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Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest

Bingwei Zhang
Yun Jiang
Youshi Wang
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Jiawei Li
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Xueli Huang
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Zufei Shu
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Buhang Li
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Chengjin Chu
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Abstract Soil carbon (C) cycling plays a critical role in regulating global C budget and atmospheric CO 2 concentrations. The ongoing global warming potentially accelerates soil C loss induced by microbial respiration (MR) and makes soil a large C source to the atmosphere. Quantifying the drivers of MR and its response to rising temperature (also called temperature sensitivity, Q 10 ) should be a high priority to improve the modeling and prediction of terrestrial C cycle under global warming. In this study, we applied a standardized soil sampling along nine gradients from 410 to 1080 m in a subtropical forest in southern China. All soil samples were incubated at varying temperature gradients (10–15–20–25–20–15°C) to measure MR and Q 10 every day for three weeks. Then all the measured MR was adjusted by the field temperature of each elevation gradient. Our objectives were to examine the response of MR and Q 10 to the environmental change induced by elevational gradients in the subtropical forest and then quantify their main drivers. We totally collected 54 abiotic and biotic factors relative to the MR and Q 10 . Our results showed that the incubated MR increased from low to high elevation. However, a significant elevation trend of the adjusted MR was not examined after adjusting the field temperature of sampling sites, due to the trade‐off between increasing soil C concentration and declining temperature as elevation increased. We further found that the elevational gradients did not cause significant change in Q 10 . The variation in Q 10 was negatively dominated by soil C quality, which declined nonlinearly along the elevation gradients. This study highlights the trade‐off between environment and biotic factors in determining soil C decomposition along elevational gradients. The uncertainty of MR measurements caused by unifying incubated temperature should not be ignored in future model development.
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hal-04510617 , version 1 (19-03-2024)

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Bingwei Zhang, Yun Jiang, Xianjin He, Youshi Wang, Jiawei Li, et al.. Nonsignificant elevational trends of soil microbial respiration and temperature sensitivity in a subtropical forest. Ecosphere, 2024, 15 (3), ⟨10.1002/ecs2.4801⟩. ⟨hal-04510617⟩
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