Litterfall and nutrient return in five tree species in a common garden experiment

Canopy litterfall is a significant pathway for return of nutrients and carbon (C) to the soil in forest ecosystems. Litterfall was studied in five even-aged stands of Norway spruce, Sitka spruce, Douglas-fir, European beech and common oak at three different locations in Denmark; two sandy sites, Ulborg and Lindet in Jutland, and one loamy site, Frederiksborg on Zealand. Litterfall was collected during three years from 1994 to 1996 in all five species and during six years from 1994 to 1999 in Norway spruce, Sitka spruce and European beech. The average total litterfall was in the range of 3200–3700 kg ha⁻¹ yr⁻¹ and did not differ significantly among tree species. There were no significant differences in total litterfall among sites during the short period, but during the longer period the richer site Frederiksborg had significantly higher total and foliar litterfall amounts compared to the more nutrient-poor sites Lindet and Ulborg. There were close relationships between foliar and total litterfall suggesting that foliar litterfall can be reliably estimated from total litterfall. Beech and oak bud scale litter was significantly related to foliar litterfall. The amount of branch and twig litter was significantly higher in oak than in other tree species. The average foliar litterfall was well related to the annual volume increment. The relationship differed markedly from previously reported relationships based on global litterfall data suggesting that such relationships are better evaluated at the regional level. Nutrient concentrations and fluxes in foliar litterfall were not significantly different among the five tree species. However, there was a significant effect of site on most nutrient concentrations of the three litterfall fractions, and foliar fluxes of P, Ca and Mn were all significantly highest at Frederiksborg and lowest at Ulborg. The similarity in litterfall inputs to the forest floor under these five tree species suggested that previous reports of large variability in forest floor accumulation should primarily be attributed to differences in litter decomposition.     

畜牧业温室气体排放机制及其减排研究进展

全球气候变暖已经成为人类共同关注的话题,畜牧业温室气体排放量占全球总量的18%,成为导致全球气候变暖的主要原因。因此,研究各种畜禽温室气体排放机制,找出畜禽温室气体的影响因子,对减少温室气体排放有着非常重要的意义。文章综述了畜禽温室气体排放的机理,提出减少畜禽温室气体排放的措施与对策,为探索节能、低温室气体排放的环保养殖提供参考。     

剔除林下灌草及添加固氮植物对华南地区4种人工林土壤甲烷(CH4)通量的影响

CH4是重要的温室气体之一,其主要排放源是森林土壤。本研究采用静态箱法对华南地区尾叶桉林（Eucalyptusurophylla）（B1）,厚荚相思林（Acacia crassicarpa）（B2）,10个树种的混交林（B3）和30个树种的混交林（B4）4种林型土壤CH4通量进行了原位测定,研究剔除林下灌草和添加翅荚决明（Cassia alata）对土壤CH4通量的影响。4个处理包括：（1）剔除林下灌草并添加翅荚决明（UR＋CA）;（2）仅剔除林下灌草（UR）;（3）仅添加翅荚决明（CA）;（4）对照（CK）。研究结果表明：林型变化对土壤CH4通量有重要影响,B1和B2表现为CH4的汇,而B3和B4为CH4的源,剔除林下灌草能改善土壤微生物活性,加快土壤矿化速度,促进CH4的吸收;而林下添加翅荚决明,由于翅荚决明根系的固氮作用,能加快土壤CH4的排放,表层土壤温度和湿度与土壤CH4通量具有强相关性;土壤有机碳（SOC）和可溶性N也是影响CH4通量的重要因子。本研究对探寻人工林管理措施对土壤CH4捧放影响机制具有重要的意义。     

A comparison of alternative modelling approaches to evaluate the European forest carbon fluxes

The European forest carbon balance studied by various methods shows different results. We compared the regional and national net primary production (NPP) estimated by the forest inventory-based model EFISCEN and the climate-based terrestrial ecosystem models (TEMs: BIOME-BGC, ORCHIDEE, and JULES), and single forests NPP derived from the international network of eddy-covariance towers (FLUXNET). In addition, the paper presents the net ecosystem production (NEP) and the net biome production (NBP) calculated with EFISCEN and discusses the influence of forest management onto carbon fluxes. We aimed to better understand the variance between EFISCEN and TEMs NPP estimates, and to improve the assessment of European forest mitigation potential for the year 2005.     

Greenhouse gas emissions between 1993 and 2002 from land-use change and forestry in Mexico

In this paper we present the Mexican inventory of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the land-use sector. It involved integration of forest inventory, land-use and soil data in a GIS to estimate the net flux of GHG between 1993 and 2002.     

漓江上游山区复杂地形水热通量的时空变化规律

为了估算漓江上游农林经济的发展对决定地表微气候环境的水热通量的影响,计算山区复杂地形影响下的地表太阳辐射以改进SEBAL模型,提出归一化水热通量使不同时相具有可比性,对漓江上游1989-2006年5景TM/ETM卫星图像利用改进模型反演水热通量。结果表明,在空间上随植被覆盖度的增加,显热通量降低而潜热通量增加,植被覆盖度在0.2～0.7时的影响非常显著。1989-2000年植被覆盖度均值明显降低,而2000-2006年逐渐上升,导致波文比(显热与潜热比)均值明显升高然后逐渐降低,归一化潜热数值较高的像元比例减少然后增加,归一化显热数值较高的像元比例增加然后减少。尽管在2006年植被覆盖度均值接近于1989年,但波文比均值仍明显高于1989年。研究区经济林、旱地农作物面积的增加,阔叶林面积减少,水源林的减少与退化,导致了显热与潜热比平均值的升高。     

Fluxes of CO2 above a plantation of Eucalyptus in southeast Brazil

Eddy-covariance measurements of net ecosystem exchange of CO₂ (NEE) and estimates of gross ecosystem productivity (GEP) and ecosystem respiration (R_E) were obtained in a 2-4 year old Eucalyptus plantation during two years with very different winter rainfall. In the first (drier) year the annual NEE, GEP and R_E were lower than the sums in the second (normal) year, and conversely the total respiratory costs of assimilated carbon were higher in the dry year than in the normal year.Although the net primary production (NPP) in the first year was 23% lower than that of the second year, the decrease in the carbon use efficiency (CUE = NPP/GEP) was 11% and autotrophic respiration utilized more resources in the first, dry year than in the second, normal year. The time variations in NEE were followed by NPP, because in these young Eucalyptus plantations NEE is very largely dominated by NPP, and heterotrophic respiration plays only a relatively minor role.During the dry season a pronounced hysteresis was observed in the relationship between NEE and photosynthetically active radiation, and NEE fluxes were inversely proportional to humidity saturation deficit values greater than 0.8 kPa. Nighttime fluxes of CO₂ during calm conditions when the friction velocity (u_*) was below the threshold (0.25 m s⁻¹) were estimated based on a Q₁₀ temperature-dependence relationship adjusted separately for different classes of soil moisture content, which regulated the temperature sensitivity of ecosystem respiration.     

Effects of Water Regime and Straw Application in Paddy Rice Season on N2O Emission from Following Wheat Growing Season

A split-plot experiment in a rice-winter wheat rotation system was performed to study theeffects of water regime and wheat straw application in rice-growing season on N2O emission from followingwheat growing season. Water regime in the rice-growing season was designed as the conventional irrigation(flooding/drainage cycle) and the permanent flooding. Wheat straw was incorporated with three rates of 0,225 and 450 g m-2 into the paddy soil for each water regime just before rice was transplanted. N2O emissionwas measured by static chamber-gas chromatograph method. Results from the variance analysis indicated thatthe permanent flooding in rice-growing season markedly enhanced N2O emission in following wheat growingseason (P=0. 003), and that the effect of straw application on N2O emission was distinguished between twowater regimes. Under the conventional irrigation, incoporation of wheat straw reduced N2O emission in thefollowing wheat growing season, while there were no significant differences in the emission for the straw appli-cation rates of 225 and 450 g m-2. No significant differences in N2 O emissions were observed among the threerates of straw application for the permanent flooding regime. In addition, the seasonal variation of N2O emis-sion was regulated by soil temperature and moisture. The daily N2O flux (Y, mgm-2 d-1) can be quantitativelydescribed by soil temperature (T, ℃ ) and moisture (W, WFPS %) as Y=A0+A1T+A2W+A3 W2 (n=23, R2≥0. 4159** )or Y=C0 +C1W+C2W2 (n=23, R2 ≥0. 4074**). Compared with the effect of soil temperature onN2O emission, soil moisture was an important factor regulating the seasonal pattern of N2O emission.     

In vitro binding of germanium to proteins of rice shoots

The possibility of in vitro binding between proteins of rice shoots and germanium (Ge) was investigated. The proteins in mixtures of aqueous extracts of rice shoots and radioactive germanium (⁶⁸GeO₂) were fractionated. The binding of radioactivity to the proteins was observed even after 5 successive fractionation steps from the original mixtures. At the final fractionation step using polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, a constant proportionality between protein concentration and associated radioactivity was found in most samples although not all. These results indicate that the binding of ⁸⁸Ge to proteins is not due to the simple adsorption by proteins.