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Factors affecting soil respiration in reference with temperature’s role in the global scale

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Soil respiration is CO2 evolution process from soil to atmosphere, mainly produced by soil micro-organism and plant roots. It is affected not only by biological factors (vegetation, micro-organism, etc.) and environmental factors (temperature, moisture, pH, etc.), but also more and more strongly by man-made factors. Based on literature survey, main factors affecting soil respiration were reviewed. The relationship of soil respiration to latitude and to mean annual temperature were analyzed by using the data measured from forest vegetation in the world. As a result, soil respiration rate decreased exponentially with an increase of latitude, and increased with increasing temperature. Following the relationship between soil respiration and temperature, Q10 value (law of Van Hoff) was obtained as 1.57 in the global scale.

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  1. Liu Shaohui

    Present address: Department of Biology, West Virginia, USA

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  1. Department of Urban & Environmental Science, Peking University, 100871, Beijing, P. R. China

    Fang Jingyun & Zhao Kun

  2. Research Center for Eco-Environment Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100085, Beijing, P. R. China

    Fang Jingyun & Liu Shaohui

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This project was supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China to FJY (No. 3940003).

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Fang, J., Zhao, K. & Liu, S. Factors affecting soil respiration in reference with temperature’s role in the global scale. Chin. Geograph.Sc. 8, 246–255 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11769-997-0018-9

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