Plastic footprint deteriorates dryland carbon footprint across soil–plant-atmosphere continuum

Autor: Meng-Ying Li, Wei Wang, Yue Ma, Yinglong Chen, Hong-Yan Tao, Ze-Ying Zhao, Peng-Yang Wang, Li Zhu, Baoluo Ma, Yun-Li Xiao, Shi-Sheng Li, Muhammad Ashraf, Wen-Ying Wang, Xiao-Bin Xiong, Ying Zhu, Jin-Lin Zhang, Momena Irum, Ya-Jie Song, Levis Kavagi, You-Cai Xiong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Environment International, Vol 186, Iss , Pp 108632- (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 0160-4120
DOI: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.108632
Popis: Plastic fragments are widely found in the soil profile of terrestrial ecosystems, forming plastic footprint and posing increasing threat to soil functionality and carbon (C) footprint. It is unclear how plastic footprint affects C cycling, and in particularly permanent C sequestration. Integrated field observations (including 13C labelling) were made using polyethylene and polylactic acid plastic fragments (low-, medium- and high-concentrations as intensifying footprint) landfilling in soil, to track C flow along soil–plant-atmosphere continuum (SPAC). The result indicated that increased plastic fragments substantially reduced photosynthetic C assimilation (p 0.05). Particularly, soil aggregate stability was significantly lowered as affected by plastic fragments, which accelerated the decomposition rate of newly sequestered C (p
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