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Accumulation of soil organic carbon and total nitrogen in Pinus yunnanensis forests at different age stages.

MIAO Juan1,4, ZHOU Chuan-yan2,5, LI Shi-jie3, YAN Jun-hua1   

  1. (1South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China; 2Institute of Mountain Resources, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, Guiyang 550001, China; 3Guizhou Forest Inventory and Planning Institute, Guiyang 550003, China; 4University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 5College of Environment and Energy, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China)
  • Online:2014-03-18 Published:2014-03-18

Abstract: Taking three Pinus yunnanensis forests at different ages (19, 28 and 45 a) in Panxian County of Guizhou Province as test objects, we investigated vertical distributions and accumulation rates of soil organic carbon (SOC) and total nitrogen (TN), as well as their relationships with soil bulk density. For the three forests at different age stages, SOC and TN changed consistently along the soil profile, dec〖JP〗lining with the soil depth. Both SOC and TN storage increased with the forest age. The SOC and TN storage amounts were 96.24, 121.65 and 148.13 t·hm-2, and 10.76, 12.96 and 13.08 t·hm-2 for the forest stands with 19 a, 28 a and 45 a, respectively. SOC had a significant positive correlation with soil TN, while both of them had a significant negative relationship with the soil bulk density. The accumulation rates of both SOC and TN storage at different growth periods were different, and the rate in the period from age 19 to 28  was higher than in the period from age 28 to 45.