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greenhouse gases; grasses; beans; soil bacteria; soil temperature; simulation models; gas exchange; equations; wheat; methane; oxidation; gas emissions; methanotrophs; microbial activity; oxygen; England
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... As part of a study to simulate plant responses to leaks from pipelines, we injected natural gas into soil at a depth of 1 m in plots of grass, wheat and beans. Measurements of oxygen and methane in soil exposed to gas show that oxygen is depleted significantly to values less than would be caused by simple displacement by natural gas, indicating consumption within the soil by methanotrophic bacteri ...
... The mineralization of the herbicide 3-(4-isopropylphenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea (isoproturon) was reduced after the dry and hot summer 2003 in a soil profile placed in a field lysimeter. A different isoproturon mineralization pattern remained in soil material taken at two different soil depths (0-5 cm and 15-20 cm), although soil material was re-equilibrated at adequate climatic conditions. Special soi ...
coniferous forests; crops; herbaceous plants; islands; land use change; soil formation; soil taxonomy; soil temperature; soil temperature regimes; summer; tropical montane cloud forests; vegetation cover; wind; woodlands; Canary Islands; Spain
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... Soil temperature influences both soil formation processes and land use possibilities, and is a classification criterion in some systems. Vegetation cover is one of the factors that affects temperature. In this paper, we estimate the classes of soil temperature regimes, using Soil Taxonomy, for Andosols located in parts of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, which are influenced by the t ...
... Organic upland soils store large amounts of humified organic matter. The mechanisms controlling the leaching of this C pool are not completely understood. To examine the effects of temperature and microbial cycling on C leaching, we incubated five unvegetated soil cores from a Podzol O horizon (from NE Scotland), over a simulated natural temperature cycle for 1 year, whilst maintaining a constant ...
atmospheric pressure; heat transfer; indigenous knowledge; soil pore system; soil sampling; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; temperature profiles; thermal conductivity; time domain reflectometry; vapors; water content; water distribution; water temperature
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... One of the best ways to evaluate the coupled heat and mass transfer in soil is to measure the heat flux and water distribution simultaneously. For this purpose, we developed an apparatus for measuring the one-dimensional steady-state heat flux and water distribution in unsaturated soil under reduced air pressure. The system was tested using four samples with known thermal conductivity (0.6-8.0 W m ...
... Information about soil VOC inventories and exchange rates in different soils is very scarce. Seasonality of soil VOC exchange rates is also largely unknown, despite the increasing interest in some soil volatile compounds, such as monoterpenes, because of their important role in soil ecology. We aimed to explore and quantify soil VOC exchange rates in a Mediterranean shrubland and their seasonality ...
... Peatlands are common in many parts of the world. Draining and other changes in the use of peatlands increase atmospheric CO₂ concentration. If we are to make reliable quantitative predictions of that effect, we need good information on the CO₂ emission rates from peatlands. The present study uses two different methods for predicting CO₂-C release of peatland soils: (i) a 40-year field investigatio ...
climate change; emissions; heat transfer; methane; peat; peatlands; rain; simulation models; soil temperature; soil transport processes; surface temperature
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... Methane emissions from northern peatlands are strongly dependent on soil temperatures. Therefore, to predict methane emissions from northern peatlands under future climatic conditions, it is important to simulate the effect of these changing climatic conditions on peat temperatures. This article reports on the development and testing of two one-dimensional (1D) models used to simulate soil tempera ...
... The knowledge on dynamics of soil microbial activity and its correlation to climate and vegetation is still poor but essential for predicting climatic changes scenarios. Seasonal dynamics of soil microbial activity and cell counts were studied along an arctic-alpine altitudinal gradient. The gradient comprised 12 ridges from 1000 to 1600 m altitude. Soil samples were collected during March, May, J ...
heat transfer; loess; mathematical models; plateaus; prediction; soil depth; soil quality; soil temperature; temperature profiles; thermal diffusivity; China
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... The force-restore method originally developed to enable soil temperature predictions assumes that soil is uniform with depth (i.e. the vertical gradient of thermal diffusivity is zero in soil) and that thermal conduction is the only heat transfer mechanism necessary for prediction of soil temperature. These assumptions hamper the applicability of the force-restore method to many natural soil condi ...
carbon dioxide; closed loop systems; soil temperature; soil water content; methodology; soil air; polyethylene; water temperature; soil profiles; disturbed soils
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... To better understand the factors controlling carbon dioxide (CO₂) production and transport in soil, we developed a new method to continuously monitor soil CO₂ concentration at multiple depths, by using diffusion chambers. The soil diffusion chambers are constructed from a high-density polyethylene cylindrical frame enclosed by a micro-polyvinylidene difluoride flat membrane (PVDF). All chambers ar ...
... Annual terrestrial balances of methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O) are presented for a managed fen meadow in the Netherlands for 2006, 2007 and 2008, using eddy covariance (EC) flux measurements. Annual emissions derived from different methods are compared. The most accurate annual CH₄ flux is achieved by gap filling EC fluxes with an empirical multivariate regression model, with soil temperatur ...
... Static chamber measurements of nitrous oxide (N₂O) and methane (CH₄) fluxes were made from five characteristic vegetation types, representing three different natural ecosystems (grasslands, deciduous forest and wetlands) in the Pannonian basin, Hungary. The main objective of the study was to determine the drivers of average seasonal, annual and interannual N₂O and CH₄ fluxes in these different eco ...
soil chemical properties; soil organic carbon; soil temperature; nitrogen; pastures; models; leaching; dissolved organic carbon; microbial activity; New Zealand
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... Leaching of dissolved organic matter (DOM) from pastoral soils is increasingly seen as an important but poorly understood process. This paper examined the relationship between soil chemical properties, microbial activity and the losses of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and nitrogen (DON) through leaching from six pasture soils. These soils differed in carbon (C) (4.6-14.9%) and nitrogen (N) (0.4-1 ...
... In order to estimate potential greenhouse gas flux rates from soils under different land use and climate, and to particularly assess the influence of soil temperature and soil moisture, we measured fluxes of nitrous oxide (N₂O), nitric oxide (NO), carbon dioxide (CO₂) and methane (CH₄) from intact soil cores obtained from 13 European sites under controlled laboratory conditions. The soils covered ...
... We investigated the magnitudes of temporal and spatial variabilities of gross ammonification and nitrification, in an N-saturated temperate forest ecosystem. Forest soil gross ammonification, gross nitrification and heterotrophic soil respiration were measured in the forest floor and uppermost mineral layer over a period of 3 years. Total annual gross fluxes for the organic layer and uppermost min ...
... Pedogenesis under aerobic conditions is usually associated with an increase in magnetic susceptibility (χ, mass-specific), which results from the formation of nano-sized magnetite and/or maghaemite. In this study, we systematically investigated the χ trend in Xeralfs from a chronosequence of 13 river terraces in an area with a Mediterranean climate in Spain. The soils in the younger terraces are w ...
greenhouse gases; plantations; sandy soils; soil temperature; trees; soil respiration; carbon dioxide; greenhouse gas emissions; soil air; woodlands; tropical grasslands; soil-atmosphere interactions; land use change; mineralization; Eucalyptus; climate change; soil water; land cover; risk reduction; nitrous oxide; woodland soils; clay soils; sewage; tillage; methane; deforestation; pH; gas chromatography; Zimbabwe
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... Land used for agricultural production can contribute significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions; however, there is very little information on the role of management and land use change in influencing these emissions in Africa. Thus, exploring GHG emissions that occur at the soil-atmosphere interface is an essential part of the effort to integrate land management strategies with climate change ...
carbon; carbon dioxide; cellulose; clay; global warming; kaolinite; lignin; models; montmorillonite; prediction; soil organic matter; soil temperature
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... Understanding the temperature sensitivity of soil organic matter (SOM) decomposition is important to predict the response of soil carbon (C) dynamics to projected global warming. There is no consensus, however, as to whether or not the decomposition of recalcitrant soil C is as sensitive to temperature as is that of labile soil C. Soil C is stabilized by three mechanisms: chemical recalcitrance, m ...
... Time domain reflectometry (TDR), while widely used to measure volumetric water content (θ) and bulk electrical conductivity (BEC) in unsaturated granular soils, remains less studied in peat than mineral soils. Empirical models commonly used in mineral soils are not applicable to peat for accurate determination of θ from measured apparent dielectric permittivity (ɛ). Past studies for peat report hi ...
climate models; frost; heat transfer; model validation; parameter uncertainty; physical models; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; soil water storage; uncertainty analysis; China
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... Soil heat and moisture processes are interconnected, especially during low temperatures. To examine the interaction between soil temperature and moisture under freeze‐thaw cycles, a physical process‐based model (CoupModel) coupled with uncertainty analysis was applied to 3‐year measurements under seasonal frost conditions from a site in the black soil belt of northeast China. The uncertainty in pa ...
... Key uncertainties remain in accurately measuring soil respiration, including how the commonly-used technique of collar insertion affects measured soil and root-derived CO₂ fluxes. We hypothesized that total soil respiration is frequently under-estimated because soil collar insertions sever surface roots, which coupled with the preferential practice of taking daytime measurements, leads to the auto ...
... The aim of this work was to examine the effect of pine forests on the soil microbial community along an altitudinal gradient in the Cuenca Mountains, Spain. Six experimental forest areas and two tree diversity levels (monospecific and mixed pine forest) were selected according to the following types: (i) at lower altitudes (up to 960 m above sea level), a monospecific Spanish black pine (Pinus nig ...
... Forested peatlands contain large pools of terrestrial carbon. As well as drainage, forest management such as fertilizer application can affect these pools. We studied the effect of wood ash (application rates 0, 5 and 15 t ha−1) on the heterotrophic soil respiration (CO2 efflux), cellulose decomposition, soil nutrients, biomass production and amount of C accumulated in a tree stand on a pine‐domin ...
Landsat; agricultural land; crops; land cover; models; prediction; regression analysis; soil formation; soil temperature; surveys; urban agriculture; Romania; United States
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... Mean annual soil temperature has important implications for crops as well as for soil classification and formation. Landsat 7 Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) bandâ6 was analysed to determine its relationship with mean annual soil temperature (MAST) at 50 cm in the Transylvanian Plain, Romania. Bandâ6 is available in both high and low gain formats from the United States Geological Survey; ...
... We deployed an automated multiplexed soil‐respiration (SR) system to monitor partitioned soil CO2 component fluxes (from roots, mycorrhizal hyphae and heterotrophs) in a UK grassland using a combination of shallow surface (total SR flux), deep (excluding roots and mycorrhizal fungi) and 20‐µm pore mesh window soil collars (excluding roots only). Soil CO2 efflux was monitored during a 3‐month perio ...
... Soil carbon (C) storage potential has received considerable attention for its role in climate change mitigation, and much research work has been devoted to studying the effect of land‐use change, including land abandonment, on carbon dynamics. A comparative analysis of soil organic carbon (SOC), easily extractable Bradford‐reactive soil protein (EE‐BRSP) and Bradford‐reactive soil protein (BRSP) w ...
... Montane grasslands of Central Europe are expected to be exposed to strong warming and to altered precipitation patterns, suggesting that biosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere exchange of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) compounds may be vulnerable to future climatic conditions. By transferring small lysimeters along an altitudinal gradient, we assessed the impact of climate change conditions on soil–atmosph ...
... The transition of grasslands to forests influences many ecosystem processes, including water and temperature regimes and the cycling of nutrients. Different components of the carbon biogeochemical cycle respond strongly to woody plant encroachment; as a consequence, the carbon balance of the invaded grasslands can change markedly. In our research, we studied the response of soil respiration (RS) t ...
case studies; climate; hydrogen; models; rain; seasonal variation; soil temperature; soil water content; summer; urban soils; winter; Poland
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... Uptake of atmospheric hydrogen by soils constitutes the most important sink of this gas at the global scale. However, little is known about the strength and spatio‐temporal variability of this sink. We present the results of a systematic study aimed at characterizing hydrogen uptake by urban soils. The study was carried out at two field sites in Krakow, southern Poland. The measured fluxes of hydr ...
... Methane (CH₄) emission patterns were investigated at an old landfill in northern Germany during a 2‐year campaign over three different time‐scales (seasonal, daily and diurnal) using modified static chambers. Emissions were not uniformly distributed over the cover soil, but occurred through localized preferential pathways (hotspots). The range of emissions from the 14 investigated hotspots at any ...
... Agriculture significantly contributes to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is a need to develop effective mitigation strategies. The efficacy of methods to reduce GHG fluxes from agricultural soils can be affected by a range of interacting management and environmental factors. Uniquely, we used the Taguchi experimental design methodology to rank the relative importance of six factors ...
... The response of soil respiration (Rₛ) and its components (autotrophic [Rₐ] and heterotrophic respiration [Rₕ]) to climate warming is one of the uncertainties in ecosystem carbon (C) models. Here we conducted a warming experiment in an alpine meadow dominated by Koresbia in the permafrost region of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau (QTP) to examine effects of warming on Rₛand its components. Infrared heate ...
... The Sergyemla Mountains have unique timberline patterns. Abies georgei var. smithii (Viguie & Gaussen) and Juniperus saltuaria (Rehder & E. H. Wilson) dominate the north‐facing and south‐facing slopes of a U‐shaped valley, respectively. Although these two timberlines represent the world's highest natural tree lines, little is known about the structure of their soil bacterial communities and the fa ...
... Pulses of microbial nitrogen (N) supply often occur during storms in Mediterranean regions, but their contribution to soil N availability and catchment N exports is still unknown. We investigated patterns and controls of pulses of net N mineralization (NNM) and nitrification (NN) at three forest sites (riparian, evergreen oak and beech) that coexist within a Mediterranean headwater catchment. In a ...
air; developmental stages; greenhouse experimentation; greenhouse gas emissions; growing season; methane; methane production; nitrous oxide; redox potential; rice; rice soils; rice straw; soil temperature; water temperature
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... We investigated the effect of increased temperatures of water and soil, together with the incorporation of rice straw, on emissions of methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O), and the daily variation in CH₄ emissions. Three temperature treatments (floodwater temperature), ambient, ambient +2°C and ambient +4°C, and two amounts of rice straw (0 and 6 t ha⁻¹) were arranged in a randomized complete blo ...
... The decomposition of soil organic matter, as an essential part of nutrient cycling, has a crucial role in maintaining soil fertility and the regulation of climate. This function of the soil is likely to be affected by extreme weather events that are expected to be more frequent and severe in the future. We conducted an experiment from March 2014 to March 2015 to test the effects of extreme drought ...
... Soil‐surface heat flux (G₀), an important component of the surface energy balance, is often determined by summing soil heat flux (Gz) at a depth (z) below the surface and the rate of change in soil heat storage (ΔS) in the layer above z. The soil heat flux Gz is commonly measured with passive heat flux plates, but self‐calibrating plates or additional corrections are required to obtain accurate da ...
climate change; cold zones; frost; frozen soils; glacial till soils; heat; melting; model validation; simulation models; snow; snowmelt; soil quality; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; soil water retention; temperature profiles; thermal conductivity; time series analysis; topsoil; winter; Finland
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... In Nordic regions water infiltration into soil is controlled by soil moisture content and frozen soil conditions, which are regulated by soil temperature. For long‐term model predictions of the effects of climate change, models need to be tested with long‐term data to assess model sensitivity to parameter uncertainties under both typical and exceptional conditions. Ten‐year (2002–2011) daily soil ...
... The aim of this study was to assess how higher soil temperatures and increased nitrogen (N) availability, mediated by the N₂ fixation of different Alnus species, affect soil nitrous oxide (N₂O) emissions. We measured rates of N₂O emission in situ under non‐N₂‐fixing tree species or grassland (controls) and under Alnus species by the closed chamber technique along a temperature gradient of 5.7 K fr ...
... The plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae) is one of the main native soil faunas on the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and plays a key role in the terrestrial ecosystem there. To understand how and why the soil microclimate changes after the plateau pika's disturbance, this study measured soil, vegetation, hydrologic and thermal properties and investigated soil moisture and soil temperature dynamics from 2014 t ...
... Soil bacteria play a key role in nutrient cycling, but the mechanisms behind seasonal variation of bacterial communities in different types of soil remain unclear. In this study, the bacterial composition during four seasons and at four soil depths (0–10, 10–20, 20–40 and 40–60 cm) in a Betula albosinensis forest of the Qinling Mountains (southern Shaanxi Province, China) was investigated. Illumin ...
models; seasonal variation; soil respiration; soil temperature; trenching; water content
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... SUMMARY: To obtain an improved understanding of the response of soil respiration (RS) to soil temperature and water content, we used a trenching treatment that could divide RS into autotrophic (RA) and heterotrophic respiration (RH) components in Chinese tea gardens in 2013. The results of the linear and non‐linear relations of RH and RA with soil temperature and water content showed that temperat ...
aboveground biomass; application rate; biochar; carbon sequestration; corn; developmental stages; field experimentation; grain yield; growing season; nutrient use efficiency; soil density; soil temperature; soil treatment; soil water; soil water content; straw; wastes; water content; water storage; winter wheat
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... Biochar application to soil has been widely accepted as an approach to enhance soil carbon sequestration, promote nutrient use efficiency and improve crop yields. Maize straw‐derived biochar application is also a novel practice for the sustainable use of straw waste. However, it remains unclear whether biochar modifies soil temperature, thereby influencing winter wheat growth. Field experiments we ...
Boris Ťupek; Samuli Launiainen; Mikko Peltoniemi; Risto Sievänen; Jari Perttunen; Liisa Kulmala; Timo Penttilä; Antti‐Jussi Lindroos; Shoji Hashimoto; Aleksi Lehtonen
... We can curb climate change by improved management decisions for the most important terrestrial carbon pool, soil organic carbon stock (SOC). However, we need to be confident we can obtain the correct representation of the simultanous effect of the input of plant litter, soil temperature and water (which could be altered by climate or management) on the decomposition of soil organic matter. In this ...
... Climate change has altered global precipitation regimes in terms of intensity and frequency of drought stress and, consequently, it is likely to affect soil moisture and soil aggregation. However, we know little about the effects of drought on soil aggregate size, distribution and stability, and how that affects carbon sequestration. A drought manipulation experiment was conducted by throughfall e ...
... To control the soil seed bank of invasive plants with microwaves represents an alternative method to chemical treatments, but it could alter soil quality. Microwave effects were investigated on 17 soil physicochemical and biological properties. Four 915‐MHz microwave treatments combining power and duration of exposure were applied on alluvial soil from a grassland using Festuca seeds as an interna ...
Hevea brasiliensis; carbon; dry season; environmental factors; land use change; old-growth forests; photosynthesis; plantations; rubber; soil carbon; soil respiration; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; stand age; trenching; tropical forests; wet season; China
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... The land use change from tropical forests to rubber plantations has had a great influence on ecosystem‐level carbon (C) exchange and soil C dynamics. This study aimed to assess the variation of soil respiration and its components in rubber plantations of different stand age. A trenching method was used to partition soil respiration (RS) into autotrophic respiration (RA) and heterotrophic respirati ...
cold; conventional tillage; corn; grain yield; no-tillage; plastic film mulches; semiarid zones; soil profiles; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; water conservation; water use efficiency; China
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... Management strategies are needed to solve the problem of low soil temperatures under no‐tillage combined with residue retention, which can reduce crop yields in cold semiarid regions. Plastic mulching has been proposed as a solution. A 4‐year field study was conducted to investigate the effects of no‐tillage combined with residue retention and plastic mulching (NTRP), compared with no‐tillage with ...
... There is a lack of field methods for measuring plant and soil processes controlling soil organic matter (SOM) turnover over diurnal, seasonal and longer timescales with which to develop datasets for modelling. We describe an automated field system for measuring plant and soil carbon fluxes over such timescales using stable isotope methods, and we assess its performance. The system comprises 24 lar ...
bulk density; clay; irrigated farming; model validation; organic matter; salinity; soil temperature; surveys; variance; water content; Spain
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... Electromagnetic induction (EMI) measurements (σb*) are widely used for the survey of several soil attributes, among which basic properties such as salinity (σₑ), water content (θw), clay (wc), organic matter (wₒₘ) and bulk density (ρb) stand out. In usual practice, purely empirical models relating one of these properties to σb* are calibrated at selected sites. However, this calibration is site an ...
... Soil net nitrogen (N) mineralisation, the difference between organic nitrogen mineralisation and mineral nitrogen immobilisation, changes with elevation, thereby determining plant productivity and soil N cycling along elevation gradients. However, it has yet to be established how different microbial functional genes influence the rate of soil net N mineralisation along such gradients. To address t ...
air temperature; atmospheric precipitation; carbon dioxide; climate; climate change; data collection; drainage; ecosystems; global carbon budget; leaves; model validation; soil carbon; soil respiration; soil temperature; soil water; soil water content; vegetation; water content
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... Soil respiration (RS), the soil‐to‐atmosphere CO₂ flux that is a major component of the global carbon cycle, is strongly influenced by local soil temperature (Tₛₒᵢₗ) and water content (SWC). Regional to global‐scale RS modelling thus requires this information at local scales, but few high‐quality, wall‐to‐wall (global) Tₛₒᵢₗ and SWC data exist. As a result, such modelling efforts commonly use air ...
climate; community structure; microbial biomass; microbial communities; nitrogen; seasonal variation; soil carbon; soil microorganisms; soil temperature; China
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... Climate warming will shift the seasonal variation of the soil microbial community and thereby regulate the soil process dynamics of forest ecosystems. To evaluate the effects of warming on soil microbial community seasonal dynamics, an in situ experiment was conducted in a natural forest and a dragon spruce plantation in the subalpine region of the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Open‐top chambers (OTCs) ...