Abstract:Global climate change is the focus of humanity's attention. Greenhouse gases (GHG) are a crucial element of this focus. Forests are important for contributing to the maintenance of ecological balance, and forest soils are an important source and sink of GHG to the atmosphere. The study of the GHG from forest soil and its influence factors could assist the deceleration of global warming is highly significant. The Greater Khingan Mountains are often affected by fire and the restoration of severely degraded ecosystems has always been a focus of experts' attention. In 1987, the forest resources were severely damaged in the Greater Khingan Mountains and owing to short growth seasons and cold weather, the local ecological environment had difficulty recovering. The restoration methods affected the soil properties and vegetation of these degraded ecosystems. In order to know the effects of different restoration methods on woodland soil GHG (CO2, CH4 and N2O) emissions, we used a gas static chamber-GC technique to observe the soil GHG in situ from June to September in 2017. The results showed that in the growing season, the forest soil of three restoration methods was the source of atmospheric CO2 and N2O, and the sink of CH4. In the growing season, the woodland soil CO2 emission flux of artificial promotion of natural regeneration ((634.40±246.52) mg m-2 h-1) was greater than artificial regeneration ((603.63±213.22) mg m-2 h-1) and natural regeneration ((575.81±244.12) mg m-2 h-1). There was no significant difference between the three recovery methods. The woodland soil CH4 uptake flux of the artificial regeneration was significantly higher than that of the artificial promotion of natural regeneration. The emissions of N2O from the woodland soil of natural regeneration were significantly higher than the other two restoration methods. During the growing season, the woodland soil greenhouse gas fluxes of the three vegetation recovery methods were markedly different. Soil temperature was the key factor affecting the woodland soil greenhouse gas fluxes of the three vegetation recovery methods. Soil moisture had a significant effect on N2O fluxes of artificially regenerated soils (P < 0.01). The CO2 flux of woodland soil had a very significant response to atmospheric humidity. The soil pH value was significantly correlated only with the CO2 flux from the naturally regenerated woodland soil (P < 0.05) and the total nitrogen content in the soil was only significantly related to the CH4 flux of woodland soil from the artificial promotion of natural regeneration (P < 0.05). Based on the centennial scale, we calculated the global warming potential (GWP) from three greenhouse gases in three recovery modes. The contribution potential of greenhouse effects in the artificial promotion of natural regeneration was 1.83×104 kg CO2/hm2, and in artificial and natural regeneration were 1.74×104 and 1.67×104 kg CO2/hm2, respectively. The CO2 and N2O emissions of forest soils in the Amuer region were 8.85×106 t and 1.88×102 t and the absorption of CH4 was 1.05×103 t in the annual growth season. These results provide a scientific basis for the restoration and reconstruction of degraded ecosystems in the Greater Khingan Mountains.