Cooling has stimulated soil carbon storage in forest ecosystems.

Environ Res

CAS Key Laboratory of Mountain Ecological Restoration and Bioresource Utilization and Ecological Restoration of Biodiversity Conservation, Chengdu Institute of Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chengdu, 610041, China. Electronic address:

Published: March 2024

The interactive effect of soil cooling and nitrogen (N) addition can accurately simulate climatic and anthropogenic effects on terrestrial and other land-based ecosystems, but direct empirical measurements on the effects of cooling and N addition on soil carbon (C) and N are lacking. Hence, transplanting soils into colder regions was used to evaluate the effects of cooling and N addition on soil C and N. We used PVCs of 30 cm in height and 8 cm in diameter to extract soil samples. Soil C and N were significantly (P < 0.05) increased by transplanting soils into colder regions. In contrast, cooling has insignificantly (P > 0.05) increased the soil dissolved organic C (DOC) and dissolved organic (DON), but the effect was negatively significant on soil pH compared to the C/N ratio. Similarly, N addition significantly increased the measured soil N stock. However, the effect was negatively significant on soil pH (P < 0.05) compared to the C/N ratio (P > 0.05). Nevertheless, the interaction of cooling and N addition did not affect the soil C and N storage. A similar effect was observed on the soil DOC and DON. The results presented here illustrate that transplanting soils into colder regions and N deposition has perfectly simulated the effects of climate-forcing factors on soil C and N storage in terrestrial and other land-based ecosystems. Accordingly, this study suggests that low temperatures have stimulated the accumulation of the measured soil organic and dissolved properties, but the effect is less consequential when low temperature interacts with N addition in high-elevation areas where ecosystem structures and functions are limited by temperature and may serve as a baseline for future research on land feedbacks to the climate system.

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