Title: Influences of soil moisture on soil respiration.
Abstract:Soil respiration is an important component of the terrestrial ecosystems carbon cycle,and has great effects on maintaining the balance of global carbon.Global warming is expected to alter patterns of ...Soil respiration is an important component of the terrestrial ecosystems carbon cycle,and has great effects on maintaining the balance of global carbon.Global warming is expected to alter patterns of global atmosphere circulation and hydrologic cycling,and this will lead to the change of precipitation regimes on global to regional scales,which will have a direct effect on soil moisture,so it is necessary to study how the change of soil moisture would affect soil respiration for predicting change of soil carbon storage in the future.In this paper,the authors reviewed the studies about the influences of soil moisture change on soil respiration,then analyzed how the change of soil moisture would affect each component of soil respiration systemically,and introduced how the soil moisture would affect Q10 briefly,finally,it point out the study fields that should be emphasized in the future.Read More
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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