As an important component of ecosystem carbon(C) budgets, soil carbon dioxide(CO_2) flux is determined by a combination of a series of biotic and abiotic processes. Although there is evidence showing that the abiotic component can be important in total soil CO_2 flux(R_(total)), its relative importance has never been systematically assessed. In this study, after comparative measurements of CO_2 fluxes on sterilized and natural soils, the R_(total) was partitioned into biotic flux(R_(biotic)) and abiotic flux(R_(abiotic)) across a broad range of land-cover types(including eight sampling sites: cotton field, hops field, halophyte garden, alkaline land, reservoir edge, native saline desert, dune crest and interdune lowland) in Gurbantunggut Desert, Xinjiang, China. The relative contribution of R_(abiotic) to R_(total), as well as the temperature dependency and predominant factors for R_(total), R_(biotic) and R_(abiotic), were analyzed. Results showed that R_(abiotic) always contributed to R_(total) for all of the eight sampling sites, but the degree or magnitude of contribution varied greatly. Specifically, the ratio of R_(abiotic) to R_(total) was very low in cotton field and hops field and very high in alkaline land and dune crest. Statistically, the ratio of R_(abiotic) to R_(total) logarithmically increased with decreasing R_(biotic), suggesting that R_(abiotic) strongly affected R_(total) when R_(biotic) was low. This pattern confirms that soil CO_2 flux is predominated by biotic processes in most soils, but abiotic processes can also be dominant when biotic processes are weak. On a diurnal basis, R_(abiotic) cannot result in net gain or net loss of CO_2, but its effect on transient CO_2 flux was significant. Temperature dependency of R_(total) varied among the eight sampling sites and was determined by the predominant processes(abiotic or biotic) of CO_2 flux. Specifically, R_(biotic) was driven by soil temperature while R_(abiotic) was regulated by the change in soil temperature(ΔT). Namely, declining tempe
以中国科学院新疆阜康荒漠生态站为试验平台,涡度相关技术为主要技术手段,对盐生荒漠生态系统进行长期水汽、CO_2通量观测,探讨年总降水量变化对盐生荒漠生态系统CO_2通量的影响。选取2个极端降水年份2006年(129 mm)和2007年(231 mm)比较CO_2通量的年内变化特征。2006年的碳吸收强度明显低于2007年,其最大碳吸收值分别为-0.4和-1.6 g C·m^(-2)·d^(-1),2006年的生长季长度为120 d,2007年为160 d。2006年表现为弱的碳吸收,其吸收值为-5 g C·m-2·a-1,群落总生产力与总呼吸分别为114.9和110.1 g C·m-2·a-1,2007年表现为较强的碳吸收,吸收值为-40 g C·m^(-2)·a^(-1),群落总生产力与总呼吸分别为257.7和218.2 g C·m^(-2)·a^(-1)。在干旱年份(2006年),群落总生产力与生态系统蒸散量的线性关系明显弱于湿润年份(2007年),二者的决定系数分别为0.40和0.71。对群落结构进行调查结果表明,在湿润年份,一年生草本植物的比例增加,可以充分利用降水,提高生态系统生产力。
