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cje ›› 2004, Vol. ›› Issue (5): 24-29.

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Important factors controlling CO2 emission rates from forest soil

WANG Miao1, HAN Shijie1, WANG Yuesi2   

  1. 1. Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China;
    2. Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2003-12-24 Revised:2004-03-29 Online:2004-10-10

Abstract: The soil CO2 emission fluxes in two treatments in the broad-leaved & Korean pine (Pinus koreansis) forest of Changbai Mountain were evaluated with closed static chamber technique. The results showed that there were similarly seasonal variation trends for soil CO2 emission rates in soil and litter-free soil. The maximum soil CO2 emission was in July and the minimum was in February. In summer the peak for diurnal CO2 emission occurred at 14:00~18:00 p.m. Effects of 11 environmental factors on soil CO2 emission fluxes were examined by multivariate analysis of variance. Results showed that soil CO2 emission rate was positively correlated to the temperature at 0 cm depth and soil moisture at 20 cm depth in the broad-leaved & Korean pine forest. The annual soil respiration amount was estimated as 3911 g CO2· m-2·ya-1 for soil with litters and 2804 g CO2·m-2·yr-1 for litter-free soil respectively. CO2 emission amounting from the litters accounted for 28% of total soil CO2 emission.

Key words: Ecosystem, Flux, Micrometeorological method, Chamber method

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