Sequestration and turnover of plant‐ and microbially derived sugars in a temperate grassland soil during 7 years exposed to elevated atmospheric pCO2
Sequestration and turnover of plant‐ and microbially derived sugars in a temperate grassland soil during 7 years exposed to elevated atmospheric pCO2
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1365-2486.2006.01303.x
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发表时间:
2007-02
影响因子:
11.6
通讯作者:
M. Bock;B. Glaser;N. Millar
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作者:
M. Bock;B. Glaser;N. Millar
Temperate grasslands contribute about 20% to the global terrestrial carbon (C) budget with sugars contributing 10–50% to this soil C pool. Whether the observed increase of the atmospheric CO2 concentration (pCO2) leads to additional C sequestration into these ecosystems or enhanced mineralization of soil organic matter (SOM) is still unclear. Therefore, the aim of the presented study was to investigate the impact of elevated atmospheric pCO2 on C sequestration and turnover of plant‐ (arabinose and xylose) and microbially derived (fucose, rhamnose, galactose, mannose) sugars in soil, representing a labile SOM pool. The study was carried out at the Swiss Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) experiment near Zurich. For 7 years, Lolium perenne swards were exposed to ambient and elevated pCO2 (36 and 60 Pa, respectively). The additional CO2 in the FACE plots was depleted in 13C compared with ambient plots, so that ‘new’ (<7 years) C inputs could be determined by means of compound‐specific stable isotope analysis (13C : 12C). Samples were fractionated into clay, silt, fine sand and coarse sand, which yielded relatively stable and labile SOM pools with different turnover rates. Total sugar sequestration into bulk soil after 7 years of exposure to elevated pCO2 was about 28% compared with the control plots. In both ambient and elevated plots, total sugar concentrations in particle size fractions increased in the order sand