IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/spr/climat/v117y2013i4p739-755.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Spatial and temporal variability of soil biological activity in the Province of Québec, Canada (45–58 °N, 1960–2009)—calculations based on climate records

Author

Listed:
  • M. Bolinder
  • J. Fortin
  • F. Anctil
  • O. Andrén
  • T. Kätterer
  • R. Jong
  • L. Parent

Abstract

Climate records of air temperature (AT) and total precipitation (TP) are standard inputs for soil carbon dynamic models, i.e., for calculating temperature and moisture effects on soil biological activity. In this study our objective was to determine both spatial and temporal differences in soil biological activity in the Province of Québec, Canada. Soil biological activity was here calculated on a daily basis with the ICBM re_clim parameter using data from weather stations. When keeping soil and crop properties constant, re_clim (unitless) allows us to assess relative differences in soil biological activity. The magnitude of the temporal changes in re_clim, AT and TP were analyzed using Sen’s slope, which is a nonparametric method used to determine the presence of a trend component. The re_clim varied across Québec from 0.50 (58 °N) to a high of 1.66 (45 °N). Considering only the area with significant agricultural production, re_clim varied from 0.99 at Gaspé (48 °N) to 1.66 at Philipsburg (45 °N), i.e., soil organic carbon (SOC) decomposition rate is 68 % higher at the latter site (1.66/0.99) and correspondingly more C input is needed to maintain SOC. Soil biological activity increased from 1960 to 2009, with a mean slope variation in re_clim of about +10 %. The temporal variation in AT had more influence than that of TP. For 1980–2009 the mean annual slope of re_clim was significantly different from zero for 29 out of 49 climate records (mean = +14 %; N = 29). We also emphasize that analysis of seasonal changes in AT is an issue that needs further attention, as well as modeling climate-induced changes in SOC dynamics based on future climate scenarios. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2013

Suggested Citation

  • M. Bolinder & J. Fortin & F. Anctil & O. Andrén & T. Kätterer & R. Jong & L. Parent, 2013. "Spatial and temporal variability of soil biological activity in the Province of Québec, Canada (45–58 °N, 1960–2009)—calculations based on climate records," Climatic Change, Springer, vol. 117(4), pages 739-755, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:117:y:2013:i:4:p:739-755
    DOI: 10.1007/s10584-012-0602-6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1007/s10584-012-0602-6
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1007/s10584-012-0602-6?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Fortin, J.G. & Bolinder, M.A. & Anctil, F. & Kätterer, T. & Andrén, O. & Parent, L.E., 2011. "Effects of climatic data low-pass filtering on the ICBM temperature- and moisture-based soil biological activity factors in a cool and humid climate," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(17), pages 3050-3060.
    2. Juston, John & Andrén, Olof & Kätterer, Thomas & Jansson, Per-Erik, 2010. "Uncertainty analyses for calibrating a soil carbon balance model to agricultural field trial data in Sweden and Kenya," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 221(16), pages 1880-1888.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kröbel, R. & Bolinder, M.A. & Janzen, H.H. & Little, S.M. & Vandenbygaart, A.J. & Kätterer, T., 2016. "Canadian farm-level soil carbon change assessment by merging the greenhouse gas model Holos with the Introductory Carbon Balance Model (ICBM)," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 76-85.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ortiz, Carina A. & Liski, Jari & Gärdenäs, Annemieke I. & Lehtonen, Aleksi & Lundblad, Mattias & Stendahl, Johan & Ågren, Göran I. & Karltun, Erik, 2013. "Soil organic carbon stock changes in Swedish forest soils—A comparison of uncertainties and their sources through a national inventory and two simulation models," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 251(C), pages 221-231.
    2. Ortiz, Carina & Karltun, Erik & Stendahl, Johan & Gärdenäs, Annemieke I. & Ågren, Göran I., 2011. "Modelling soil carbon development in Swedish coniferous forest soils—An uncertainty analysis of parameters and model estimates using the GLUE method," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(17), pages 3020-3032.
    3. Kröbel, R. & Bolinder, M.A. & Janzen, H.H. & Little, S.M. & Vandenbygaart, A.J. & Kätterer, T., 2016. "Canadian farm-level soil carbon change assessment by merging the greenhouse gas model Holos with the Introductory Carbon Balance Model (ICBM)," Agricultural Systems, Elsevier, vol. 143(C), pages 76-85.
    4. Fortin, J.G. & Bolinder, M.A. & Anctil, F. & Kätterer, T. & Andrén, O. & Parent, L.E., 2011. "Effects of climatic data low-pass filtering on the ICBM temperature- and moisture-based soil biological activity factors in a cool and humid climate," Ecological Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 222(17), pages 3050-3060.
    5. Shafiei, Mojtaba & Ghahraman, Bijan & Saghafian, Bahram & Davary, Kamran & Pande, Saket & Vazifedoust, Majid, 2014. "Uncertainty assessment of the agro-hydrological SWAP model application at field scale: A case study in a dry region," Agricultural Water Management, Elsevier, vol. 146(C), pages 324-334.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:climat:v:117:y:2013:i:4:p:739-755. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.