drivers of soil respiration of root and microbial ... - Unitus DSpace
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Partitioning plots were installed both, in MG <strong>and</strong> UM plots. Inside each fence were placed 2<br />
complete partitioning plots: one in 2006 <strong>and</strong> one in 2007, the same was done for managed <strong>soil</strong><br />
outside the fences.<br />
Modified after Leake et al. (2004) <strong>and</strong> Moyano et al. (2007, 2008) <strong>root</strong>-exclusion technique<br />
was used to partition the CO2 efflux from <strong>soil</strong>. A complete partitioning plot is shown in Fig.2<br />
Fig.2 Schematic description <strong>of</strong> the modified <strong>root</strong>-exclusion technique. One complete partitioning plot is<br />
represented<br />
• Soil cores, 20 cm in diameter <strong>and</strong> 30 cm deep were sampled; the <strong>soil</strong> was sieved through 4<br />
mm mesh <strong>and</strong> all the <strong>root</strong>s were carefully removed from the <strong>soil</strong>.<br />
• Half <strong>of</strong> the sampled <strong>soil</strong> was placed to the nylon meshes with 1µm pore size <strong>and</strong> returned to<br />
the study site. The CO2 measured from these meshes was considered as <strong>respiration</strong><br />
associated with <strong>microbial</strong> decomposition <strong>of</strong> SOM – <strong>microbial</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Rh) after<br />
disturbance.<br />
• Another half <strong>of</strong> the sampled <strong>and</strong> sieved <strong>soil</strong> was placed back without any barriers for the<br />
<strong>root</strong>s growing (bags with 1.0cm pore size). The CO2 efflux, coming from these bags is a<br />
sum <strong>of</strong> <strong>microbial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>root</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Rh+Ra).<br />
• Root-derived <strong>respiration</strong> was calculated as a difference between these two treatments:<br />
((Rh+Ra)-Rh).<br />
• Total <strong>soil</strong> <strong>respiration</strong> (Rs) measured from the undisturbed <strong>soil</strong> was used as a control <strong>and</strong> in<br />
Summarizing:<br />
1µm pore<br />
mesh<br />
combination with <strong>root</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> was used to calculate the real <strong>microbial</strong>-derived<br />
<strong>respiration</strong>, excluding the effect <strong>of</strong> <strong>soil</strong> sieving: (Rs – Ra).<br />
1µm = <strong>microbial</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Rh), after disturbing<br />
1 cm = sum <strong>of</strong> <strong>microbial</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>root</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Rh+Ra)<br />
1cm - 1µm = <strong>root</strong>-derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Ra)<br />
No mesh = control for total <strong>respiration</strong> (Rs)<br />
1 cm pore<br />
mesh<br />
Control - Ra = <strong>microbial</strong> derived <strong>respiration</strong> (Rh), real one<br />
Rh<br />
Ra+Rh control