Quantifying the short-term dynamics of soil organic carbon decomposition using a power function model  

作　　者：Weiping Zhou Jinhong He Dafeng Hui Weijun Shen 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development in Agriculture,Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Beijing 100081,China [2]Key Laboratory for Agro-Environment,Ministry of Agriculture,Beijing 100081,China [3]Key laboratory of Vegetation Restoration and Management of Degraded Ecosystems,South China Botanical Garden,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Guangzhou 510650,China [4]University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [5]Department of Biological Sciences,Tennessee State University,Nashville,TN 37209,USA.

出　　处：《Ecological Processes》2017年第1期100-108,共9页生态过程（英文）

基　　金：This study was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31425005,31290222 and 31130011);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2016YFC1403001);Preparation of this manuscript was partially supported by the USDA Evans-Allen and CBG projects.

摘　　要：Introduction:Soil heterotrophic respiration(Rh,an indicator of soil organic carbon decomposition)is an important carbon efflux of terrestrial ecosystems.However,the dynamics of soil Rh and its empirical relations with climatic factors have not been well understood.Methods:We incubated soils of three subtropical forests at five temperatures(10,17,24,31,and 38°C)and five moistures(20,40,60,80,and 100%water holding capacity(WHC))over 90 days.Rh was measured throughout the course of the incubation.Three types of models(log-linear,exponential,and power model)were fitted to the measurements and evaluated based on the coefficient of determination(r2)and Akaike Information Criterion(AIC)of the model.Further regression analysis was used to derive the empirical relations between model parameters and the two climatic factors.Results:Among the three models,the power function model(Rh=R1 t−k)performed the best in fitting the descending trend of soil Rh with incubation time(r2>0.69 for 26 of 30 models).Both R1 and k generally increased linearly with soil temperature but varied quadratically with soil moisture in the three forest soils.Conclusions:This study demonstrated that the power function model was much more accurate than the exponential decay model in describing the decomposition dynamics of soil organic carbon(SOC)in mineral soils of subtropical forests.The empirical relations and parameter values derived from this incubation study may be incorporated into process-based ecosystem models to simulate Rh responses to climate changes.

关 键 词：Soil respiration Subtropical forest MOISTURE TEMPERATURE Power function Climate change 

分 类 号：S15[农业科学—土壤学]