DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2012.07.032
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84875053790
论文题名: Organic soil combustion in cypress swamps: Moisture effects and landscape implications for carbon release
作者: Watts A.C.
刊名: Forest Ecology and Management
ISSN: 0378-1127
出版年: 2013
卷: 294 起始页码: 178
结束页码: 187
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Cypress
; Ground fire
; Peat
; Smoldering
; Swamp
; Taxodium distichum
Scopus关键词: Cypress
; Hydrologic effects
; Inhibitive effects
; Smoldering
; Smoldering combustion
; Spatial variations
; Swamp
; Taxodium distichum
; Carbon
; Combustion
; Ecosystems
; Fires
; Moisture determination
; Peat
; Plants (botany)
; Soil moisture
; Wetlands
; combustion
; coniferous tree
; fire behavior
; moisture content
; mortality
; organic carbon
; organic soil
; peat soil
; soil carbon
; soil moisture
; soil organic matter
; soil profile
; spatial variation
; swamp
; wildfire
; Florida [United States]
; United States
; Cupressus
; Taxodium
; Taxodium distichum
; Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium
英文摘要: Swamps, peatlands, and other wetland ecosystems can store vast amounts of carbon in organically-derived peat soils. Wildfires during severe droughts can produce smoldering combustion in these soils, releasing large quantities of carbon to the atmosphere and causing dramatic changes at the local scale due to plant mortality and hydrologic effects. I studied variation in moisture content and carbon loss from smoldering combustion in soils from pondcypress (Taxodium distichum var. imbricarium) swamps in Florida USA. In a lab study, soil moisture content near the surface (upper 10cm) did not predict vertical depth of soil combustion. Mass loss of organic carbon from soil profiles was, however, negatively related (P<0.01). I also studied spatial variation in soil moisture, as a predictor of potential soil combustion, at a range of distances from edges of cypress-swamp patches. A weak, but significant (P<0.01), positive relationship exists between distance from edges and upper-layer soil moisture, indicating that some inhibitive effect on smoldering may be present proceeding toward the centers of larger swamp patches. Conservative estimates of SOC content in cypress peats (approximately 41% by mass, compared to a figure of 50% sometimes used in such studies) indicate substantial potential for soil carbon loss (over 4kgm2) from wildfires in cypress swamps. This initial study on smoldering of cypress peats also makes recommendations for future efforts to study ground fires in these regionally important ecosystems. © 2012 Elsevier B.V. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/66689
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作者单位: Fire Science Laboratory, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110485, Gainesville, FL 32611-0485, United States
Recommended Citation:
Watts A.C.. Organic soil combustion in cypress swamps: Moisture effects and landscape implications for carbon release[J]. Forest Ecology and Management,2013-01-01,294