[Text] / N. Gentsch [et al.]> // Biogeosciences. - 2015. -
Vol. 12,
Is. 14. - P4525-4542,
DOI 10.5194/bg-12-4525-2015. - Cited References:95. - Financial support was provided by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (03F0616A) within the ERANET EUROPOLAR project CryoCARB. N. Gentsch appreciates financial support by the Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst, and O. Shibistova and G. Guggenberger acknowledge funding by the Russian Ministry of Education and Science (no. 14.B25.31.0031). Contributions from P. Kuhry, G. Hugelius, and J. Palmtag were supported by the Swedish Research Council within the ERANET EUROPOLAR project CryoCARB. Special thanks go to Claudia Borchers for in-depth statistical discussions, Charles Tarnocai for helpful comments on soil descriptions, and all members of the CryoCARB project for the incredible team spirit. We acknowledge support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and the Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Universitat Hannover.
. - ISSN 1726-4170. - ISSN 1726-4189
РУБ Ecology + Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Аннотация: In permafrost soils, the temperature regime and the resulting cryogenic processes are important determinants of the storage of organic carbon (OC) and its small-scale spatial variability. For cryoturbated soils, there is a lack of research assessing pedon-scale heterogeneity in OC stocks and the transformation of functionally different organic matter (OM) fractions, such as particulate and mineral-associated OM. Therefore, pedons of 28 Turbels were sampled in 5m wide soil trenches across the Siberian Arctic to calculate OC and total nitrogen (TN) stocks based on digital profile mapping. Density fractionation of soil samples was performed to distinguish between particulate OM (light fraction, LF, 1.6 g cm(-3)), mineral associated OM (heavy fraction, HF, 1.6 g cm(-3)), and a mobilizable dissolved pool (mobilizable fraction, MoF). Across all investigated soil profiles, the total OC storage was 20.2 +/- 8.0 kgm(-2) (mean +/- SD) to 100 cm soil depth. Fifty-four percent of this OC was located in the horizons of the active layer (annual summer thawing layer), showing evidence of cryoturbation, and another 35% was present in the upper permafrost. The HF-OC dominated the overall OC stocks (55 %), followed by LF-OC (19% in mineral and 13% in organic horizons). During fractionation, approximately 13% of the OC was released as MoF, which likely represents a readily bioavailable OM pool. Cryogenic activity in combination with cold and wet conditions was the principle mechanism through which large OC stocks were sequestered in the subsoil (16.4 +/- 8.1 kgm(-2); all mineral B, C, and permafrost horizons). Approximately 22% of the subsoil OC stock can be attributed to LF material subducted by cryoturbation, whereas migration of soluble OM along freezing gradients appeared to be the principle source of the dominant HF (63 %) in the subsoil. Despite the unfavourable abiotic conditions, low C/N ratios and high delta C-13 values indicated substantial microbial OM transformation in the subsoil, but this was not reflected in altered LF and HF pool sizes. Partial least-squares regression analyses suggest that OC accumulates in the HF fraction due to co-precipitation with multivalent cations (Al, Fe) and association with poorly crystalline iron oxides and clay minerals. Our data show that, across all permafrost pedons, the mineral-associated OM represents the dominant OM fraction, suggesting that the HF-OC is the OM pool in permafrost soils on which changing soil conditions will have the largest impact.
WOS Держатели документа: Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Soil Sci, Hannover, Germany.
Univ Halle Wittenberg, Soil Sci, D-06108 Halle, Germany.
Univ Vienna, Dept Ecogen & Syst Biol, Vienna, Austria.
Univ South Bohemia, Dept Ecosyst Biol, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
Aarhus Univ, Ctr Geomicrobiol, Aarhus, Denmark.
Stockholm Univ, Dept Phys Geog & Quaternary Geol, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, Cent Siberian Bot Garden, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Univ Vienna, Dept Microbiol & Ecosyst Sci, Vienna, Austria.
Austrian Polar Res Inst, Vienna, Austria.
Univ New Hampshire, Dept Nat Resources & Environm, Durham, NH 03824 USA.
Russian Acad Sci, Siberian Branch, VN Sukachev Inst Forest, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.
Univ Gothenburg, Dept Earth Sci, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Доп.точки доступа: Gentsch, N.; Mikutta, R.; Alves, R. J. E.; Barta, J.; Capek, P.; Gittel, A.; Hugelius, G.; Kuhry, P.; Lashchinskiy, N.; Palmtag, J.; Richter, A.; Santruckova, H.; Schnecker, J.; Shibistova, O.; Urich, T.; Wild, B.; Guggenberger, G.; German Federal Ministry of Education and Research within ERANET EUROPOLAR CryoCARB [03F0616A]; Evangelisches Studienwerk Villigst; Russian Ministry of Education and Science [14.B25.31.0031]; Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft; Open Access Publishing Fund of the Leibniz Universitat Hannover