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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2023, Vol. 59 ›› Issue (2): 10-21.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.LYKX20210639

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Responses of Root Respiration to Woodland Warming during Growing Season in Succession Series of Natural Secondary Forest in Warm-Temperate Mountain

Shikui Zhao1,2,Jinping Guo1,*,Yunxiang Zhang1   

  1. 1. College of Forestry, Shanxi Agriculture University Taigu 030801
    2. Jinzhong College of Information Taigu 030801
  • Received:2020-08-24 Online:2023-02-25 Published:2023-04-27
  • Contact: Jinping Guo

Abstract:

Objective: In order to reveal the effects of forest succession and simulated warming on forest plant and soil autotrophic respiration rates and their coupling effects, we measured soil and plant root autotrophic respiration rates from the warming. The root respiration rates of different plant layers during the growing season were measured to analyze their responses to warming, intending to provide more data for the research on the response mechanism of forest soil carbon cycle to climate warming in the process of forest succession. Method: Four natural secondary forest types from Guandi Mountains were selected for the study, including poplar-birch broad-leaved deciduous forest, Pinus tabulaeformis conifer and broad-leaved mixed forest and Larix principis rupprechtii forest and Picea meyeri forest. Field fixed-point comparison test was used to simulate forest warming by building greenhouses on the forest floor. Root removal method was used to distinguish root respiration from the total soil respiration. We used Li-6400 portable CO2 analyzer to measure the root respiration rates from 2016 to 2019 during the growing seasons. Results: The results showed that the warming increased the fine root biomass and carbon flux of total root respiration in the four forest types. Warming and its interaction with forest types significantly increased the root respiration rates of shrubs and herbs by 8.37%~15.26% and 10.88%~14.00%, respectively. As temperature increases the sensitivity of root respiration (Q10) decreased. However, warming did not change the patterns of root respiration during each growing season. The fine root biomass and root respiration rates decreased with progress of forest succession while the temperature sensitivity of root respiration (Q10) increased. Conclusion: Warming and its interaction with forest types did not significantly affect tree-root respiration rates. In contrast, root respiration rates of shrubs and herbs were significantly affected by warming, forest types and their interaction. With the increase of forest land temperature, forest root respiration rate increased, but its temperature sensitivity decreased, which indicated that the response of forest root respiration rate to temperature increase was complex.

Key words: succession, woodland warming, natural secondary forest, root respiration rate, warm -temperate zone

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