Carbon sequestration in soil particle-sized fractions during reversion of desertification at Mu Us Sand land.

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.201611.022

Abstract

Abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of carbon sequestration in soil particle-sized fractions during reversion of desertification at Mu Us Sand Land, soil samples were collected from quicksand land, semifixed sand and fixed sand lands that were established by the shrub for 20-55 year-old and the arbor for 20-50 year-old at sand control region of Yulin in Northern Shaanxi Province. The dynamics and sequestration rate of soil organic carbon (SOC) associated with sand, silt and clay were measured by physical fractionation method. The results indicated that, compared with quicksand area, the carbon content in total SOC and all soil particle-sized fractions at bothsand-fixing sand forest lands showed a significant increasing trend, and the maximum carbon content was observed in the top layer of soils. From quicksand to fixed sand land with 55-year-old shrub and 50-year-old arbor, the annual sequestration rate of carbon stock in 0-5 cm soil depth was same in silt by 0.05 Mg·hm^-2·a^-1. The increase rate of carbon sequestration in sand was 0.05 and 0.08 Mg·hm^-2·a^-1, and in clay was 0.02 and 0.03 Mg·hm^-2·a^-1 at shrubs and arbors land, respectively. The increase rate of carbon sequestration in 0-20 cm soil layer for all the soil particles was averagely 2.1 times as that of 0-5 cm. At the annual increase rate of carbon, the stock of carbon in sand, silt and clay at the two fixed sand lands were increased by 6.7, 18.1 and 4.4 times after 50-55 year-old reversion of quicksand land to fixed sand. In addition, the average percentages that contributed to accumulation of total SOC by different particles in 0-20 cm soil were in the order of silt carbon (39.7%)≈sand carbon (34.6%) > clay carbon (25.6%). Generally, the soil particle-sized fractions had great carbon sequestration potential during reversion of desertification in Mu Us Sand Land, and the slit and sand were the main fractions for carbon sequestration at both fixed sand lands.

Key words: soil organic carbon, reversion of desertification, carbon sequestration, soil particle

MA Jian-ye, TONG Xiao-gang, LI Zhan-bin, FU Guang-jun, LI Jiao, Hasier. Carbon sequestration in soil particle-sized fractions during reversion of desertification at Mu Us Sand land.[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2016, 27(11): 3487-3494.

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