基于树轮火疤塔河蒙克山樟子松林火灾的频度分析

大兴安岭地区是我国重要林区,又是林火的多发区,林火是森林生态系统中的重要干扰因子,对整个森林生态系统结构、功能和动态都有重要影响。樟子松为欧洲赤松的一个变种,在我国主要分布于大兴安岭地区。近年来,频繁的森林火灾造成樟子松林大面积减少。因此,重建大兴安岭樟子松林火历史,掌握樟子松林火灾规律已显得十分迫切。在大兴安岭北部塔河县蒙克山林场采集了11棵樟子松火疤圆盘,利用树木年轮年代学方法重建了大兴安岭北部塔河县蒙克山樟子松林的火灾历史,获得1个以树轮年代学为基础的樟子松火疤年表。利用火历史分析软件得到蒙克山樟子松林火灾间隔期和轮回期分别为24.8a和33a。由火疤年表得到的蒙克山樟子松林火灾历史大致可分为3个历史时期:满清中期(1723-1859年)、清末民国时期(1860-1949年)和建国后(1950年至今)。41个火疤记录中早早材火(E)所占比例最大,占全部火疤数目的61%,晚材火(A)、未确定火(U)和休眠季节火(D)则相对较少。大区域性火灾事件平均间隔期为32.5a,最大火灾间隔期为61a。本研究为进一步探究大兴安岭地区寒温带针叶林火灾历史的时间和空间格局及其之间的联系提供了基础数据。     

大兴安岭兴安落叶松和樟子松径向生长对气候变化的响应差异

大兴安岭是我国气候变化最为显著的地区之一,兴安落叶松和樟子松是该地区最为重要的树种,研究它们径向生长对气候变化的响应差异,可以为预测气候变化下我国北方森林动态提供科学依据。在大兴安岭地区选择6个样点共采集兴安落叶松树轮和樟子松树轮样芯451个,建立了12个标准年表。比较了1900年以来树木径向生长趋势,利用Pearson相关分析法分析各样点兴安落叶松和樟子松生长对气候因子的响应,运用线性混合模型探讨温度和降水对兴安落叶松和樟子松年径向生长的影响,通过滑动相关对比两个树种生长-气候关系的时间稳定性。结果表明: 兴安落叶松径向生长与3月平均温度呈负相关,与上一年冬季和当年7月降水呈正相关。樟子松径向生长与当年8月温度呈正相关,与当年生长季(5—9月)降水呈正相关。冬季降雪对兴安落叶松径向生长起到重要的促进作用,夏季过多降水对樟子松径向生长起到显著的限制作用。兴安落叶松和樟子松生长对气候变化的响应存在明显差异,因此,气候变化可能会影响北方森林生态系统的树木生长、物种组成以及空间分布等。     

Different responses of Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Mongolia oak (Quercus mongolica) growth to recent climate warming in northeast China

Different tree species growing in the same area may have different, or even contrasting growth responses to climate change. Korean pine (Pinus koraiensis) and Mongolia oak (Quercus mongolica) are two crucial tree species in temperate forest ecosystems. Six tree-ring chronologies for Korean pine and Mongolia oak were developed by using the zero-signal method to explore their growth response to the recent climate warming in northeast China. Results showed that Mongolia oak radial growth was mainly limited by precipitation in the growing season, while Korean pine growth depended on temperature condition, especially monthly minimum temperature. With the latitude decrease, the relationships between Korean pine growth and monthly precipitation changed from negative to positive correlation, while the positive correlation with monthly temperature gradually weakened. In the contrary, Mongolia oak growth at the three sampling sites was significantly and positively correlated with precipitation in the growing season, while it was negatively correlated with temperature and this relationship decreased with the latitude decrease. The radial growth of Korean pine at different sites showed a clearly discrepant responses to the recent warming since 1980. Korean pine growth in the north site increased with the temperature increase, decreased in the midwest site, and almost unchanged in the southeast site. Conversely, Mongolia oak growth was less affected by the recent climate warming. Our finding suggested that tree species trait and sites are both key factors that affect the response of tree growth to climate change. In addition, the suitable distribution area of Korean pine may be moved northward with the continued global warming in the future, but Mongolia oak may not shift in the same way.     

Land cover change effects on soil chemical and biological properties after planting Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) in sandy lands in Keerqin, northeastern China

We compared soil moisture content, pH, total organic carbon (C _org), total nitrogen (TN), total phosphorus (TP) and inorganic N (NH₄ ⁺–N, NO₃ ^?–N) concentrations, soil potential C and N mineralization rates, soil microbial biomass C (C _mic), soil metabolic quotient (qCO₂), soil microbial quotient (C _mic/C _org) and soil enzyme (urease and invertase) activities in semiarid sandy soils under three types of land cover: grassland, Mongolian pine (Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica) plantation, and elm (Ulmus punila)–grass savanna in southeastern Keerqin, in northeast China. Soil C _org, TN and TP concentrations (0–10, 10–20, 20–40 and 40–60 cm) were lower while soil C/N and C/P ratios were higher in the plantation than in grassland and savanna. The effects of land cover change on NH₄ ⁺–N and NO₃ ^?–N concentrations, soil potential nitrification and C mineralization rates in the surface soil (0–10 cm) were dependent on sampling season; but soil potential N mineralization rates were not affected by land cover type and sampling season. The effects of land cover change on C _mic and qCO₂ of surface soil were not significant; but C _mic/C _org were significantly affected by land cover change and sampling season. We also found that land cover change, sampling season and land cover type?×?sampling season interaction significantly influenced soil enzyme (urease and invertase) activities. Usually soil enzyme activities were lower in the pine plantations than in grassland and savanna. Our results suggest that land cover change markedly influenced soil chemical and biological properties in sandy soils in the semiarid region, and these effects vary with sampling season.     

Changes in soil organic carbon,nitrogen, pH and bulk density with the development of larch (Larix gmelinii) plantations in China

Under the government of China's environmental program known as Returning Farmland To Forests (RFTF), about 28 million hectares of farmland have been converted to tree plantation. This has led to a large accumulation of biomass carbon, but less is known about underground carbon‐related processes. One permanent plot (25 years of observation) and four chronosequence plot series comprising 159 plots of larch (Larix gmelinii) plantations in northeastern China were studied. Both methods found significant soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation (96.4 g C m^?2 yr^?1) and bulk density decrease (5.7 mg cm^?3 yr^?1) in the surface soil layer (0–20 cm), but no consistent changes in deeper layers, indicating that larch planting under the RFTF program can increase SOC storage and improve the physical properties of surface soil. Nitrogen depletion (4.1–4.3 g m^?2 yr^?1), soil acidification (0.007–0.022 pH units yr^?1) and carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio increase (0.16–0.46 per year) were observed in lessive soil, whereas no significant changes were found in typical dark‐brown forest soil. This SOC accumulation rate (96.4 g m^?2 yr^?1) can take 39% of the total carbon sink capacity [net ecosystem exchange (NEE)] of larch forests in this region and the total soil carbon sequestration could be 87 Tg carbon within 20 years of plantation by approximating all larch plantations in northeastern China (4.5 Mha), showing the importance of soil carbon accumulation in the ecosystem carbon balance. By comparison with the rates of these processes in agricultural use, the RFTF program of reversing land use for agriculture will rehabilitate SOC, soil fertility and bulk density slowly (< 69% of the depletion rate in agricultural use), so that a much longer duration is needed to rehabilitate the underground function of soil via the RFTF program. Global forest plantations on abandoned farmland or function to protecting farmland are of steady growth and our findings may be important for understanding their underground carbon processes.     

Evaluation of the non-climatic (age-related) trends of stable oxygen and carbon isotopes in Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) tree rings from the Eastern Carpathians,Romania

The presence, magnitude, and duration of age and/or size-related trends in the stable isotopes in tree-ring cellulose time series has been a subject of scientific debate. Where present, their evaluation and removal are key to the development of robust climate calibrations and reconstructions, especially in the low-frequency domain and where sample replication levels are low. Where reported, results suggest that the age/size/height-related trend of stable oxygen (δ¹⁸O) and carbon (δ¹³C) isotope compositions in tree-ring cellulose may vary according to the tree species and the individual tree location. For this reason, it is important when developing long palaeoclimate reconstructions for a new species, geographical region or ecological setting to perform studies to investigate non-climatic (age-related) trends. This study evaluates the ontogenetic pattern in the δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C data in Swiss stone pine trees from the Eastern Carpathians, Romania. For this, we used a new multi-centennial dataset consisting of 5 living and 10 relict Swiss stone pine samples collected from the Eastern Carpathians, which were annually resolved for δ¹⁸O and δ¹³C composition. Age-related trends were evaluated using the conventional “slope of the mean” approach as well as the “mean of the slope” method. The results suggest that neither the traditional “slope-of-the mean” nor the “mean-of-the-slope” approach indicates a persistent linear trend in the Swiss stone pine δ¹⁸O data, while for the δ¹³C data a systematic enrichment in ¹³C was observed over a < 40 year-long period after germination. Despite the limited sample size of this developing dataset these findings help to inform more detailed analyses and future sampling strategies in the Eastern Carpathian Swiss stone pine stands.     

内蒙古半干旱地区空气和土壤加湿对幼龄樟子松生长的影响

干旱半干旱区约占全球陆地总面积的30%, 植物生长对于水分变化的响应在此区域更为敏感。大气干旱和土壤干旱都会对植物生长产生影响, 目前关于这两者对植物生长的影响已有不少实验研究, 但具体的影响机制尚不清楚。该研究以幼龄樟子松(Pinus sylvestris var. mongolica)为研究对象, 通过设计改变空气湿度与土壤湿度的野外控制实验, 探究空气加湿与土壤加湿对幼龄樟子松生长特性的影响。 结果表明: 1)与对照相比, 空气加湿使饱和水汽压亏缺(VPD)降低了20.5%, 空气加湿和土壤加湿使土壤湿度分别增加了23.4%和21.3%。2)空气加湿显著增加了叶片密度, 土壤加湿显著加粗了枝条直径, 空气与土壤共同加湿对叶片和枝条的生长均有显著的促进作用。3)结合加湿处理对径向生长的影响及结构方程模型的结果发现, 土壤加湿可直接促进树干的径向生长, 空气加湿对径向生长的显著促进作用一方面是由于VPD降低的直接影响, 另一方面是由于空气加湿显著提高了土壤湿度。该研究揭示了半干旱地区幼龄樟子松生长对大气水分和土壤水分改变的响应差异。     

The role of larch budmoth (Zeiraphera diniana Gn.) on forest succession in a larch (Larix decidua Mill.) and Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) stand in the Susa Valley (Piedmont, Italy)

In the Alps, larch (Larix decidua Mill.) is severely affected by larch budmoth (Zeiraphera diniana Guénée) (LBM) attacks. The impact of these outbreaks on the Swiss stone pine (Pinus cembra L.) and on the dynamic processes acting in subalpine forest stands are still not well known. Dendroecological methods were used in this study to reconstruct past LBM outbreaks in Susa Valley, Piedmont, Italy. The analysis was carried out on 62 cores from larch and 101 cores from stone pine. The length and severity of each outbreak was quantified for both species and for each tree by means of the programme OUTBREAK. The frequency of the outbreaks was determined using singular spectral analysis and superposed epoch analysis was used to test the significance of the associations between outbreaks and tree-ring growth. In order to verify if trees belonging to different age classes are differently affected by LBM, the reconstructed outbreaks are then classified taking into account the cambial age of the tree at the moment of the outbreak. From 1760 to 1999, 19 outbreaks were recorded in the larch chronologies, while only three outbreaks in the stone pine chronologies. The larch growth is strongly influenced by LBM and the identified outbreaks are equally distributed in all the three age classes. On the stone pine the sporadic occurrence of the identified events made difficult any interpretation of the eventual effect of LBM. Our results lead us to argue that LBM has not played an important role both in determining the stone pine growth rate and in influencing the present observed succession from the stage dominated by larch, to a stage dominated by stone pine or by a mixed stone pine-larch forest.     

微地形对江西武夷山南方铁杉针阔混交林幼树更新的影响

为探讨江西武夷山南方铁杉针阔混交林内不同微地形中幼树更新特征的差异,明晰不同微地形生境对幼树天然更新的影响。以江西武夷山国家级自然保护区内海拔约1800m的南方铁杉针阔混交原始林为研究对象,基于在其中建立的中亚热带南方铁杉针阔混交林动态监测固定样地首次调查数据,将固定样地中160个20m×20m的样方根据其海拔、凹凸度和坡度3种地形参数通过C-均值模糊聚类划分成不同的微地形生境,比较这不同微地形下的更新幼树种类组成及幼树更新特征,包括幼树密度,幼树平均胸径、平均高、平均冠幅,空间分布格局,分析不同微地形下幼树更新特征与地形因子、林分因子之间的关系。结果显示：(1)通过聚类分析,最终将固定样地的微地形生境划分成4类,分别为陡坡、凹地、凸地、缓坡。(2)4类微地形更新幼树优势种组成类似,但优势程度存在差异。闽皖八角幼树在4类微地形中的重要值皆为第一,均大于43%。建群种南方铁杉的幼树在凸地的重要值为9.09%,具有一定优势;在陡坡的重要值为0.62%,优势程度较差。(3)陡坡的更新幼树密度最高,为399株/hm~2,高于凹地,凸地和缓坡;幼树平均胸径和平均高的大小表现为：缓坡>凸地&...