Summary
Soil respiration was measured in different types of rain forest in West, South, and East Java, and in Sarawak, North Borneo. The altitude of the experimental sites varied from sea level to 1500 m. In keeping with the different amount and distribution of precipitation during the year, and due to the very different soil types, the vegetation varied from lowland to montane rain forest, teak forest, monsoon forest and heath forest. In all these forest types soil respiration values were of the same order of magnitude. They indicate an oxidation of 10 to 13 tons organic matter per hectar per year. In some of the experimental sites soil respiration was measured during the rainy as well as during the dry season. The values obtained justify extrapolation to a yearly average.
The difficulties connected with interpretation of the soil respiration values as equivalent to net production of the different forest types have been discussed.
Zusammenfassung
Die Bodenatmung wurde mit der Haber-Methode in Tieflandund Bergregenwäldern von West- und Südjava, ferner in Nordwestborneo gemessen. Weitere Messungen wurden in der Baumsavanne Ostjavas ausgeführt. Alle Resultate deuten darauf hin, daß im Boden organische Substanz im Ausmaß von 10 t/ha/Jahr abgebaut wird. In der Diskussion wird auf die begrenzte Genauigkeit der Methode hingewiesen, ferner auf die Schwierigkeiten, welche sich einer Interpretation der Bodenatmung als Maß für die Nettoproduktion des tropischen Regenwaldes entgegenstellen.
Die Messungen der Bodenatmung wurden ergänzt durch mikroklimatische Beobachtungen an den verschiedenen Standorten.
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Wanner, H., Soerohaldoko, S., Santosa et al. Die Bodenatmung in tropischen regenwäldern Südost-Asiens. Oecologia 12, 289–302 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00347568
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