Significant effects of precipitation frequency on soil respiration and its components-A global synthesis

© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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Veröffentlicht in:Global change biology. - 1999. - 29(2023), 4 vom: 08. Feb., Seite 1188-1205
1. Verfasser: Du, Yue (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Wang, Ying-Ping, Hui, Dafeng, Su, Fanglong, Yan, Junhua
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2023
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Global change biology
Schlagworte:Meta-Analysis Journal Article autotrophic respiration carbon cycling heterotrophic respiration meta-analysis microbial biomass precipitation regime prolonged droughts Soil mehr... Carbon 7440-44-0
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Zusammenfassung:© 2022 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
Global warming intensifies the hydrological cycle, which results in changes in precipitation regime (frequency and amount), and will likely have significant impacts on soil respiration (Rs ). Although the responses of Rs to changes in precipitation amount have been extensively studied, there is little consensus on how Rs will be affected by changes in precipitation frequency (PF) across the globe. Here, we synthesized the field observations from 296 published papers to quantify the effects of PF on Rs and its components using meta-analysis. Our results indicated that the effects of PF on Rs decreased with an increase in background mean annual precipitation. When the data were grouped by climate conditions, increased PF showed positive effects on Rs under the arid condition but not under the semi-humid or humid conditions, whereas decreased PF suppressed Rs across all the climate conditions. The positive effects of increased PF mainly resulted from the positive response of heterotrophic respiration under the arid condition while the negative effects of decreased PF were mainly attributed to the reductions in root biomass and respiration. Overall, our global synthesis provided for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the divergent effects of PF on Rs and its components across climate regions. This study also provided a framework for understanding and modeling responses of ecosystem carbon cycling to global precipitation change
Beschreibung:Date Completed 17.01.2023
Date Revised 23.01.2023
published: Print-Electronic
Citation Status MEDLINE
ISSN:1365-2486
DOI:10.1111/gcb.16532