通过氧酸盐碳酸盐通路捕获的CO2矿物质的二维建模:根系模型的影响
Hannah S Gatz-Miller1, Frédéric Gérard2, Danyang Su1
1Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada.
The Science of the total environment
|August 16, 2023
概括
这项研究模拟了伊罗科树的氧酸碳酸盐通路 (OCP),揭示了根的复杂性如何影响碳封存. 由树根驱动的土壤pH值变化会影响石的形成和长期的碳储存.
科学领域:
- 地质化学 地质化学
- 生态生态学 生态生态学
- 土壤科学 土壤科学
- 生物地质化学循环的过程
背景情况:
- 氧沙酸碳酸盐路径 (OCP) 通过氧沙酸盐氧化和石沉,在伊罗科树 (Milicia excelsa) 土壤中捕获大气中的碳.
- 了解土壤根动力学对于准确建模碳捕集过程至关重要.
- 之前的模型专注于简化根系或质量平衡,需要采用更动态的方法.
研究的目的:
- 调查根系模型复杂性的影响,以模拟170年来伊罗科树的OCP.
- 将简化的根模型与动态演变的根架构模型进行比较.
- 评估土壤-根相互作用对碳封存和石形成的影响.
主要方法:
- 开发和模拟具有不同根系复杂性的二维反应式运输模型.
- 对土壤pH值, (Ca) 和碳 (C) 质量平衡以及矿物沉 () 的分析.
- 评估水和溶解物运输,气体 (CO2,O2) 部分压力和土壤透性变化.
主要成果:
- 两种模型都证实了Ca和C质量平衡,有足够的Ca来自气候和地下水,用于石沉.
- 模拟显示了明显的高pH (OCP) 和低pH (总根延伸/TRE) 区域,表面的OCP发展类似.
- 模型的复杂性影响了地下OCP区域几何,这是由于局部根水吸收和溶液运输的变化造成的.
- 石沉可能降低了土壤的透性,限制了O2的进入和捕获CO2,影响了OCP的可持续性.
结论:
- 根系模型的复杂性影响了水和溶液运输的模拟,影响了OCP区域的地下几何.
- OCP是伊洛科树生态系统中重要的碳捕集机制,但其长期可持续性可能受到土壤性质变化的限制.
- 动态根架构建模提供了对土壤-根-碳循环反的更细致的理解.
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