The responses of soil respiration to exogenous carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) inputs under changing precipitation patterns were explored via in-situ field experiments. In 2014, a typical temperate grassland on the Xilin River of Inner Mongolia was taken as the research site, and soil respiration was measured in the following treatments:addition of water alone (CK), addition of water + N fertilizer[CN, 2.5 g·(m·a)], addition of water + labile C[CG, 24 g·(m·a)], and addition of water + N fertilizer+ labile C[CNG, 2.5 g·(m·a)+24 g·(m·a) ], and the correlations of soil respiration with soil temperature, soil moisture, soil dissolved organic C (DOC), and soil microbial biomass C (MBC) were analyzed. During the first water application event (FWE) with the frequency of natural precipitation, cumulative CO efflux over 168 hours significantly increased in the CG and CNG treatments, whereas there was no such change in the CN treatment. In addition, soil MBC contents in the CG and CNG treatments were significantly higher than that in the CK and CN treatments, and the correlation of average soil respiration rate with soil MBC content among these treatments was positively significant (<0.05). In contrast with during the FWE, cumulative CO efflux over 168 hours and soil MBC content significantly decreased during the second water application event (SWE) with no natural precipitation (<0.05), whereas soil DOC content significantly increased (<0.05). The cumulative CO efflux over 168 hours significantly decreases in the CN and CG treatments (<0.05).During both the water application events, soil respiration rate had a positive relationship with soil temperature and soil volume water content (<0.05). Therefore, it is proposed that the distribution of natural precipitation influences soil water content, which controls the effects of exogenous C and N on soil respiration in semiarid grassland ecosystems.

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