Changes in soil respiration components and their specific respiration along three successional forests in the subtropics

Han, Tianfeng; Liu, Juxiu; Wang, Gangsheng; Huang, Wenjuan; Zhou, Guoyi

doi:10.1111/1365-2435.12624

Title: Changes in soil respiration components and their specific respiration along three successional forests in the subtropics

Journal Article · Sat Jan 16 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Functional Ecology

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.12624· OSTI ID:1261539

Han, Tianfeng ^[1]; Liu, Juxiu ^[1]; Wang, Gangsheng ^[2]; Huang, Wenjuan ^[1]; Zhou, Guoyi ^[1]

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou (China)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

1.Understanding how soil respiration components change with forest succession is critical for modelling and predicting soil carbon (C) processes and its sequestration below-ground. The specific respiration (a ratio of respiration to biomass) is increasingly being used as an indicator of forest succession conceptually based on Odum's theory of ecosystem development. However, the hypothesis that specific soil respiration declines with forest succession remains largely untested. 2.We used a trenching method to partition soil respiration into heterotrophic respiration and autotrophic respiration (R_H and R_A) and then evaluated the specific R_H and specific R_A in three successional forests in subtropical China. 3.Our results showed a clear seasonality in the influence of forest succession on R_H, with no significant differences among the three forests in the dry season but a higher value in the old-growth forest than the other two forests in the wet season. R_A in the old-growth forest tended to be the highest among the three forests. Both the specific R_H and specific R_A decreased with the progressive maturity of three forests. 4.Lastly, our results highlight the importance of forest succession in determining the variation of R_H in different seasons. With forest succession, soil microbes and plant roots become more efficient to conserve C resources, which would result in a greater proportion of C retained in soils.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

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OSTI ID:: 1261539

Journal Information:: Functional Ecology, Journal Name: Functional Ecology; ISSN 0269-8463

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