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- Title
Response of soil organic matter pools to elevated CO and warming in a semi-arid grassland.
- Authors
Carrillo, Yolima; Pendall, Elise; Dijkstra, Feike; Morgan, Jack; Newcomb, Joanne
- Abstract
Warming and elevated atmospheric CO (eCO) can elicit contrasting responses on different SOM pools, thus to understand the effects of combined factors it is necessary to evaluate individual pools. Over two years, we assessed responses to eCO and warming of SOM pools, their susceptibility to decomposition, and whether these responses were mediated by plant inputs in a semi-arid grassland at the PHACE ( Prairie Heating and CO Enrichment) experiment. We used long-term soil incubations and assessed relationships between plant inputs and the responses of the labile and resistant pools. We found strong and contrasting effects of eCO and warming on the labile C pool. In 2008 labile C was increased by eCO and was positively related to plant biomass. In contrast, in 2007 eCO and warming had interactive effects on the labile C, and the pool size was not related to plant biomass. Effects of warming and eCO in this year were consistent withtreatment effects on soil moisture and temperature and their effects on labile C decomposition. The decomposition rate of the resistant C was positively related to indicators of plant C inputs. Our approach demonstrated that SOM pools in this grassland can have early and contrasting responses to climate change factors. The labile C pool in the mixed-grass prairie was highly responsive to eCO and warming but the factors behind such responses were highly dynamic across years. Results suggest that in this grassland the resistant C pool could be negatively affected by increases in plant-production driven available soil C.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change; ECOLOGY; GRASSLANDS; PLANT biomass; SOIL moisture; BIODEGRADATION
- Publication
Plant & Soil, 2011, Vol 347, Issue 1/2, p339
- ISSN
0032-079X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11104-011-0853-4