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Response of Soil Respiration, Temperature and Moisture to the Harvest of a Sessile Oak Forest\n
Dařenová, Eva
Forest management, particularly thinning and harvesting measures, has a significant impact on the forest carbon balance. In this study, we investigated the effect of the harvest of a sessile oak forest on soil respiration as a main source of CO2 emissions in forest ecosystems. Soil respiration, temperature and moisture were measured during the two growing seasons, one before and one after the harvest applied on six out of nine studied plots in April 2018. The harvest increased soil temperature by up to 6 °C. Soil moisture did not differ between the plots in 2017, but it was higher in the harvested plots compared to the control in 2018. In the first half of the growing season 2018, the difference between the control and harvested plots ranged between 5 and 100 % in proportion while in the second half the differences decreased only up to 5%. Soil respiration ranged between 1.2 and 3.3 µmol CO2 m-2s-1 during 2017 with no difference between the following variants. In 2018, soil respiration ranged between 1.2 and 7.0 µmol CO2 m-2s-1 and it tended to be higher in the harvested plots compared to the control. The exception was observed shortly after heavy rainfall on 5th September when soil respiration in the control significantly exceeded that in the harvested plots.
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Soil Respiration of the Spruce Forest during Four Years after the Application of the Different Dolomitic Limestone Dosage
Rosíková, J. ; Dařenová, Eva ; Kučera, A.
The study focuses on an in situ response of soil respiration at 10 °C (R10) of the Norway spruce monoculture to the application of the different dolomitic limestone dosages (0, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9 a 26 t.ha-1) over a period of four years. Soil respiration was measured within the growing seasons 2016 – 2019. Moreover, the pH was determined in the H and Ah horizons during each season. The effect of liming on soil respiration was statistically significant during all the seasons except for 2017. The greatest effect was observed within the first season after liming. In May 2016, R10 in the limed plots increased as much as by 97% compared to the non-limed ones. However, soil respiration did not increase in the direct proportion to the liming intensity. We found out the correlation between soil respiration and the micrometeorological parameters (temperature and moisture) when both low temperature moisture limited soil respiration. Due to the strong soil buffering capacity, the small effect of liming on the soil acidity was observed in the first study season. In the following seasons, the differences in the pH among the plots with the different liming intensity started to increase, which was, however, observed only in the H horizon. The substantial increase in the soil microbial activity accompanied with faster respiration after liming can lead to the increased threat of rapid mineralization and the loss of soil organic matter with all its negative impacts
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