Aboveground and belowground contributions to ecosystem respiration in a temperate deciduous forest

Liu, Xiuping; Dong, Wenxu; Wood, Jeffrey D.; Wang, Yuying; Li, Xiaoxin; Zhang, Yuming; Hu, Chunsheng; Gu, Lianhong

doi:10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108807

Aboveground and belowground contributions to ecosystem respiration in a temperate deciduous forest

Journal Article · Sat Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2022 · Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108807· OSTI ID:1883963

Liu, Xiuping ^[1]; Dong, Wenxu ^[1]; Wood, Jeffrey D. ^[2]; Wang, Yuying ^[1]; Li, Xiaoxin ^[1]; Zhang, Yuming ^[1]; Hu, Chunsheng ^[1]; ^[3]

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang (China)
Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

In this study, we developed a three-way carbon dioxide (CO₂) flux-partitioning algorithm that separates net ecosystem exchange (NEE) into aboveground plant respiration (R_above), belowground root and soil respiration (R_below), and gross primary production (GPP). We applied this algorithm to a coupled dataset of continuous chamber-measured soil respiration and eddy covariance (EC)-measured NEE of CO₂ in an oak-hickory (Quercus-Carya) deciduous broadleaf forest from 2006 to 2015. We found that on annual time scale, R_below dominated over R_above with the former accounting for 66.9–86.4% and the latter 13.6–33.1%, of the total ecosystem respiration (R_eco). The ratio of R_below to R_above varied seasonally, ranging from 1.77 to 7.25 in growing season, and 1.02 to 4.57 in non-growing season. The temperature sensitivity (E₀) of R_below was significantly higher than that of R_above, and E₀ of R_eco responded differently to air and soil temperature. Over the whole study period, annual mean R_above, R_below, and GPP were 243, 806, and 1170 g C m^–2, respectively, with annual R_eco accounting for 89.6% of GPP, of which 68.8% was lost as R_below and 20.8% lost as R_above, and leaving only 10% of the carbon fixation in ecosystems. Furthermore, these estimates, however, did not consider potential light inhibition of leaf respiration. If we accept the presence of light inhibition, then the daytime three-way partitioning method would underestimate annual R_above by 20.4% whereas the nighttime method would overestimate R_above by 23.9% and GPP by 4.7%, compared with estimates accounting for light inhibition in leaves.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1883963

Journal Information:: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, Journal Name: Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 314; ISSN 0168-1923

Publisher:: ElsevierCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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