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- Title
Differential soil respiration responses to changing hydrologic regimes.
- Authors
Pacific, Vincent J.; McGlynn, Brian L.; Riveros-Iregui, Diego A.; Epstein, Howard E.; Welsch, Daniel L.
- Abstract
Soil respiration is tightly coupled to the hydrologic cycle (i.e., snowmelt and precipitation timing and magnitude). We examined riparian and hillslope soil respiration across a wet (2005) and a dry (2006) growing season in a subalpine catchment. When comparing the riparian zones, cumulative CO2 efflux was 33% higher, and peak efflux occurred 17 days earlier during the dry growing season. In contrast, cumulative efflux in the hillslopes was 8% lower, and peak efflux occurred 10 days earlier during the drier growing season. Our results demonstrate that soil respiration was more sensitive to drier growing season conditions in wet (riparian) landscape positions.
- Publication
Water Resources Research, 2009, Vol 45, Issue 7, pn/a
- ISSN
0043-1397
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1029/2009WR007721