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10.5194/acpd-12-787-2012

BVOCs emission in a semi-arid grassland under climate warming and nitrogen deposition

Wang

H. J.

¹ Xia

J. Y.

¹ Mu

Y. J.

² Nie

³ Han

X. G.

¹ ⁴ Wan

S. Q.

¹ ⁵

State Key Laboratory of Vegetation and Environmental Change, Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xiangshan, Beijing 100093, China

Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100085, China

Beijing Municipal Research Institute of Environmental Protection, Xicheng, Beijing 100037, China

State Key Laboratory of Forest and Soil Ecology, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110164, China

State Key Laboratory of Cotton Biology, Henan Key State Laboratory of Plant Stress Biology, School of Life Sciences, Henan University, Kaifeng, Henan 475003, China

10 01 2012

12 1 787 815

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Biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) profoundly affect atmospheric chemistry and ecosystem functioning. BVOCs emission and their responses to global change are still unclear in grasslands, which cover one quarter of the Earth's land surface and are currently undergoing the largest changes. Over two growing seasons, we conducted a field experiment in a semi-arid grassland (Inner Mongolia, China) to examine the emission and the responses of BVOCs emissions to warming and nitrogen deposition. The natural emission rate (NER) of monoterpene (dominant BVOCs here) is 107 ± 16 μg m−2 h−1 in drought 2007, and 266 ± 53 μg m−2 h−1 in wet 2008, respectively. Warming decreased the standard emission factor (SEF) by 24% in 2007, while increased it by 43% in 2008. The exacerbated soil moisture loss caused by warming in dry season might be responsible for the decrease of SEF in 2007. A possible threshold of soil moisture (8.2% (v/v)), which controls the direction of warming effects on monoterpene emission, existed in the semiarid grassland. Nitrogen deposition decreased the coverage of Artemisia frigida and hence reduced the NER by 24% across the two growing seasons. These results suggest that the grasslands dominated by the extended Artemisia frigida are an important source for BVOCs, while the responses of their emissions to global changes are more uncertain since they depend on multifactorial/in-situ/conditions.

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