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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

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