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Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on topographic variations of soil respiration
Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan
Abstract. Soil respiration rates were measured along different parts of a slope in (a) an evergreen forest with common brown forest soil and (b) a deciduous forest with immature soil. The effects of soil temperature, soil moisture and soil properties were estimated individually, and the magnitudes of these effects in the deciduous and evergreen forests were compared. In the evergreen forest with common brown forest soil, soil properties had the greatest effect on soil respiration rates, followed by soil moisture and soil temperature. These results may be explained by the fact that different soil properties matured within different environments. It can be argued that the low soil respiration rates in the low parts of the slope in the evergreen forest resulted from soil properties and not from wet soil conditions. In the deciduous forest, soil respiration rates were more strongly affected by soil moisture and soil temperature than by soil properties. These effects were likely due to the immaturity of the forest soil.
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Citation: Tamai, K.: Effects of environmental factors and soil properties on topographic variations of soil respiration, Biogeosciences, 7, 1133-1142, doi:10.5194/bg-7-1133-2010, 2010. Bibtex EndNote Reference Manager XML
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