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Contrasting effects of long-term acid rain simulation on temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and enzymatic activities in a subtropical forest

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to investigate the long-term effects of acid rain simulation (ARS) on soil respiration (Rs) components and enzymatic activities.

Materials and methods

An 8-year field ARS experiment was conducted in a subtropical forest. A trenching method was used to partition Rs into heterotrophic respiration (Rh) and autotrophic respiration (Ra). Soil urease, invertase, and catalase activities were measured after long-term ARS application.

Results and discussion

The repeated-measures ANOVA indicated that there was no significant (P > 0.05) difference in annual mean Rs (or Rh) between SAR plots from March 2016 to February 2018. Rs was significantly (P < 0.001) higher than Rh for each specific ARS treatment across the 2 years. There were no significant (P > 0.05) differences in Q10 of Rs (or Rh) between ARS treatments, indicating that the ARS effect on Q10 was not significant. ARS induced a decline in soil urease activity in both untrenched and trenched plots on most measurement dates. The soil invertase and catalase activities were significantly (P < 0.05) reduced by ARS manipulation but had temporal variations. Long-term ARS did not significantly change Rs in the untrenched plots or Rh in the trenched plots in this subtropical forest ecosystem.

Conclusions

Compared with soil respiration, which is a process involving more biological groups, soil enzymes were more vulnerable to the long-term ARS.

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This study was sponsored by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 41775151) and the Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province (2015-NY-012).

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    Shutao Chen

  2. School of Applied Meteorology, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, 210044, China

    Shutao Chen, Lu Sun, Xu Zhang, Xiaoshuai Shen, Yifan Liu & Jingquan Ren

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Chen, S., Sun, L., Zhang, X. et al. Contrasting effects of long-term acid rain simulation on temperature sensitivity of soil respiration and enzymatic activities in a subtropical forest. J Soils Sediments 20, 412–424 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11368-019-02385-5

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