王茂沟流域淤地坝系土壤颗粒与有机碳分布特征研究

为了研究黄土高原丘陵沟壑区坝系坝地土壤颗粒与有机碳的分布特征,以陕北绥德县王茂沟小流域为研究对象,选取了47个土壤剖面,采集土样940个,分析了分形维数、粗化度、有机碳与各粒径组成之间的关系。结果表明:（1）研究区坝地的土壤粒径分布中,粉粒含量占主导地位,依次为砂粒、黏粒;（2）王茂沟坝地土壤颗粒的分形维数在2.674~2.829之内变化,垂直剖面上变化很微小,坝前、坝中、坝后土壤颗粒分形维数分别为2.803 3,2.783 6,2.795 8;（3）王茂沟坝地土壤质地粗化度在0.27~0.58,平均值为0.44,坝前（0.40） < 坝后（0.45） < 坝中（0.46）;（4）坝地土壤颗粒在0.05~0.002 mm和 < 0.002 mm范围内与土壤颗粒的分形维数成极显著正相关,在2.0~0.05 mm范围内与土壤颗粒的分形维数成极显著负相关;坝地土壤有机碳与粉粒和黏粒呈正相关,与细砂粒和极细沙粒含量呈负相关。     

陆地生态系统碳循环对土地利用变化的响应

陆地生态系统碳循环在全球碳循环中占有重要地位,而土地利用变化是估测陆地生态系统碳储存与释放的最大不确定性因素。植被和土壤是陆地生态系统的两大碳库,是碳循环中的两个重要纽带,土地利用变化影响陆地生态系统土壤和植被碳的固定、积累与释放,从而影响整个碳循环过程。本文主要从土壤和植被碳库的角度出发,综述了近年来土地利用变化对陆地生态系统碳循环的影响及其机理,以及研究方法进展,着重分析了模型在此方面的应用;并提出了未来研究方向的展望。     

贡嘎南山-拉轨岗日山南坡高寒草原生态系统表层土壤有机碳分布特征及其影响因素

为揭示贡嘎南山-拉轨岗日山南坡高寒草原生态系统表层土壤有机碳分布特征及其影响因素。在不同海拔高度取土样测定土壤理化指标,现场调查植物物种数、土壤类型等,研究了该区域0～20cm土壤有机碳分布特征及其影响因素。结果表明:高寒草原生态系统表层(0～20cm)土壤有机碳密度平均为5.1625±1.2786kgm-2,变异系数24.77%。在海拔4424～4804m范围内,随着海拔升高,表层(0～20cm)土壤有机碳密度表现出增加→减少增加→减少的分布特征。相关分析表明,表层土壤有机碳密度与植被盖度、30～40cm地下生物量、10～20cm土壤含水量、海拔高度、坡度、土壤有机质呈正相关关系,而与0～10cm土壤含水量、30～40cm土壤含水量、土壤pH值和土壤速效N呈负相关关系,影响表层土壤有机碳密度最关键的环境因子是30～40cm地下生物量、土壤pH值、土壤有机质和土壤速效N含量。     

人工修复措施对严重退化红壤固碳效益的影响

固碳效益是侵蚀退化地水土保持效益的重要组成部分,其对全面评价生态修复意义重大.从人工促进生态修复林分固碳功能出发,以裸露地为对照,不同人工修复措施林分为研究对象,对其碳储量及固碳价值进行了研究.结果表明,人工修复显著增加了植被碳库和土壤碳库的碳储量,强烈干扰马尾松、竹节沟马尾松、种草竹节沟马尾松和竹节沟湿地松植被碳库分别为6.12,6.83,8.20和32.69 t/hm2,其土壤碳库分别为裸露地的1.16,1.37,1.60和2.71倍,固碳总价值分别比裸露地增加了0.36,0.60,0.87和2.78倍.     

长期施肥下灰漠土有机碳组分含量及其演变特征

采用湿筛和重液悬浮的物理分组方法分析了18年不同施肥模式下灰漠土有机碳组分含量差异及其演变特征。结果表明:与不施肥相比,长期有机无机肥配施(NPKM和1.5 NPKM)增加各有机碳组分的效果最显著,且粗和细自由颗粒有机碳、物理保护有机碳、矿物结合有机碳增加速率最高,平均分别达到0.12、0.06、0.08及0.17g/(kg.a);秸秆还田使粗和细自由颗粒有机碳分别以0.05和0.03 g/(kg.a)的速率增加,而撂荒和施化肥维持着各有机碳组分的含量。不同有机碳组分间存在显著的相关性,其中以粗自由颗粒有机碳含量增幅最高,不同施肥模式下平均增幅是其它有机碳组分的2.18~.0倍;以矿物结合有机碳所占比例最高,达到56.9%7~7.8%,说明粗自由颗粒有机碳对施肥较敏感,而矿物结合有机碳是灰漠土固存有机碳的主要形式。综上分析,长期有机无机肥配施是提高灰漠土有机碳组分含量和培肥土壤的有效模式。     

Plot-scale manipulations of organic matter inputs to soils correlate with shifts in microbial community composition in a lowland tropical rain forest

Little is known about the organisms responsible for decomposition in terrestrial ecosystems, or how variations in their relative abundance may influence soil carbon (C) cycling. Here, we altered organic matter in situ by manipulating both litter and throughfall inputs to tropical rain forest soils, and then used qPCR and error-corrected bar-coded pyrosequencing to investigate how the resulting changes in soil chemical properties affected microbial community structure. The plot-scale manipulations drove significant changes in microbial community composition: Acidobacteria were present in greater relative abundance in litter removal plots than in double-litter plots, while Alphaproteobacteria were found in higher relative abundance in double-litter and throughfall reduction plots than in control or litter removal plots. In addition, the bacterial:archaeal ratio was higher in double-litter than no-litter plots. The relative abundances of Actinobacteria, Alphaproteobacteria and Gammaproteobacteria were positively correlated with microbial biomass C and nitrogen (N), and soil N and C pools, while acidobacterial relative abundance was negatively correlated with these same factors. Bacterial:archaeal ratios were positively correlated with soil moisture, total soil C and N, extractable ammonium pools, and soil C:N ratios. Additionally, bacterial:archaeal ratios were positively related to the relative abundance of Actinobacteria, Gammaproteobacteria, and Actinobacteria, and negatively correlated to the relative abundance of Nitrospira and Acidobacteria. Together, our results support the copiotrophic/oligotrophic model of soil heterotrophic microbes suggested by Fierer et al. (2007).     

长期施肥红壤矿物颗粒结合有机碳储量及其固定速率

采用物理分组方法分析了长期不同施肥模式下红壤耕层（0—20cm）不同大小矿物颗粒结合态有机碳储量差异及其固定速率。结果表明,与不施肥相比,长期施肥均显著增加了耕层土壤砂粒、粗粉粒、细粉粒及粗黏粒结合有机碳的储量,且以配施有机肥（M、NPKM和1．5NPKM）效果最显著,固碳速率分别达到0．13-0．24、0．19-0．23、0．05-0．16及0．12～0．36Mg·hm^-2．a^-1;施化肥（NPK、NP、N）和秸秆还田（NPKS）有利于增加细黏粒有机碳储量,且固碳速率高于配施有机肥,分别达到0．08～0．13和0．11Mg·hm^-2·a^-1。17a有机肥配施有利于增加固存于粗粉粒（30．5％）和粗黏粒（30．7％）中的有机碳;而秸秆还田（NPKS）和化肥施用下,有利于增加固存于粗粉粒（32．9％）和细黏粒（42．9％）中的有机碳,说明无论化肥配施还是有机无机配施,红壤粗粉粒是固定新增有机碳的主要组分,而长期配施有机肥是提升红壤各级颗粒有机碳库的较好施肥模式。     

Land Use and Soil Organic Carbon in China’s Village Landscapes

Village landscapes, which integrate small-scale agriculture with housing, forestry, and a host of other land use practices, cover more than 2 million square kilometers across China. Village lands tend to be managed at very fine spatial scales (≤ 30 m), with managers both adapting their practices to existing variation in soils and terrain (e.g., fertile plains vs. infertile slopes) and also altering soil fertility and even terrain by terracing, irrigation, fertilizing, and other land use practices. Relationships between fine-scale land management patterns and soil organic carbon (SOC) in the top 30 cm of village soils were studied by sampling soils within fine-scale landscape features using a regionally weighted landscape sampling design across five environmentally distinct sites in China. SOC stocks across China’s village regions (5 Pg C in the top 30 cm of 2 × 10 6 km 2 ) represent roughly 4% of the total SOC stocks in global croplands. Although macroclimate varied from temperate to tropical in this study, SOC density did not vary significantly with climate, though it was negatively correlated with regional mean elevation. The highest SOC densities within landscapes were found in agricultural lands, especially paddy, the lowest SOC densities were found in nonproductive lands, and forest lands tended toward moderate SOC densities. Due to the high SOC densities of agricultural lands and their predominance in village landscapes, most village SOC was found in agricultural land, except in the tropical hilly region, where forestry accounted for about 45% of the SOC stocks. A surprisingly large portion of village SOC was associated with built structures and with the disturbed lands surrounding these structures, ranging from 18% in the North China Plain to about 9% in the tropical hilly region. These results confirmed that local land use practices, combined with local and regional variation in terrain, were associated with most of the SOC variation within and across China’s village landscapes and may be an important cause of regional variation in SOC.     

Starving the soil of plant inputs for 50 years reduces abundance but not diversity of soil bacterial communities

If soil communities rely on plant-derived carbon, is biodiversity lost when this primary source is removed? Soil microbial and mesofaunal communities at the Rothamsted Highfield site were compared under a mixed grass sward, arable rotation and a section maintained as a bare-fallow for the past 50 years by regular tillage. Organic matter reserves have been degraded and microbial and mesofaunal numbers and mite diversity have declined in this unique bare-fallow site, where fresh carbon inputs have been drastically reduced. However, it supports a species-rich metabolically active bacterial community of similar diversity to that in soil maintained as grass sward. Thus in contrast to soil mesofauna, bacterial diversity (but not abundance) is apparently independent of plant inputs.     

Salinity and sodicity effects on respiration and microbial biomass of soil

An understanding of the effects of salinity and sodicity on soil carbon (C) stocks and fluxes is critical in environmental management, as the areal extents of salinity and sodicity are predicted to increase. The effects of salinity and sodicity on the soil microbial biomass (SMB) and soil respiration were assessed over 12weeks under controlled conditions by subjecting disturbed soil samples from a vegetated soil profile to leaching with one of six salt solutions; a combination of low-salinity (0.5dSm⁻¹), mid-salinity (10dSm⁻¹), or high-salinity (30dSm⁻¹), with either low-sodicity (sodium adsorption ratio, SAR, 1), or high-sodicity (SAR 30) to give six treatments: control (low-salinity low-sodicity); low-salinity high-sodicity; mid-salinity low-sodicity; mid-salinity high-sodicity; high-salinity low-sodicity; and high-salinity high-sodicity. Soil respiration rate was highest (56–80mg CO₂-C kg⁻¹ soil) in the low-salinity treatments and lowest (1–5mg CO₂-C kg⁻¹ soil) in the mid-salinity treatments, while the SMB was highest in the high-salinity treatments (459–565mg kg⁻¹ soil) and lowest in the low-salinity treatments (158–172mg kg⁻¹ soil). This was attributed to increased substrate availability with high salt concentrations through either increased dispersion of soil aggregates or dissolution or hydrolysis of soil organic matter, which may offset some of the stresses placed on the microbial population from high salt concentrations. The apparent disparity in trends in respiration and the SMB may be due to an induced shift in the microbial population, from one dominated by more active microorganisms to one dominated by less active microorganisms.