Modeling effects of temperature and precipitation on carbon characteristicsand GHGs emissions in Abies fabric forest of subalpine
LU Xuyang , CHENG Genwei , XIAO Feipeng , FAN Jihui
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Received May 31, 2007,Revised August 14, 2007, Accepted , Available online
Volume 20,2008,Pages 339-346
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Abies fabric forest in the eastern slope of Gongga mountain is one type of subalpine dark coniferous forests of southwestern
China. It is located on the southeastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet plateau and is sensitive to climatic changes. A process-oriented
biogeochemical model, Forest-DNDC, was applied to simulate the e ects of climatic factors, temperature and precipitation changes on
carbon characteristics, and greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions in A. fabric forest. Validation indicated that the Forest-DNDC could be
used to predict carbon characteristics and GHGs emissions with reasonable accuracy. The model simulated carbon fluxes, soil carbon
dynamics, soil CO2, N2O, and NO emissions with the changes of temperature and precipitation conditions. The results showed that
with variation in the baseline temperature from –2℃ to +2℃, the gross primary production (GPP) and soil organic carbon (SOC)
increased, and the net primary production (NPP) and net ecosystem production (NEP) decreased because of higher respiration rate.
With increasing baseline precipitation the GPP and NPP increased slightly, and the NEP and SOC showed decreasing trend. Soil CO2
emissions increased with the increase of temperature, and CO2 emissions changed little with increased baseline precipitation. With
increased temperature and decreased baseline temperature, the total annual soil N2O emissions increased.With the variation of baseline
temperature from –2℃ to +2℃, the total annual soil NO emissions increased. The total annual N2O and NO emissions showed
increasing trends with the increase of precipitation. The biogeochemical simulation of the typical forest indicated that temperature
changes strongly a ected carbon fluxes, soil carbon dynamics, and soil GHGs emissions. The precipitation was not a principal factor
a ecting carbon fluxes, soil carbon dynamics, and soil CO2 emissions, but changes in precipitation could exert strong e ect on soil
N2O and NO emissions.
