TY  - JOUR
AU  - Yang, Kaijun
AU  - Peng, Changhui
AU  - Peñuelas, Josep
AU  - Kardol, Paul
AU  - Li, Zhijie
AU  - Zhang, Li
AU  - Ni, Xiangyin
AU  - Yue, Kai
AU  - Tan, Bo
AU  - Yin, Rui
AU  - Xu, Zhenfeng
TI  - Immediate and carry-over effects of increased soil frost on soil respiration and microbial activity in a spruce forest
JO  - Soil biology & biochemistry
VL  - 135
SN  - 0038-0717
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
PB  - Elsevier Science
M1  - FZJ-2019-04137
SP  - 51 - 59
PY  - 2019
AB  - Increased soil frost associated with winter climate change could have immediate and carry-over effects on biological processes in high-altitude forest soils, but the nature of these processes remain poorly understood. We conducted a snow-exclusion experiment to investigate the immediate and cross-seasonal effects of increased soil frost on soil CO2 efflux and biological activity in a subalpine spruce forest on the eastern Tibetan Plateau, China. The increased frost reduced soil CO2 efflux by ∼15 and ∼19% in the winters of 2015/2016 and 2016/2017, respectively. Increased frost also tended to decrease soil basal respiration, the amount of microbial phospholipid fatty acids and the activities of enzymes involved in soil carbon cycling during the winters. Winter soil nitrogen availabilities were higher in the snow-exclusion treatment than in the control plots. However, these effects did not carry over to the following growing season. Our results suggest that increased frost reduces winter soil respiration by direct environmental effects (e.g. soil temperature) and indirect biological processes (e.g. microbial biomass and activity), whereas increased frost did not induce any cross-seasonal effects. These findings underscore the ecological importance of seasonal snowpack and microbe-associated carbon processes in subalpine forests where winter snowfall is decreasing substantially.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000477689700008
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.soilbio.2019.04.012
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/864341
ER  -