Abstract:Greenhouse gas emission from desert soil is an important part of terrestrial carbon and nitrogen cycle, while the influence of artificial vegetation restoration on CH4 and N2O fluxes in desert soil in non-growing seasons is still not clear. In this paper, the static chamber and gas chromatography technique were used. We performed a spatial series analysis that represented at emporalseries to study the desert soil CH4 and N2O fluxes corresponding to the different stages of vegetation restoration during non-growing season. We also explored the correlation of these fluxes with the environmental factors and studied the effects of revegetation on desert soil CH4 and N2O fluxes in the eastern Hobq Desert, China. The results showed that the desert soil was a sink of CH4 and a contributor to N2O emission during non-growing season. The change trend for CH4 and N2O fluxes at different restoration stages were the same:moss crust fixed sand (47.6 μg CH4 m-2 h-1, 13.5 μgN2O m-2 h-1) > lichen crust fixed sand (32.2 μg CH4 m-2 h-1, 9.1 μg N2O m-2 h-1 > algae crust fixed sand (23.7 μg CH4 m-2 h-1, 8.7 μg N2O m-2 h-1) > semi-fixed sand (22.4 μg CH4 m-2 h-1, 5.0 μg N2O m-2 h-1) > mobile dune (18.7 μg CH4 m-2 h-1, 3.9 μg N2O m-2 h-1). The greenhouse gas emissions of desert soil in different freezing periods were significantly different. The CH4 absorption contribution rate was the largest in thawing period, while the N2O emission contribution rate was the largest in freezing period. During the non-growing season, there was an obvious hydrothermal synchronization in desert soil. The soil hydrothermal factors had little effect on the N2O flux. Only the soil temperature in semi-fixed sandy land had a significant positive correlation with the N2O flux. But in algae, lichen and moss crust fixed sands, soil temperature and moisture content were all negatively correlated with the CH4 flux. In the process of vegetation restoration, the accumulation of biomass and the improvement of soil physical and chemical properties could significantly affect the changes of CH4 and N2O fluxes in desert soil. Therefore, the artificial vegetation restoration and desertification reversal could alter the pattern of greenhouse gas emissions in desert ecosystem.