Characteristics and composition of vegetation carbon storage in natural grassland in Ning-xia, China.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202104.005

Abstract

Abstract: We measured the total vegetation carbon stock in the widely distributed natural grassland of meadow steppe (MS), warm steppe (WS), steppe desert (SD) and desert steppe (DS)] in Ningxia, using survey and sampling method. The results showed that the average carbon rate of vege-tation, shrubs and root were 0.40, and that of litter was 0.39. The total vegetation carbon density of meadow steppe, warm steppe, steppe desert and desert steppe (including aboveground vegetation, litter and roots) was 470.26, 192.23, 117.17 and 83.36 g·m^-2, while that of aboveground vegetation was 87.35, 68.50, 59.32 and 40.05 g·m^-2, and that of roots was 344.29, 108.83, 50.65 and 30.29 g·m^-2, litter carbon storage was 38.62,14.91, 7.19 and 13.03 g·m^-2, respectively. The order of those grassland types ranked as MS＞WS＞SD＞DS. Root carbon storage contributed the most to carbon storage in meadow steppe and warm steppe, and aboveground vegetation carbon storage contributed the most to steppe desert and desert steppe. Root carbon storage showed a decreasing trend with the increases of soil depth within 40 cm soil layer. For the spatial distribution of total carbon stock, the southern part of meadow steppe and temperate steppe had obviously higher carbon stock than the middle and north part of desert steppe and steppe desert.

Key words: Ningxia, natural grassland, vegetation carbon storage, carbon distribution

JI Bo, HE Jian-long, WANG Zhan-jun, JIANG Qi. Characteristics and composition of vegetation carbon storage in natural grassland in Ning-xia, China.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2021, 32(4): 1259-1268.

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