scholarly journals Effects of snow manipulation on larch trees in the taiga forest ecosystem in northeastern Siberia

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Shakhmatov ◽  
Shuhei Hashiguchi ◽  
Trofim C. Maximov ◽  
Atsuko Sugimoto
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Nitrogen Content ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Ammonium ◽  
Taiga Forest ◽  
Snow Manipulation ◽  
Soil Inorganic

AbstractChanges in winter precipitation (snow) may greatly affect vegetation by altering hydrological and biochemical processes. To understand the effects of changing snow cover depth and melt timing on the taiga forest ecosystem, a snow manipulation experiment was conducted in December 2015 at the Spasskaya Pad experimental larch forest in Eastern Siberia, which is characterized by a continental dry climate with extreme cold winters and hot summers. Variables including soil temperature and moisture, oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios of soil moisture and stem water, foliar nitrogen and carbon contents and their isotopes, phenology, and soil inorganic nitrogen were observed at snow removal (SNOW−), snow addition (SNOW+), and CONTROL plots. After snow manipulation, the soil temperature at the SNOW− plot decreased significantly compared to the CONTROL and SNOW+ plots. At SNOW− plot, snowmelt was earlier and soil temperature was higher than at other plots during spring because of low soil moisture caused by less snowmelt water. Despite the earlier snowmelt and higher soil temperature in the SNOW− plot in the early growing season, needle elongation was delayed. Leaf chemistry also differed between the CONTROL and SNOW− plots. The needle nitrogen content in the SNOW− plot was lower in the middle of July, whereas no difference was observed among the three plots in August. The soil inorganic nitrogen content of each plot corresponded to these results. The amount of soil ammonium was lower in the SNOW− plot than in the other plots at the end of July, however, once production started in August, the amount of soil ammonium in the three plots was comparable. Extremely low soil temperatures in winter and freeze–thaw cycles in spring and dry soil condition in spring and early summer at the SNOW− plot may have influenced the phenology and production of soil inorganic nitrogen.

scholarly journals Effects of Snow Manipulation on Larch Trees in the Taiga Forest Ecosystem in Northeastern Siberia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruslan Shakhmatov ◽  
Shuhei Hashiguchi ◽  
Trofim C. Maximov ◽  
Atsuko Sugimoto
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Soil Temperature ◽  
Nitrogen Content ◽  
Forest Ecosystem ◽  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Ammonium ◽  
Taiga Forest ◽  
Snow Manipulation ◽  
Soil Inorganic

Abstract Changes in winter precipitation (snow) may greatly affect vegetation by altering hydrological and biochemical processes. To understand the effects of changing snow cover depth and melt timing on the taiga forest ecosystem, a snow manipulation experiment was conducted in December 2015 at the Spasskaya Pad experimental larch forest in Eastern Siberia, which is characterized by a continental dry climate with extreme cold winters and hot summers. Variables including soil temperature and moisture, oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios of soil moisture and stem water, foliar nitrogen and carbon contents and their isotopes, phenology, and soil inorganic nitrogen were observed at snow removal (SNOW−), snow addition (SNOW+), and CONTROL plots. After snow manipulation, the soil temperature at the SNOW− plot decreased significantly compared to the CONTROL and SNOW+ plots. At SNOW−, snowmelt was earlier and soil temperature was higher than at other plots during spring because of low soil moisture caused by less snowmelt water. Despite the earlier snowmelt and higher soil temperature in the SNOW− plot in the early growing season, needle opening and shoot elongation were delayed. Leaf chemistry also differed between the CONTROL and SNOW+ plots. The needle nitrogen content in the SNOW− plot was lower in the middle of July, whereas no difference was observed among the three plots in August. The soil inorganic nitrogen content of each plot corresponded to these results. The amount of soil ammonium was lower in the SNOW− plot than in the other plots at the end of July, however, once production started at the end of August, the amount of soil ammonium in the three plots was comparable. Extremely low soil temperatures in winter and freeze-thaw cycles in spring at the SNOW− plot may have affected these results.

Studies on calcium cyanamide. IV. The use of calcium cyanamide and other forms of nitrogen on grassland

1934 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-510 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. L. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Nitrogen Content ◽  
Nitrogen Uptake ◽  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Early Winter ◽  
Grassland Soil ◽  
Late Autumn ◽  
Soil Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Calcium Cyanamide ◽  
Soil Inorganic

Summary1. Ammonia added as sulphate of ammonia disappeared rapidly from a pasture grassland soil, while very little nitrate accumulated. In winter or early spring three-fourths of the added nitrogen had gone in less than 4 weeks. After the first fortnight there was little difference in the soil inorganic nitrogen from calcium cyanamide and from sulphate of ammonia. A moderate dressing of dicyanodiamide slightly reduced but did not inhibit nitrification; it did not appreciably retard the disappearance of inorganic nitrogen from the soil in winter.2. Winter applications of sulphate of ammonia produced less increase in yield or nitrogen content of repeatedly mown herbage than did spring ones. A late autumn application was almost as effective as a spring one. Calcium cyanamide in late autumn or early winter was on the whole less effective than sulphate of ammonia, but in spring the two were substantially equal. There was little evidence that calcium cyanamide was “slow acting” in comparison with sulphate of ammonia. Dicyanodiamide was practically inert so far as the effect of winter dressings on yield or nitrogen uptake was concerned.

Soil Inorganic Nitrogen under Fertilized Bermudagrass Turf

Crop Science ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 247 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Lee ◽  
Daniel C. Bowman ◽  
D. Keith Cassel ◽  
Charles H. Peacock ◽  
Thomas W. Rufty
Keyword(s):  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Soil Inorganic

scholarly journals Compost and soil moisture effects on seasonal carbon and nitrogen dynamics, greenhouse gas fluxes and global warming potential of semi-arid soils

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (S1) ◽  
pp. 367-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mavis Badu Brempong ◽  
Urszula Norton ◽  
Jay B. Norton
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Global Warming Potential ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
Inorganic Nitrogen ◽  
Early Summer ◽  
Late Spring ◽  
Late Winter ◽  
Normal Soil ◽  
Soil Inorganic

Abstract Purpose An 8-week incubation study was conducted to monitor soil inorganic nitrogen (N), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), greenhouse gases (GHG) [CO2, N2O and CH4] and cumulative global warming potential (GWP) in dryland soil. Methods Soil was amended with variable rates of compost (zero, 15, 30 and 45 dry Mg ha−1) and soil moistures [5% (dry), 7% (normal) and 14% (wet) water filled pore space (WFPS)] and experienced biweekly temperature transitions from 5 °C (late winter) to 10 °C (early spring) to 15 °C (late spring) to 25 °C (early summer). Results The addition of 30 and 45 Mg ha−1 compost enhanced N mineralization with 13% more soil inorganic N (7.49 and 7.72 µg Ng−1 day−1, respectively) during early summer compared with lower compost rates. Normal and wet soils had 35% more DOC in the late spring (an average of 34 µg g−1 day−1) compared to the dry WFPS, but transitioning from late spring to early summer, DOC at all soil WFPS levels increased. Highest rates of compost were not significant sources of GHG with normal soil WFPS, compared with lower compost rates. Carbon dioxide emissions increased by 59 and 15%, respectively, as soil WFPS increased from dry to normal and normal to wet. Soils with normal WFPS were the most effective CH4 sink. Conclusion One-time application of high compost rates to dryland soils leads to enhanced N and C mineralization under normal soil moisture and warmer temperature of the summer but will not pose significant global warming dangers to the environment through GHG emissions since soils are rarely wet.

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