Soil organic carbon content and stocks in an age-sequence of Metasequoia glyptostroboides plantations in coastal area, East China
- DOI
- 10.2991/icseee-15.2016.178How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- SOC content and stocks; physical properties; chemical properties; stand age; coastal Metasequoia glyptostroboides plantations
- Abstract
Information on soil organic carbon (SOC) content and stocks is not available in coastal shelter forests, East China, although a large area of forests has been established there in the past 30 years. Dawn Redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides) is one of the most commonly tree species for shelter plantation in eastern coasts of China, but it is unknown on the temporal distribution of SOC content and stock in the M. glyptostroboides plantations. In this study, SOC contents and stocks, and soil properties were determined in an age-sequence (23, 27, and 33 years old) of M. glyptostroboides plantations in Shanghai, East China. SOC content and stocks increased gradually with the increasing stand age, and the total SOC stocks in the depth of 0-100 cm increased by 53.20% with stand age from 23 to 33 years stand. Meanwhile, SOC showed good relationships with soil physical properties (such as soil particle composition) and chemical properties (such as soil nitrogen and potassium concentrations). Our results indicate that afforestation with M. glyptostroboides can promote SOC content and stocks and improve nutrient conditions in coastal lands, and provide data for estimating ecosystem carbon stocks of coastal shelter forests in China.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Lei Zhang AU - Peng Zhang AU - Mukui Yu AU - Tonggui Wu PY - 2016/04 DA - 2016/04 TI - Soil organic carbon content and stocks in an age-sequence of Metasequoia glyptostroboides plantations in coastal area, East China BT - Proceedings of the 2015 4th International Conference on Sustainable Energy and Environmental Engineering PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1004 EP - 1012 SN - 2352-5401 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icseee-15.2016.178 DO - 10.2991/icseee-15.2016.178 ID - Zhang2016/04 ER -