Soil CO<sub>2</sub> and CH<sub>4</sub> effluxes in powerline rights-of-way and their adjacent forests
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Abstract
Global decarbonization implies a large deployment of the power grid to convey electricity from production sites to users. The right-of-way (i.e. the cleared area below the pylons, where vegetation is periodically maintained) is a linear disturbance in the landscape that changes soil and vegetation and the carbon dynamics both within the impacted area as well as in adjacent forests, notably via an edge effect. Our main objective is to assess whether total and heterotrophic soil CO<sub>2</sub> effluxes (F<sub>CO2-T</sub> and F<sub>CO2-H</sub>), soil CH<sub>4</sub> effluxes (F<sub>CH4</sub>) and microclimate (soil temperature and water content)differed between powerline rights-of-way and their adjacent forests compared to forest interior over a large climatic gradient encompassing the temperate and boreal forest in Eastern Canada. Monthly efflux measurements were carried out between May and October 2023 and 2024 in rights-of-way, their adjacent forests and control forests in eight upland forest sites. Compared to the control forest, cumulative F<sub>CO2-T</sub> during the snow-free period were higher (+10.75 %) in the edge forests and lower (–7.75 %) in the rights-of-way, while cumulative F<sub>CO2-H</sub> were lower (–15.57 %) in the rights-of-way than in the control forests, with no edge effect. Soil was warmer and wetter in rights-of-way compared to control forest, but there was no edge effect on the microclimate. Land use change and edge effect did not alter the apparent temperature sensitivity of F<sub>CO2-T</sub> (Q<sub>10</sub>) or the CH<sub>4</sub> absorption capacity of soils. Altogether, our results showed that the deployment of powerlines in a forest landscape creates spatial heterogeneity in soil CO<sub>2</sub> effluxes with reduced CO<sub>2</sub> cycling in the rights-of-ways and enhanced cycling in the edge forest, while soil CH<sub>4</sub> effluxes are not affected. This suggests that the width of the right of way has implications for assessing the GHG impact of the deployment of power lines.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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