Articles | Volume 17, issue 24
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6341-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-6341-2020
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15 Dec 2020
Research article |  | 15 Dec 2020

Vertical partitioning of CO2 production in a forest soil

Patrick Wordell-Dietrich, Anja Wotte, Janet Rethemeyer, Jörg Bachmann, Mirjam Helfrich, Kristina Kirfel, Christoph Leuschner, and Axel Don

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The release of CO2 from soils, known as soil respiration, plays a major role in the global carbon cycle. However, the contributions of different soil depths or the sources of soil CO2 have hardly been studied. We quantified the CO2 production for different soil layers (up to 1.5 m) in three soil profiles for 2 years. We found that 90 % of CO2 production occurs in the first 30 cm of the soil profile, and that the CO2 originated from young carbon sources, as revealed by radiocarbon measurements.
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