A passive sampling method for radiocarbon analysis of soil respiration using molecular sieve

Mark H. Garnett; Iain P. Hartley; David W. Hopkins; Martin Sornmerkorn; Philip Wookey

doi:10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.03.024

A passive sampling method for radiocarbon analysis of soil respiration using molecular sieve

Mark H. Garnett, Iain P. Hartley, David W. Hopkins, Martin Sornmerkorn, Philip Wookey

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Radiocarbon analysis Of Soil CO2 can provide information on the age, source and turnover rate of soil organic C. We developed a new method for passively trapping respired CO2 on molecular sieve, allowing it to be returned to the laboratory and recovered for C isotope analysis. We tested the method on a soil at a grassland site, and using a synthetic soil created to provide a contrasting isotopic signature. As with other passive sampling techniques, a small amount of fractionation of the C-13 isotope occurs during sampling, which we have quantified, otherwise the results show that the molecular sieve traps a sufficiently large and representative sample Of CO2 for C isotope analysis. Since C-14 results are routinely corrected for mass-dependent fractionation, our results show that passive sampling of soil respiration using molecular sieve offers a reliable method to collect soil-respired CO2 for C-14 analysis. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1450-1456
Number of pages	7
Journal	Soil Biology and Biochemistry
Volume	41
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2009.03.024
Publication status	Published - Jul 2009

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