期刊
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
卷 26, 期 6, 页码 3726-3737出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15100
关键词
C-13 NMR; anaerobic; anoxic; C3; C4 plant; carbon stable isotope; DOC; iron reduction; litter decomposition; mineral-associated carbon; oxygen
资金
- NSF [DEB-1457805, EAR-1331841]
Oxygen (O-2) limitation is generally understood to suppress oil carbon (C) decomposition and is a key mechanism impacting terrestrial C stocks under global change. Yet, O-2 limitation may differentially impact kinetic or thermodynamic versus physicochemical C protection mechanisms, challenging our understanding of how soil C may respond to climate-mediated changes in O-2 dynamics. Although O-2 limitation may suppress decomposition of new litter C inputs, release of physicochemically protected C due to iron (Fe) reduction could potentially sustain soil C losses. To test this trade-off, we incubated two disparate upland soils that experience periodic O-2 limitation-a tropical rainforest Oxisol and a temperate cropland Mollisol-with added litter under either aerobic (control) or anaerobic conditions for 1 year. Anoxia suppressed total C loss by 27% in the Oxisol and by 41% in the Mollisol relative to the control, mainly due to the decrease in litter-C decomposition. However, anoxia sustained or even increased decomposition of native soil-C (11.0% vs. 12.4% in the control for the Oxisol and 12.5% vs. 5.3% in the control for the Mollisol, in terms of initial soil C mass), and it stimulated losses of metal- or mineral-associated C. Solid-state C-13 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy demonstrated that anaerobic conditions decreased protein-derived C but increased lignin- and carbohydrate-C relative to the control. Our results indicate a trade-off between physicochemical and kinetic/thermodynamic C protection mechanisms under anaerobic conditions, whereby decreased decomposition of litter C was compensated by more extensive loss of mineral-associated soil C in both soils. This challenges the common assumption that anoxia inherently protects soil C and illustrates the vulnerability of mineral-associated C under anaerobic events characteristic of a warmer and wetter future climate.
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