Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest

Abstract Soil respiration (SR) in forests contributes significant carbon dioxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems and is highly sensitive to environmental changes, including soil temperature, soil moisture, microbial community, surface litter, and vegetation type. Indeed, a small change in SR m...

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Autores principales: Chadtip Rodtassana, Weerapong Unawong, Siriphong Yaemphum, Wirong Chanthorn, Sakonvan Chawchai, Anuttara Nathalang, Warren Y. Brockelman, Pantana Tor‐ngern
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5d165eeeb1bd4e21888fc5e24775a4712021-11-08T17:10:41ZDifferent responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest2045-775810.1002/ece3.8248https://doaj.org/article/5d165eeeb1bd4e21888fc5e24775a4712021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8248https://doaj.org/toc/2045-7758Abstract Soil respiration (SR) in forests contributes significant carbon dioxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems and is highly sensitive to environmental changes, including soil temperature, soil moisture, microbial community, surface litter, and vegetation type. Indeed, a small change in SR may have large impacts on the global carbon balance, further influencing feedbacks to climate change. Thus, detailed characterization of SR responses to changes in environmental conditions is needed to accurately estimate carbon dioxide emissions from forest ecosystems. However, data for such analyses are still limited, especially in tropical forests of Southeast Asia where various stages of forest succession exist due to previous land‐use changes. In this study, we measured SR and some environmental factors including soil temperature (ST), soil moisture (SM), and organic matter content (OM) in three successional tropical forests in both wet and dry periods. We also analyzed the relationships between SR and these environmental variables. Results showed that SR was higher in the wet period and in older forests. Although no response of SR to ST was found in younger forest stages, SR of the old‐growth forest significantly responded to ST, plausibly due to the nonuniform forest structure, including gaps, that resulted in a wide range of ST. Across forest stages, SM was the limiting factor for SR in the wet period, whereas SR significantly varied with OM in the dry period. Overall, our results indicated that the responses of SR to environmental factors varied temporally and across forest succession. Nevertheless, these findings are still preliminary and call for detailed investigations on SR and its variations with environmental factors in Southeast Asian tropical forests where patches of successional stages dominate.Chadtip RodtassanaWeerapong UnawongSiriphong YaemphumWirong ChanthornSakonvan ChawchaiAnuttara NathalangWarren Y. BrockelmanPantana Tor‐ngernWileyarticleforest successionsoil moisturesoil organic mattersoil respirationsoil temperaturetropical forestsEcologyQH540-549.5ENEcology and Evolution, Vol 11, Iss 21, Pp 15430-15443 (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic forest succession
soil moisture
soil organic matter
soil respiration
soil temperature
tropical forests
Ecology
QH540-549.5
spellingShingle forest succession
soil moisture
soil organic matter
soil respiration
soil temperature
tropical forests
Ecology
QH540-549.5
Chadtip Rodtassana
Weerapong Unawong
Siriphong Yaemphum
Wirong Chanthorn
Sakonvan Chawchai
Anuttara Nathalang
Warren Y. Brockelman
Pantana Tor‐ngern
Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
description Abstract Soil respiration (SR) in forests contributes significant carbon dioxide emissions from terrestrial ecosystems and is highly sensitive to environmental changes, including soil temperature, soil moisture, microbial community, surface litter, and vegetation type. Indeed, a small change in SR may have large impacts on the global carbon balance, further influencing feedbacks to climate change. Thus, detailed characterization of SR responses to changes in environmental conditions is needed to accurately estimate carbon dioxide emissions from forest ecosystems. However, data for such analyses are still limited, especially in tropical forests of Southeast Asia where various stages of forest succession exist due to previous land‐use changes. In this study, we measured SR and some environmental factors including soil temperature (ST), soil moisture (SM), and organic matter content (OM) in three successional tropical forests in both wet and dry periods. We also analyzed the relationships between SR and these environmental variables. Results showed that SR was higher in the wet period and in older forests. Although no response of SR to ST was found in younger forest stages, SR of the old‐growth forest significantly responded to ST, plausibly due to the nonuniform forest structure, including gaps, that resulted in a wide range of ST. Across forest stages, SM was the limiting factor for SR in the wet period, whereas SR significantly varied with OM in the dry period. Overall, our results indicated that the responses of SR to environmental factors varied temporally and across forest succession. Nevertheless, these findings are still preliminary and call for detailed investigations on SR and its variations with environmental factors in Southeast Asian tropical forests where patches of successional stages dominate.
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author Chadtip Rodtassana
Weerapong Unawong
Siriphong Yaemphum
Wirong Chanthorn
Sakonvan Chawchai
Anuttara Nathalang
Warren Y. Brockelman
Pantana Tor‐ngern
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Siriphong Yaemphum
Wirong Chanthorn
Sakonvan Chawchai
Anuttara Nathalang
Warren Y. Brockelman
Pantana Tor‐ngern
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title Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
title_short Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
title_full Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
title_fullStr Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
title_full_unstemmed Different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a Southeast Asian forest
title_sort different responses of soil respiration to environmental factors across forest stages in a southeast asian forest
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