Successive walnut plantations alter soil carbon quantity and quality by modifying microbial communities and enzyme activities.

ABSTRACT: Knowledge of the spatial-temporal variations of soil organic carbon (SOC) quantity and quality and its microbial regulation mechanisms is essential for long-term SOC sequestration in agroecosystems; nevertheless, this information is lacking in the process of walnut plantations. Here, we used the modified Walkley-Black method, phospholipid fatty acid analysis, and micro-plate enzyme technique to analyze the evolution of SOC stocks and quality/lability as well as microbial communities and enzyme activities at different soil depths in walnut plantations with a chronosequence of 0-, 7-, 14-, and 21-years in the Eastern Taihang Mountains, China. The results indicated that long-term walnut plantations (14-and 21-years) enhanced SOC stocks, improved SOC quality/lability (as indicated by the labil

SUBMITTER: Luan H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9358653 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature