Soil moisture temporal stability and spatio-temporal variability about a typical subalpine ecosystem in northwestern China

被引:19
作者
Zhu, Xi [1 ]
He, Zhibin [1 ]
Du, Jun [1 ]
Chen, Longfei [1 ]
Lin, Pengfei [1 ]
Tian, Quanyan [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Linze Inland River Basin Res Stn, Chinese Ecosyst Res Network, Key Lab Ecohydrol Inland River Basin,Northwest In, Lanzhou 730000, Peoples R China
[2] Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
Qilian Mountains; soil moisture; spatio-temporal variability; temporal stability; vegetation types; HEIHE RIVER-BASIN; WATER STORAGE; LOESS PLATEAU; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; HILLSLOPE SCALE; SPRUCE FOREST; SURFACE; CANOPY; DYNAMICS;
D O I
10.1002/hyp.13737
中图分类号
TV21 [水资源调查与水利规划];
学科分类号
081501 ;
摘要
Knowledge of the spatial-temporal variability of soil water content is critical for water management and restoration of vegetation in semi-arid areas. Using the temporal stability method, we investigated soil water relations and spatial-temporal variability of volumetric soil water content (VSWC) in the grassland-shrubland-forest transect at a typical semi-arid subalpine ecosystem in the Qilian Mountains, northwestern China. The VSWC was measured on 48 occasions to a depth of 70 cm at 50 locations along a 240-m transect during the 2016-2017 growing seasons. Results revealed that temporal variability in VSWC in the same soil layer in the three vegetation types and averaged across vegetation types tended to exhibit similar patterns of a decrease with increasing soil depth. Temporal stability in each vegetation type was stronger with an increase in soil depth. However, the results of temporal stability determined with standard deviation of relative difference (SDRD) disagreed with those based on the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient; the forest site had the highest Spearman rank correlation coefficient while the shrubland-the smallest SDRD in the 0-20 cm soil layer. Correlation analyses of VSWCs between two vegetation types indicated that soil water was related among all three vegetation types at the 0-20, and 0-70 cm soil layer, but in the 20-40 and 40-70 cm soil layers, significant correlation (p < .01) occurred only between adjacent vegetation types. In the upper soil layer (0-20 cm), soil water relations were mainly affected by surface runoff. In the lower soil layer (20-40 and 40-70 cm), soil water relations among the three vegetation types were highly complex, and probably resulting from a combination of root distribution and activity, interflow, and the impact of deep soil freeze-thaw dynamics. These results suggest that the factors affecting soil water are complex, and further research should address the relative importance of and interactions among different determining factors.
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页码:2401 / 2417
页数:17
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