Articles | Volume 14, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-99-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-99-2017
Research article
 | 
10 Jan 2017
Research article |  | 10 Jan 2017

Soil CO2 efflux from two mountain forests in the eastern Himalayas, Bhutan: components and controls

Norbu Wangdi, Mathias Mayer, Mani Prasad Nirola, Norbu Zangmo, Karma Orong, Iftekhar Uddin Ahmed, Andras Darabant, Robert Jandl, Georg Gratzer, and Andreas Schindlbacher

Related authors

Soil CO2 efflux from mountainous windthrow areas: dynamics over 12 years post-disturbance
M. Mayer, B. Matthews, A. Schindlbacher, and K. Katzensteiner
Biogeosciences, 11, 6081–6093, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6081-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-6081-2014, 2014
Short summary
Can current moisture responses predict soil CO2 efflux under altered precipitation regimes? A synthesis of manipulation experiments
S. Vicca, M. Bahn, M. Estiarte, E. E. van Loon, R. Vargas, G. Alberti, P. Ambus, M. A. Arain, C. Beier, L. P. Bentley, W. Borken, N. Buchmann, S. L. Collins, G. de Dato, J. S. Dukes, C. Escolar, P. Fay, G. Guidolotti, P. J. Hanson, A. Kahmen, G. Kröel-Dulay, T. Ladreiter-Knauss, K. S. Larsen, E. Lellei-Kovacs, E. Lebrija-Trejos, F. T. Maestre, S. Marhan, M. Marshall, P. Meir, Y. Miao, J. Muhr, P. A. Niklaus, R. Ogaya, J. Peñuelas, C. Poll, L. E. Rustad, K. Savage, A. Schindlbacher, I. K. Schmidt, A. R. Smith, E. D. Sotta, V. Suseela, A. Tietema, N. van Gestel, O. van Straaten, S. Wan, U. Weber, and I. A. Janssens
Biogeosciences, 11, 2991–3013, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2991-2014,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-2991-2014, 2014

Related subject area

Biogeochemistry: Air - Land Exchange
Synergy between TROPOMI sun-induced chlorophyll fluorescence and MODIS spectral reflectance for understanding the dynamics of gross primary productivity at Integrated Carbon Observatory System (ICOS) ecosystem flux sites
Hamadou Balde, Gabriel Hmimina, Yves Goulas, Gwendal Latouche, and Kamel Soudani
Biogeosciences, 20, 1473–1490, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1473-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1473-2023, 2023
Short summary
Atmospheric deposition of reactive nitrogen to a deciduous forest in the southern Appalachian Mountains
John T. Walker, Xi Chen, Zhiyong Wu, Donna Schwede, Ryan Daly, Aleksandra Djurkovic, A. Christopher Oishi, Eric Edgerton, Jesse Bash, Jennifer Knoepp, Melissa Puchalski, John Iiames, and Chelcy F. Miniat
Biogeosciences, 20, 971–995, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-971-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-971-2023, 2023
Short summary
Tropical cyclones facilitate recovery of forest leaf area from dry spells in East Asia
Yi-Ying Chen and Sebastiaan Luyssaert
Biogeosciences, 20, 349–363, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-349-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-349-2023, 2023
Short summary
Lichen species across Alaska produce highly active and stable ice nucleators
Rosemary J. Eufemio, Ingrid de Almeida Ribeiro, Valeria Molinero, Mischa Bonn, Todd L. Sformo, Gary A. Laursen, Janine Fröhlich-Nowoisky, and Konrad Meister
Biogeosciences Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2022-239,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2022-239, 2023
Revised manuscript accepted for BG
Short summary
Minor contributions of daytime monoterpenes are major contributors to atmospheric reactivity
Deborah F. McGlynn, Graham Frazier, Laura E. R. Barry, Manuel T. Lerdau, Sally E. Pusede, and Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz
Biogeosciences, 20, 45–55, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-45-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-45-2023, 2023
Short summary

Cited articles

Adhikari, B., Rawat, Y., and Singh, S.: Structure and function of high altitude forests of central Himalaya, I. Dry matter dynamics, Ann. Bot., 75, 237–248, 1995.
Bader, N. E. and Cheng, W.: Rhizosphere priming effect of Populus fremontii obscures the temperature sensitivity of soil organic carbon respiration, Soil Biol. Biochem., 39, 600–606, 2007.
Bengtson, P., Barker, J., and Grayston, S. J.: Evidence of a strong coupling between root exudation, C and N availability, and stimulated SOM decomposition caused by rhizosphere priming effects, Ecol. Evol., 2, 1843–1852, https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.311, 2012.
Bisht, V. K., Nautiyal, B. P., Kuniyal, C. P., Prasad, P., and Sundriyal, R. C.: Litter Production, Decomposition, and Nutrient Release in Subalpine Forest Communities of the Northwest Himalaya, J. Ecosyst., 2014, 1–13, 2014.
Bolstad, P., Davis, K., Martin, J., Cook, B., and Wang, W.: Component and whole-system respiration fluxes in northern deciduous forests, Tree Physiol., 24, 493–504, 2004.
Download
Short summary
Carbon cycling in Himalayan mountain forest ecosystems is not well studied. We studied soil respiration and its autotrophic and heterotrophic components as well as the effects of environmental drivers in mixed and broadleaf forest ecosystems in the Bhutan Himalayas for the first time. Soil respiration rates were similar in the two forest ecosystems. A simple temperature-driven model was able to explain more than 90 % of the temporal variation in soil respiration.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint