Effects of light-felling on non-growing season greenhouse gas emission from soils in Korean pine forests in Maoer Mountains, China.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201807.028

Abstract

Abstract: Non-growing season soil greenhouse gas emission may play an important role in the forest ecosystem carbon and nitrogen cycle. However, it is not clear about the effects of the cutting distur-bance on soil greenhouse gas emissions during non-growing season. The CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O fluxes and related environmental factors (soil temperature, water content, carbon and nitrogen, etc.) were monitored in the Korean pine plantation (fifty year-old) under different light-felling manners (control, no cutting; the half light-felling, cutting 50% of broad-leaved trees in canopy; the whole light-felling, cutting 100% of broad-leaved trees in canopy), using static chamber technique and gas chromatography during non-growing season in Maoer Mountains of China. The main aim was to reveal the influence of cutting disturbance on soil greenhouse gases emission during non-growing season and its controlling factors. The results showed that the whole and half light-felling manners significantly decreased CO₂emission flux by 21.0% and 22.8%, and N₂O by 23.5% and 11.2%, and decreased CH₄uptake by 16.0% and 16.4%. The contribution of non-growing season CO₂, CH₄ and N₂O emission to annual total was 11.7%-14.2%, 13.1%-17.0% and 63.9%-72.6%, respectively. Light-felling manners decreased annual cumulative contribution of CO₂ by 1.4%-2.5%, that of CH₄ by 0.7%-3.9%, but increased that of N₂O by 2.4%-8.7%. Furthermore, light-felling increased the correlations of soil CO₂ fluxes with soil temperature, soil water content, nitrate and ammonium, and decreased its correlation with soil organic carbon content. Light-felling increased the correlations of soil CH₄ flux with soil water content, soil pH, soil organic carbon, ammonium, and decreased its correlation with nitrate. Light-felling increased the correlations between soil N₂O flux and soil temperature, decreased the correlations with nitrate and ammonium, and changed the positive correlation with soil pH to negative. Therefore, light-felling had significant effects on the emission fluxes of the greenhouse gas during non-growing season, with the whole light-felling decreased more soil N₂O emission flux than the half light-felling.

ZHANG Yue, MU Chang-cheng, LIU Hui, JING Li-jie. Effects of light-felling on non-growing season greenhouse gas emission from soils in Korean pine forests in Maoer Mountains, China.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2018, 29(7): 2183-2194.

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