Variability of soil carbon and nitrogen stocks after conversion of natural forest to plantations in Eastern China.

ABSTRACT: Forest plantation, either through afforestation or reforestation, has been suggested to reverse and mitigate the process of deforestation. However, uncertainties remain in the potential of plantation forest (PF) to sequestrate carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) compared to natural forest (NF). Soil C and N stocks require a critical and updated look at what is happening especially in the context of increasing rate of land use change and climate change. The current study was conducted in China's Eastern forest to estimate soil C and N stocks in six depth layers (0-10, 10-20, 20-40, 40-60, 60-80 and 80-100 cm) and two forest types (NF and PF) at four sites along climate factors gradient. The results showed that the overall mean soil C and N amounts to a depth of 20 cm ranged from 2.6 ± 1.1 Mg ha-1 t

SUBMITTER: Ngaba MJY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6979407 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature