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WU Ya-cong, LI Zheng-cai, CHENG Cai-fang, LIU Rong-jie, WANG Bin, GERI Le-tu
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Abstract: Taking a 48-year-old Cinnamomum camphora plantation in the eastern area of our subtropics as test object, this paper studied the labile organic carbon contents and their ratios to the total organic carbon (TOC) in 0-60 cm soil layer under effects of understory removal (UR). As compared with no understory removal (CK), the soil TOC and easilyoxidized carbon (EOC) contents under UR decreased, with a decrement of 4.8%-34.1% and 27.1%-36.2%, respectively, and the TOC and EOC contents had a significant difference in 0-10 cm and 0-20 cm layers, respectively. The watersoluble organic carbon (WSOC) (except in 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm layers) and light fraction organic matter (LFOM) under UR increaesd, but the difference was not significant. The ratio of soil WSOC to soil TOC in UR stand was higher than that in CK stand, while the ratio of soil EOC to soil TOC showed an opposite trend. In the two stands, soil WSOC, EOC, and LFOM had significant or extremely significant correlations with soil TOC, and the correlation coefficients of soil EOC and LFOM with soil TOC were higher in UR stand than in CK, but the correlation coefficient between soil WSOC and TOC was in opposite. The soil EOC, LFOM, and TOC in the two stands were significantly or extremely significantly correlated with soil nutrients, but the soil WSOC in UR stand had no significant correlations with soil hydrolyzable N, available P, exchangeable Ca, and exchangeable Mg.
WU Ya-cong, LI Zheng-cai, CHENG Cai-fang, LIU Rong-jie, WANG Bin, GERI Le-tu. Effects of understory removal on soil labile organic carbon pool in a Cinnamomum camphora plantation.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology.
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