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Soil respiration in an irrigated oasis agroecosystem: linking environmental controls with plant activities on hourly, daily and monthly timescales

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Aim

To investigate the responses of different components of soil respiration to environmental factors at different timescales in a vineyard ecosystem.

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The trenching method was used to separate total soil respiration (TSR) into autotrophic respiration (AR) and heterotrophic respiration (HR). Soil respiration rates were measured by an LI-8100 automated flux system.

Results

On the hourly scale, there were contrasting responses in TSR, HR and AR to soil temperature at 5 cm (ST5), with clockwise hysteresis loop responses of TSR and HR to ST5 but a counterclockwise hysteresis loop between AR and ST5. The daily TSR didn’t exponentially response to ST5 during the growing season. On the monthly scale, the relationship between TSR and ST5 showed a counterclockwise hysteresis loop. Meanwhile, the diel respiration peak lagged the peak of gross primary productivity (GPP), but the monthly peak of TSR preceded the monthly peak of GPP. The daily TSR and the daily soil water content at 5 cm (SWC5) in different months showed a quadratic relationship, but there was an exponential correlation between the monthly TSR and the monthly SWC5.

Conclusions

The relationship between soil respiration and environmental factors derived for a specific timescale cannot be directly applied to other timescales.

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This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (grants 41871078 and 41571016), National Key R&D Program of China (2018YFC0406602), and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (lzujbky-2017-it87). We also thank Weiyong Zhang for the instrument maintenance of the site.

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Ma, T., Zhu, G., Ma, J. et al. Soil respiration in an irrigated oasis agroecosystem: linking environmental controls with plant activities on hourly, daily and monthly timescales. Plant Soil 447, 347–364 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-019-04354-w

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