title: Emission characteristics of carbon dioxide in the semiarid Stipa grandis steppe in Inner Mongolia, China.
abstract: Using the static opaque chamber method, the soil respiration rates (SR) were measured through the continuous experiments in situ in semiarid Stipa grandis steppe in Xilin River Basin of Inner Mongolia, China from June 2001 to June 2003, in parallel, the difference between the SR and the ecosystem respiration rates (TER) were compared. The results indicated that the seasonal variations of the SR and TER were obvious with higher emissions in growing season and a relatively low efflux level in non-growing season, furthermore, the negative effluxes were found in the observation site in winter; the annual CO2 efflux of total ecosystem ranged from 160.5 gC/(m2 x a) to 162.8 gC/(m2 x a) and that of soil ranged from 118.7 gC/(m2 x a) to 152.3 gC/(m2 x a). The annual SR accounted for about 74.0% to 93.5% of the annual TER, but the results of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) indicated that the difference between the annual average TER and SR did not reach the significance level of 0.05. The TER was under similar environmental controls as SR, in growing seasons of drought years, the variations of soil moisture at 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm depth could account for 79.1%-95.6% of the changes of the SR and TER, but in non-growing season, more than 75% of the variations of the SR and TER could be explained by the changes of the ground temperature of soil surface layers.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China. dongys@igsnrr.ac.cn
authors.forename: Yun-She
authors.initials: YS
authors.lastname: Dong
authors.forename: Yu-Chun
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Qi
authors.forename: Ji-Yuan
authors.initials: JY
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Domroes
authors.forename: Li-Xin
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Yuan-Bo
authors.initials: YB
authors.lastname: Geng
authors.forename: Xing-Ren
authors.initials: XR
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Xiao-Hong
authors.initials: XH
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ming-Feng
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D002245:Carbon Dioxide / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism*; D002681:China; D017753:Ecosystem; D004784:Environmental Monitoring / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012621:Seasons; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D002245:Carbon Dioxide