Chin J Plant Ecol ›› 2020, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 318-329.DOI: 10.17521/cjpe.2019.0201

Special Issue: 生态学研究的技术和方法 碳水能量通量

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Theory, hypothesis and application advance in chamber-based technology and methods for flux measurement

WEI Jie1,CHEN Chang-Hua1,WANG Jing-Yuan1,WEN Xue-Fa1,2,*()   

  1. 1Key Laboratory of Ecosystem Network Observation and Modeling, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
    2College of Resources and Environment, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2019-08-05 Accepted:2019-11-14 Online:2020-04-20 Published:2020-03-26
  • Contact: WEN Xue-Fa
  • Supported by:
    National Key R&D Program of China(2017YFC0503904);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41830860);National Natural Science Foundation of China(41671257)

Abstract:

The exchange flux of greenhouse gases, such as carbon (CO2, CH4), nitrogen (N2O) and water vapour (H2O), is the core of material cycle in the ecosystem and the bond of interaction among geosphere, biosphere and atmosphere. The development of stable isotope infrared spectroscopy and mass spectrometry technology and methods makes it possible to measure carbon stable isotopic composition (δ 13C) and oxygen stable isotopic composition (δ 18O)(CO2), δ 13C (CH4), nitrogen stable isotope composition (δ 15N) and δ 18O (N2O), hydrogen stable isotopic composition (δD) and δ 18O (H2O), which realizes the observation of greenhouse gas and its isotope flux at the soil, plant and ecosystem scales in combined with chamber-based technology and methods for flux measurement. Taking the chamber-based technology and methods for CO2 and its δ 13C flux measurement as an example, this review which summarizes the basic principle and classification of the flux measurement system, expounds the theory requirements and assumptions of system design, summarizes the application advance and problems of chamber-based technology and methods for flux measurement in soil, plants (leaf, stem, and root) and ecosystem scales from the field to indoor, and prospects the importance of precision and accuracy of gas analysis and measurement data and the representativeness of measurement data in chamber-based flux measurement.

Key words: greenhouse gas, stable isotope, precision, accuracy, representative