Effect of different dolomitic limestone dosages on soil respiration in a mid-altitudinal Norway spruce stand

Rosíková, Jana; Dařenová, Eva; Kučera, Aleš; Volařík, Daniel; Vranová, Valerie

doi:10.3832/ifor2894-012

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“…5a-c). The third application of lime (in August 2020) consequently elicited a pronounced and prolonged increase in soil respiration rates at all three sites (Rosikova et al, 2019). These increases were primarily driven by biotic sources, with only a very minor contribution (< 3 %) coming from lime-derived CO 2 (Fig.…”

Section: Liming Effects On Soil Respiration and Soil Methane Fluxesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests

Straaten

Kulp²,

Martinson³

et al. 2023

SOIL

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Abstract. Forest liming is a management tool that has and continues to be used extensively across northern Europe to counteract acidification processes from anthropogenic sulfur and nitrogen (N) deposition. In this study, we quantified how liming affects soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks and attempt to disentangle the mechanisms responsible for the often contrasting processes that regulate net soil carbon (C) fluxes. Using a paired plot experimental design we compared SOC stocks in limed plots with adjacent unlimed control plots at 28 experimental sites to 60 cm soil depth in mature broadleaf and coniferous forests across Germany. Historical soil data from a subset of the paired experiment plots were analyzed to assess how SOC stocks in both control and limed plots changed between 1990 and 2019. Overall, we found that forest floor C stocks have been accumulating over time in the control plots. Liming however largely offset organic layer buildup in the L/Of layer, and forest floor C stocks remained unchanged over time in the limed plots. This, in turn, meant that nutrients remained mobile and were not bound in soil organic matter complexes. Results from the paired plot analysis showed that forest floor C stocks were significantly lower in limed plots than the control (−34 %, −8.4 ± 1.7 Mg C ha−1) but did not significantly affect SOC stocks in the mineral soil, when all sites are pooled together. In the forest floor layers, SOC stocks exhibited an exponential decrease with increasing pH, highlighting how lime-induced improvements in the biochemical environment stimulate organic matter (OM) decomposition. Nevertheless, for both forest floor and mineral soils, the magnitude and direction of the belowground C changes hinged directly on the inherent site characteristics, namely, forest type (conifer versus broadleaf), soil pH, soil texture, and the soil SOC stocks. On the other hand, SOC stock decreases were often offset by other processes that fostered C accumulation, such as improved forest productivity or increased carbon stabilization, which correspondingly translated to an overall variable response by SOC stocks, particularly in the mineral soil. Lastly, we measured soil carbon dioxide (CO2) and soil methane (CH4) flux immediately after a re-liming event at three of the experimental sites. Here, we found that (1) liming doubles CH4 uptake in the long-term; (2) soil organic matter mineralization processes respond quickly to liming, even though the duration and size of the CO2 flush varied between sites; and (3) lime-derived CO2 contributed very little to total CO2 emissions over the measurement period (determined using stable isotope approaches).

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Section: Liming Effects On Soil Respiration and Soil Methane Fluxesmentioning

confidence: 88%

Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests

Straaten

Kulp²,

Martinson³

et al. 2023

SOIL

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“…The environmental limitation of microbial activity was also discussed in a study by Rosíková et al [82]. In that work, the amelioration effect (effect of forest management practice) expressed as CO 2 efflux from the soil surface was obscured by environmental limitations such as drought and low temperatures.…”

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confidence: 91%

Soil Microbial Functional Diversity under the Single-Season Influence of Traditional Forest Management in a Sessile Oak Forest of Central Europe

Kučera

Holík

Rosíková

et al. 2021

Forests

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This one-year study focuses on the responses of a soil environment to the implementation of traditional forest management practices in oak–hornbeam stands with the following treatments: cut (C), cut + litter raking (CR), cut + grazing (CG), cut + litter raking + grazing (CRG) and control (Ctrl). The cut was conducted in 2018 through extremely heavy thinning. In autumn of 2017 and 2018, we sampled the soils, focusing on microbial functional diversity (FD) assessments using BIOLOG EcoplateTM. After one season, the FD was the highest in the Ctrl stand and the lowest in the CRG stand. Furthermore, we detected significant seasonal differences in soil reaction, nitrate nitrogen content, phosphatase activity and microbial biomass among the treatments. In particular, the Ctrl stand was defined via FD indices and biochemical and biological soil properties that contrasted mainly with those of the CRG stand defined by the content of mineral nitrogen forms. The soil properties did not differ substantially in the remaining treatments. Of the 31 carbon sources defining FD, 6 were treatment-specific (putrescine, L-arginine, L-serine, L-threonine, D-cellobiose and glycogen), while the remaining carbon sources mainly displayed either uniform high or low activity across the treatments.

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Harvesting intensity and tree species affect soil respiration in uneven-aged Dinaric forest stands

Čater

Dařenová

Simončić

2021

Forest Ecology and Management

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Effect of different dolomitic limestone dosages on soil respiration in a mid-altitudinal Norway spruce stand

Cited by 3 publications

References 39 publications

Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests

Forest liming in the face of climate change: the implications of restorative liming for soil organic carbon in mature German forests

Soil Microbial Functional Diversity under the Single-Season Influence of Traditional Forest Management in a Sessile Oak Forest of Central Europe

Harvesting intensity and tree species affect soil respiration in uneven-aged Dinaric forest stands

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