Extreme heat events heighten soil respiration.


Journal

Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
23 03 2021
Historique:
received: 17 10 2020
accepted: 01 02 2021
entrez: 24 3 2021
pubmed: 25 3 2021
medline: 25 3 2021
Statut: epublish

Résumé

In the wake of climate change, extreme events such as heatwaves are considered to be key players in the terrestrial biosphere. In the past decades, the frequency and severity of heatwaves have risen substantially, and they are projected to continue to intensify in the future. One key question is therefore: how do changes in extreme heatwaves affect the carbon cycle? Although soil respiration (Rs) is the second largest contributor to the carbon cycle, the impacts of heatwaves on Rs have not been fully understood. Using a unique set of continuous high frequency in-situ measurements from our field site, we characterize the relationship between Rs and heatwaves. We further compare the Rs response to heatwaves across ten additional sites spanning the contiguous United States (CONUS). Applying a probabilistic framework, we conclude that during heatwaves Rs rates increase significantly, on average, by ~ 26% relative to that of non-heatwave conditions over the CONUS. Since previous in-situ observations have not measured the Rs response to heatwaves (e.g., rate, amount) at the high frequency that we present here, the terrestrial feedback to the carbon cycle may be underestimated without capturing these high frequency extreme heatwave events.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33758210
doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-85764-8
pii: 10.1038/s41598-021-85764-8
pmc: PMC7987973
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

Langues

eng

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IM

Pagination

6632

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Auteurs

Hassan Anjileli (H)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA. hassan.a@uci.edu.

Laurie S Huning (LS)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Department of Civil Engineering and Construction Engineering Management, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA.

Hamed Moftakhari (H)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Department of Civil, Construction and Environmental Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA.

Samaneh Ashraf (S)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Department of Building, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Ata Akbari Asanjan (AA)

Universities Space Research Association, Mountain View, CA, USA.

Hamid Norouzi (H)

Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering, New York City College of Technology, The City University of NY, New York, NY, USA.

Amir AghaKouchak (A)

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.
Department of Earth System Science, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA.

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