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Using 137Cs and 210Pbex to trace the impact of soil erosion on  soil organic carbon at a slope farmland in the  black soil region

FANG Hai-yan, SHENG Mei-ling, SUN Li-ying, CAI Qiang-guo   

  1. (Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China)
  • Online:2013-07-18 Published:2013-07-18

Abstract: Soil cores were collected from a 28.5 hm2 slope farmland in the black soil region of Northeast China. Based on the sampled data of 137Cs, 210Pbex and SOC, the potentials of applying 137Cs and 210Pbex for assessing SOC redistribution were evaluated, aimed to approach the impact of soil erosion on soil organic carbon (SOC) in black soil region. At both planar and vertical directions, the 137Cs,210Pbex and SOC in the farmland had similar distribution patterns. Although there were large planar variations in the 137Cs and 210Pbex areal activities and the SOC stock as affected by soil erosion and deposition, the 137Cs, 210Pbex and SOC had similar changing trends over the landscape. Two depth distribution profiles were also used to  study the relations of 137Cs and 210Pbex with SOC. At eroded site, the radioactivities of 137Cs and 210Pbex and the SOC mass fraction did not show large variations in 0-25 cm soil layer, but decreased sharply below 25 cm. For the deposition sample, the radioactivities of 137Cs and 210Pbex in 0-100 cm soil increased firstly and then decreased. The SOC mass fraction also had similar depth distribution pattern in this soil layer. The 137Cs and 210Pbex presented positive linear correlations with the SOC, indicating that 137Cs, 210Pbex and SOC moved with the same physical mechanism in the farmland, and fallout 137Cs and 210Pbex could be used to study spatiotemporal distribution characteristics of SOC in the black soil region under the condition of soil erosion.