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Comparative Study of Soil Respiration Partitioning Methods for Herbaceous Ecosystems

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Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services (SUITMA 2017)

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Abstract

Soil CO2 efflux is a complex flux composed of autotrophic and heterotrophic sources of the CO2. To correctly estimate whether soil is and will be acting as a sink or a source for atmospheric CO2, these two principal components should be studied separately. This is because they respond differently to biological and environmental drivers. Studies which compare partitioning methods of soil CO2 in one single study using unique measurement equipment are lacking instead.

In this study we attempted to compare three partitioning methods of soil CO2 efflux: mesh exclusion, combined SIR and regression method and to choose the most appropriate for herbaceous ecosystems (e.g. grasslands and urban lawns). Mesh exclusion and combined SIR demonstrated comparable results in determination of autotrophic and heterotrophic contribution to CO2 efflux and the methods were defined as suitable. Regression method necessitates ulterior improvements prior application in herbaceous ecosystems.

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Acknowledgements

The research leading to these results received funding from CarboEurope IP project (EU FP6 Framework, GOCE-CT-2003-505572), from Italian National Research Program (PNR) in the frame of the project of interest NextData. The publication was prepared with the support of the “RUDN University Program 5-100”.

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  1. Institute of Agro Environmental and Forest Biology, National Research Council, 05010, Porano, Italy

    Olga Gavrichkova

  2. Peoples Friendship University of Russia, (RUDN University), Moscow, 117198, Russian Federation

    Olga Gavrichkova

  3. Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, RAS, 142290, Pushchino, Moscow region, Russian Federation

    Ilya Evdokimov

  4. Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, University of Tuscia, 01100, Viterbo, Italy

    Riccardo Valentini

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  1. RUDN University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Viacheslav Vasenev

  2. RUDN University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Elvira Dovletyarova

  3. City University of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA

    Zhongqi Cheng

  4. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, c.Moscow, Russia

    Tatiana V. Prokof’eva

  5. Université de Lorraine , Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France

    Jean Louis Morel

  6. Institute of Physico-Chemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, c.Moscow, Russia

    Nadezhda D. Ananyeva

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Gavrichkova, O., Evdokimov, I., Valentini, R. (2019). Comparative Study of Soil Respiration Partitioning Methods for Herbaceous Ecosystems. In: Vasenev, V., Dovletyarova, E., Cheng, Z., Prokof’eva, T., Morel, J., Ananyeva, N. (eds) Urbanization: Challenge and Opportunity for Soil Functions and Ecosystem Services. SUITMA 2017. Springer Geography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89602-1_14

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