The utility model relates to an in-situ automatic measurement method of CO2 of a
root system. Gas sampling tubes are buried layer by layer at desired depths in the soil, a surface
soil respiration chamber is mounted on the surface of the soil at the upper part, a solenoid
pilot valve and a suction pump are controlled by a
single chip microcomputer, and the gases extracted in all the
layers are delivered to a CO2 analyzer for measurement respectively, so as to achieve the purpose of automatically measuring and recording the
respiration at different measurement points by use of one
infrared CO2analyzer. Eleven measuring pipes for
sample collection can be connected into the method at the same time and an auxiliary
environmental sensor can also be connected into the method at the same time, so as to enable the researcher to analyze the correlation of data. The
single chip microcomputer stores the collected data in a
chip of a memory unit, so as to provide convenience to the researcher during the multi-stage
data analysis. The gas samples are divided into two groups, so as to achieve the purpose of long-term automatic
comparative test in the two groups. Therefore, the method is widelyused for dynamically monitoring the
respiration of the
root system of a wild
plant, and has the advantages of good uniformity of data and low investment in equipment.