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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2020, Vol. 56 ›› Issue (12): 19-27.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20201203

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Non-Destructive Detection by Ground Penetrating Radar of Growth Characteristics and Spatial Structure of Rhizomes in Moso Bamboo Forest

Yulu Xiong,Yufeng Zhou,Pingheng Li*,Liang Tong,Guomo Zhou,Yongjun Shi,Huaqiang Du   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Subtropical Silviculture Key Laboratory of Forest Ecosystem Carbon Cycle, Sequestration and Emission Reduction in Zhejiang Province School of Environmental and Resource Sciences, Zhejiang A & F University Hangzhou 311300
  • Received:2019-06-19 Online:2020-12-25 Published:2021-01-22
  • Contact: Pingheng Li

Abstract:

Objective: A method of non-destructive detection for the spatial structure of underground bamboo rhizomes in moso bamboo forest by using ground penetrating radar(GPR) was developed, in order to solve the problem that the spatial structure and underground biomass could not be accurately predicted due to the deep underground and inconvenient observation of moso bamboo rhizomes, providing a new idea for the study of underground bamboo rhizomes in moso bamboo forest. Method: The GPR was used to detect the bamboo rhizomes in the sample plots of moso bamboo forest. The information of bamboo rhizomes was extracted after radar data pretreatment. At the same time, the diameters of bamboo rhizomes were estimated based on hyperbolic model, and the biomass of bamboo rhizomes was fitted by diameter (D) and length (L). Then the measured values were used to test the model. Finally, the vertical and horizontal spatial structure of bamboo rhizomes was analyzed. Result: The GPR could effectively detect the position of the underground bamboo rhizomes. The error range of the hyperbolic model for the diameter and length of the bamboo rhizomes were -14.45%-20.66% and 0.53%-8.51%. The estimated error range of the space position in X, Y and Z directions were 0.13%-6.65%, 1.23%-6.55%, and 2.42%-7.41%, respectively. The estimated values were close to the measured values. As for biomass, polynomial model and exponential model using DL and D2L as variables had the best fitting results. The coefficient of determination (R2) ranged from 0.93 to 0.95, and the root mean square error (RMSE) was from 18.3 to 22.4 kg·hm-2. The simulated results of the exponential and polynomial models with D2L as variables were significantly better than that of the exponential and polynomial models with D, D2 and DL as variables. Generally, the exponential model with D2L as the variable was the best fitting model of bamboo rhizomes biomass(BR), while the specific expression was BR=65.17e0.002D2L. Analysis of bamboo rhizomes spatial structure showed that the vertical distribution of bamboo rhizomes was mainly in 0-40 cm soil layer, in which the number of rhizomes accounts for 91% of the total, while the length and biomass of bamboo rhizomes account for 95% and 93% of the total respectively, and the diameter of bamboo rhizomes in the lower soil (>20 cm) was significantly larger than that in the surface soil (0-20 cm). The underground rhizomes were tortuous, and the spatial distribution was relatively uniform. There was little difference in the diameter of the same rhizomes, but there were significantly differences in the diameter of different rhizomes (P < 0.01). The length and biomass of the rhizomes per unit area in the sample plot were 54 080 m·hm-2 and 1 001.17 kg·hm-2 respectively. Conclusion: The results showed that GPR could successfully detect the position information of the underground bamboo rhizomes and obtain the vertical and horizontal spatial structure of the bamboo rhizomes. At the same time, the bamboo rhizomes diameter model and the biomass model also produced the good prediction results, indicating that GPR technology could provide technical support for the study of bamboo rhizomes structure and dynamics and the relationship with above-ground standing bamboo.

Key words: moso bamboo forest, ground penetrating radar, rhizomes system, spatial structure, non-destructive detection

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