Increasing plant diversity enhances soil organic carbon storage in typical wetlands of northern China.

ABSTRACT: Soil organic carbon plays an important role in climate change mitigation, and can be strongly affected by plant diversity. Although a positive effect of plant diversity on soil organic carbon storage has been confirmed in grasslands and forests, it remains unclear whether this effect exists in wetlands. In this study, we investigated plant diversity, soil properties and soil organic carbon across five typical wetlands of northern China, to test the effect of plant diversity on soil organic carbon and clarified the regulators. Increasing plant diversity significantly increased belowground biomass of wetland plant communities, and both soil organic carbon content and storage were significantly positively related to wetland plant diversity. The positive effect of plant diversity was influence

SUBMITTER: Liu HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11646718 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature