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Spatial variation of soil respiration in a coastal protection forest in southeastern China

  • 2015 International Symposium on Forest Soils
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Abstract

Purpose

Forest soil respiration is an important component of global carbon budgets, but its spatial variation is inadequately understood. This research aimed to measure soil respiration (R s), soil water content (M s-5), soil temperature (T), and carbon dioxide (M co2) in a coastal protection forest (CPF), which is one kind of man-made forests designed for coastal protection primarily along the coast in China, to determine the relationships among them, and to analyze their spatial distributions in a small scale.

Materials and methods

We measured R s, M s-5, T, and M co2 of 100 plots in an approximately flat grid (totally 4 hm2) by LI-8100A in a Casuarina equisetifolia L. forest on a state-owned forest farm of 326 hm2 in SE China. Traditional statistics and geo-statistics including semivariance, Moran’s I index, and fractal dimension were used to analyze data.

Results and discussion

Key findings were that (1) the spatial mean of R s, M s-5, T, and M co2 were 1.194 μmol m−2 s−1, 11.387 mmol mol−1, 14.153 °C, and 407.716 ppm, respectively, in the forest; (2) the relationship between soil respiration and the other three factors was weak, while M s-5, T, and M co2 have strong relationships with each other; and (3) the four factors, especially soil respiration, had strong autocorrelation within given limits and showed great heterogeneity with 95 % confidence intervals around the means in the study area, all of which can provide important value for the study of carbon cycling and for the sustainable management of coastal protection forests.

Conclusions

According to geo-statistical analysis and field investigations, soil respiration in the coastal forest is less than in some broad-leaf forests but higher than in some conifers. Strong heterogeneity and autocorrelation are clear; however, its relation with other three factors is weak. CPF is a considerable potential forest for carbon conservation if it is well managed.

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Prof. Richard C. Schultz at Iowa State University and Professor John S. Richardson at University of British Columbia for providing valuable strains. This work was funded by NSFC (41201100), the special state revenue for supporting local (6213C011106), and Science and Technology Department of Fujian Province (2015J05048).

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  1. College of Forestry, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Can Chen, Tao Hong, Yongming Lin, Wei Hong & Hailan Fan

  2. Collegiate Key Lab of Forest-Ecosystem Process and Management in Fujian, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Can Chen, Tao Hong, Yongming Lin, Wei Hong & Hailan Fan

  3. Department of Ecology and Resource Engineering, Wuyi University, Nanping, 354300, China

    Chengzhen Wu

  4. Dahe State-Owned Shelter Forest Farm, Fuzhou, China

    Yu Lin

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Chen, C., Hong, T., Lin, Y. et al. Spatial variation of soil respiration in a coastal protection forest in southeastern China. J Soils Sediments 17, 2284–2295 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-016-1479-1

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