & Dryland Farming Loess P, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 3.No Arizona Univ, Sch Forestry, Flagstaff, AZ 86011 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yao, Xiaomeng,Bowker, Matthew A.,Xiao, Bo. Estimation of annual CO2 efflux of moss biocrust through measuring and simulating its respiration rate in a semiarid climate[J]. GEODERMA,2020,376:13.
APA	Yao, Xiaomeng,Bowker, Matthew A.,&Xiao, Bo.(2020).Estimation of annual CO2 efflux of moss biocrust through measuring and simulating its respiration rate in a semiarid climate.GEODERMA,376,13.
MLA	Yao, Xiaomeng,et al."Estimation of annual CO2 efflux of moss biocrust through measuring and simulating its respiration rate in a semiarid climate".GEODERMA 376(2020):13.