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NEW PHYTOLOGIST
卷 177, 期 3, 页码 676-687出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8137.2007.02300.x
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decomposition; Eucalyptus; soil respiration; stand-level root respiration; uncertainty analysis; up scaling
Root respiration at the level of a forest stand, an important component of ecosystem carbon balance, has been estimated in the past using various methods, most of them being indirect and relying on soil respiration measurements. On a 3-yr-old Eucalyptus stand in Congo-Brazzaville, a method involving the upscaling of direct measurements made on roots in situ, was compared with an independent approach using soil respiration measurements conducted on control and trenched plots (i.e. without living roots). The first estimation was based on the knowledge of root-diameter distribution and on a relationship between root diameter and specific respiration rates. The direct technique involving the upscaling of direct measurements on roots resulted in an estimation of 1.53 mu mol m(-2) s(-1), c. 50% higher than the mean estimation obtained with the indirect technique (1.05 mu mol m(-2) s(-1)). Monte-Carlo simulations showed that the results carried high uncertainty, but this uncertainty was no higher for the direct method than for the trenched-plot method. The reduction of the uncertainties on upscaled results requires more extensive knowledge of temperature sensitivity and more confidence and precision on the respiration rates and biomasses of fine roots.
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