The alpine meadow, as one of the typical vegetation types on the Tibetan Plateau, is one of the most sensitive terrestrial ecosystems to climate warming. However, how climate warming affects the carbon cycling of the alpine meadow on the Tibetan Plateau is not very dear. A field experiment under controlled experimental warming and clipping conditions was conducted in an alpine meadow on the Northern Tibetan Plateau since July 2008. Open top chambers （0TCs） were used to simulate climate warming. The main objective of this study was to examine the responses of ecosystem respiration （Reco） and its temperature sensitivity to experimental warming and clipping at daily time scale. Therefore, we measured Reco once or twice a month from July to September in 2010, from June to September in 2011 and from August to September in 2012. Air temperature dominated daily variation of Reco whether or not experimental warming and clipping were present. Air temperature was exponentially correlated with Reco and it could significantly explain 58-96% variation of Redo at daily time scale. Experimental warming and clipping decreased daily mean Reco by 5.8-37.7% and -11.9-23.0%, respectively, although not all these changes were significant. Experimental warming tended to decrease the temperature sensitivity of Reco, whereas clipping tended to increase the temperature sensitivity of Reco at daily time scale. Our findings suggest that Reco wasmainly controlled by air temperature and may acclimate to climate warming due to its lower temperature sensitivity under experimental warming at daily time scale.
FU GangSHEN Zhen-xiZHANG Xian-zhouYU Cheng-qunZHOU Yu-tingLI Yun-longYANG Peng-wan
利用MODIS卫星的陆地表面温度数据,模拟了2004年和2005年生长季（5-10月）当雄县高寒草甸的土壤呼吸、土壤异养呼吸和根系呼吸,以期为土壤呼吸空间尺度扩展提供相应的基础。结果表明：2004年生长季的土壤呼吸、土壤异养呼吸和根系呼吸总量分别为1059.11,393.80,665.31 g CO2.m-2,而2005年生长季的则分别为1114.77,423.34,691.43 g CO2.m-2。土壤呼吸、土壤异养呼吸和根系呼吸都有着明显的季节变化,即第153 d前后开始迅速增加并保持较高水平,至第241 d左右开始迅速下降。根系呼吸占土壤呼吸的比例为48%~69%,并随着季节而发生变化。土壤呼吸和土壤异养呼吸的Q10值范围分别是1.13~1.17和1.12~1.27。
With the aggravation of global change, the response and adaptation of the unique ecosystem in Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to global change have been increasingly concerned by scientific community day by day, which makes the sensitivity and fragility of this ecosystem in response to global change widely recognized by scholars. On the basis of introducing the present research process on the degenerate mechanisim, measures of and approaches to recovery, carbon cycle and primary productivity toward global change, we put forward several propositions on studying the alpine grassland ecosystem in Northern Tibetan Plateau.
