植物和土壤在高CO2下储存碳之间的权衡
C Terrer1,2, R P Phillips3, B A Hungate4,5
1Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA. terrer@stanford.edu.
Nature
|March 25, 2021
概括
陆地生态系统吸收大量的二氧化碳 (CO2). 然而,大气中的二氧化碳增加对土壤有机碳 (SOC) 的影响在各个生态系统中不同,影响未来的气候预测.
科学领域:
- 环境科学
- 生态学
- 气候科学
背景情况:
- 陆地生态系统作为一个重要的碳汇,吸收大约30%的人为二氧化碳 (CO2) 的年度排放.
- 由于植物生物质和土壤有机碳 (SOC) 对高二氧化碳 (eCO2) 的反应不同,这种碳汇的长期稳定性是不确定的.
- 之前的实验表明eCO2对SOC的影响不一致,导致气候变化模型存在重大不确定性.
研究的目的:
- 综合众多eCO2实验的数据,以了解影响SOC库存反应的因素.
- 在eCO2条件下确定植物生物质刺激和SOC储存之间的关系.
- 评估生态系统模型在复制观察到的SOC动态中的性能.
主要方法:
- 进行了一项元分析,综合了全球108项eCO2实验的数据.
- 该研究分析了eCO2引起的植物生物质和SOC库存之间的关系.
- 使用统计分析来确定SOC反应的关键驱动因素,并比较草原和森林之间的结果.
主要成果:
- 发现了一个重要的权衡:eCO2对植物生物质的强烈刺激导致了SOC储量的减少,而弱刺激导致SOC的增加.
- 这种权衡与植物营养获取策略有关,在这种策略中,增加生物质可能会以牺牲SOC为代价.
- 总体而言,SOC库存在草原上增加 (8%±2%),但在森林中没有显著变化 (0%±2%),尽管森林的生物质增加更大.
结论:
- 这些发现揭示了在二氧化碳水平上升下影响陆地碳储存的关键机制.
- 目前生态系统模型未能捕捉到这种生物质-SOC的权衡,因此需要对准确的气候预测进行修订.
- 了解这些动态对于预测陆地生态系统未来缓解气候变化的能力至关重要.
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