Degradation of Riparian Forest Affects Soil Properties and Ecosystem Services Provision in Eastern Amazon of Brazil

Abstract. Urban soils are of increasing interest for their potential to provide ecosystem services such as carbon storage and nutrient cycling. Despite this, there is limited knowledge on how soil sealing with impervious surfaces, a common disturbance in urban environments, affects these important ecosystem services. In this paper, we investigate the effect of soil sealing on soil properties, soil carbon and soil nutrient stocks. We undertook a comparative survey of sealed and unsealed green space soils across the UK city of Manchester. Our results reveal that the context of urban soil and the anthropogenic artefacts added to soil have a great influence on soil properties and functions. In general, sealing reduced soil carbon and nutrient stocks compared to green space soil; however, where there were anthropogenic additions of organic and mineral artefacts, this led to increases in soil carbon and nitrate content. Anthropogenic additions led to carbon stocks equivalent to or larger than those in green spaces; this was likely a result of charcoal additions, leading to carbon stores with long residence times. This suggests that in areas with an industrial past, anthropogenic additions can lead to a legacy carbon store in urban soil and make important contributions to urban soil carbon budgets. These findings shed light on the heterogeneity of urban sealed soil and the influence of anthropogenic artefacts on soil functions. Our research highlights the need to gain a further understanding of urban soil processes, in both sealed and unsealed soils, and of the influence and legacy of anthropogenic additions for soil functions and important ecosystem services.

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Sustainability, certification, and regulation of biochar

Pesquisa Agropecuária Brasileira ◽

10.1590/s0100-204x2012000500003 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 47 (5) ◽

pp. 649-653 ◽

Cited By ~ 20

Author(s):

Frank G. A. Verheijen ◽

Luca Montanarella ◽

Ana Catarina Bastos

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Soil Properties ◽

Socioeconomic Factors ◽

Half Life ◽

Global Scale ◽

Soil Sampling ◽

Temporal Scales ◽

Certification Procedure ◽

Time Periods ◽

And Behavior

Biochar has a relatively long half-life in soil and can fundamentally alter soil properties, processes, and ecosystem services. The prospect of global-scale biochar application to soils highlights the importance of a sophisticated and rigorous certification procedure. The objective of this work was to discuss the concept of integrating biochar properties with environmental and socioeconomic factors, in a sustainable biochar certification procedure that optimizes complementarity and compatibility between these factors over relevant time periods. Biochar effects and behavior should also be modelled at temporal scales similar to its expected functional lifetime in soils. Finally, when existing soil data are insufficient, soil sampling and analysis procedures need to be described as part of a biochar certification procedure.

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Development of an IoT system for sensing monitoring of soil properties

10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-12860 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Byeongchul Lee ◽

Kyoung Jae Lim ◽

Jae E Yang ◽

Dong Seok Yang ◽

Jiyoeng Hong

Keyword(s):

Big Data ◽

Ecosystem Services ◽

Soil Properties ◽

Real Time ◽

System Analysis ◽

Vital Role ◽

Data System ◽

Soil Sensors ◽

Soil Ecosystem Services ◽

Time Basis

<p>In the age of big data, constructing a database plays a vital role in various fields. Especially, in the agricultural and environmental fields, real-time databases are useful because the fields are easily affected by dynamic nature phenomena. To construct a real-time database in these fields, various sensors and an Internet of Things (IoT) system have been widely used. In this study, an IoT system was developed to construct soil properties database on a real-time basis and aim to a big data system analysis that can assess ecosystem services provided from soil resources. The IoT system consisted of three types of soil sensors, main devices, sensor connectors, and subsidiary devices. The IoT system can measure soil temperature, moisture, and electrical conductivity (EC) data on a five-minute interval. Also, the devices were applied to two test-beds near Chuncheon city in South Korea and have been testing for the stability and availability of the system. In a further study, we will add various soil sensors and functions into the developed IoT system to improve their availability. If the developed IoT system becomes to be stable and functional, it can contribute to constructing soil properties database on a real-time basis and a big data system that assesses soil ecosystem services.</p>

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Decomposition and stabilization of organic matter in an old-growth tropical riparian forest: effects of soil properties and vegetation structure

10.21203/rs.3.rs-61797/v3 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Pedro Fernandes ◽

Andrea Teixeira Souza ◽

Marcel Tanaka ◽

Renata Sebastiani

Keyword(s):

Soil Properties ◽

Forest Structure ◽

Riparian Forest ◽

Chemical Properties ◽

Clay Content ◽

Small Scale ◽

Decomposition Rates ◽

Old Growth ◽

Scale Factors ◽

Stabilization Factor

Abstract Background: Nutrient cycling in tropical forests has a large importance for primary productivity, and decomposition of litterfall is a major process influencing nutrient balance in forest soils. Although large-scale factors strongly influence decomposition patterns, small-scale factors can have major influences, especially in old-growth forests that have high structural complexity and strong plant-soil correlations. Here we evaluated the effects of forest structure and soil properties on decomposition rates and stabilization of soil organic matter using the Tea Bag Index in an old-growth riparian forest in southeastern Brazil. These data sets were described separately using Principal Components Analysis (PCA). The main axes for each analysis, together with soil physical properties (clay content and soil moisture), were used to construct structural equations models that evaluated the different parameters of the TBI, decomposition rates and stabilization factor. The best model was selected using Akaike’s criterion.Results: Forest structure and soil physical and chemical properties presented large variation among plots within the studied forest. Clay content was strongly correlated with soil moisture and the first PCA axis of soil chemical properties, and model selection indicated that clay content was a better predictor than this axis. Decomposition rates presented a large variation among tea bags (0.009 and 0.098 g g-1 day-1) and were positively related with forest structure, as characterized by higher basal area, tree density and larger trees. The stabilization factor varied between 0.211 – 0.426 and was related to forest stratification and soil clay content.Conclusions: The old-growth forest studied presented high heterogeneity in both forest structure and soil properties at small spatial scales, that influenced decomposition processes and probably contributed to small-scale variation in nutrient cycling. Decomposition rates were only influenced by forest structure, whereas the stabilization factor was influenced by both forest structure and soil properties. Heterogeneity in ecological processes can contribute to the resilience of old-growth forests, highlighting the importance of restoration strategies that consider the spatial variation of ecosystem processes.

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Assessment of six soil ecosystem services by coupling simulation modelling and field measurement of soil properties

Ecological Indicators ◽

10.1016/j.ecolind.2020.107211 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 121 ◽

pp. 107211

Author(s):

Yosra Ellili-Bargaoui ◽

Christian Walter ◽

Blandine Lemercier ◽

Didier Michot

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Soil Properties ◽

Field Measurement ◽

Simulation Modelling ◽

Soil Ecosystem ◽

Soil Ecosystem Services

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Ecological functions of vegetation as potentials of ecosystem services (floodplain alder forest in the Tríbeč microregion)

Journal of Forest Science ◽

10.17221/58/2016-jfs ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 63 (No. 3) ◽

pp. 126-135

Author(s):

Eliáš Pavol ◽

Mariničová Patrícia

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Aboveground Biomass ◽

Therapeutic Potential ◽

Riparian Forest ◽

Water Reservoir ◽

Forest Community ◽

Economic Evaluations ◽

Ecological Functions ◽

Black Alder ◽

Alder Forest

Ecological functions of a black alder riparian forest (Aegopodio-Alnetum glutinosae) as capacities for the provision of ecosystem services were analysed and indicated by an inductive (bottom-up) approach. In July 2015, species richness and diversity of the forest stand were analysed in Hlboká valley, near Husárka water reservoir, Tríbeč Mountains, western Slovakia, by phytocoenological relevé, aboveground biomass of the herb layer and litter mass were estimated by a harvest method. The quantitative data obtained for the forest vegetation were used for estimation of capacities (potentials) of the floodplain forest to provide non-market ecosystem services. The forage, melliferous and therapeutic potential were estimated and calculated by Jurko’s methods of ecological and socio-economic evaluations of vegetation. Aboveground biomass (production potential) of the forest understorey community was relatively high (seasonal maximum standing crop 59.03 g·m<sup>–2</sup> in dry mass). The result of evaluation of the forage potential of the alder forest was higher than 50%, it means medium forage quality community. The melliferous potential was evaluated close to 190% (= high potential). The share of medicinal plants in the studied plant community was higher than 30%, referred to as extremely rich therapeutic potential. The analyses confirmed that the forest community represents high potentials for providing production ecosystem services.

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The effects of sealing on urban soil carbon and nutrients

10.5194/soil-2021-18 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Roisin O'Riordan ◽

Jess Davies ◽

Carly Stevens ◽

John N. Quinton

Keyword(s):

Ecosystem Services ◽

Soil Properties ◽

Soil Carbon ◽

Urban Soil ◽

Great Influence ◽

Soil Nutrient ◽

Nitrate Content ◽

Soil Functions ◽

Soil Sealing ◽

Nutrient Stocks

Abstract. Urban soils are of increasing interest for their potential to provide ecosystem services such as carbon storage and nutrient cycling. Despite this, there is limited knowledge on how soil sealing with impervious surfaces, a common disturbance in urban environments, affects these important ecosystem services. In this paper, we investigate the effect of soil sealing on soil properties, soil carbon and soil nutrient stocks. We undertook a comparative survey of sealed and unsealed greenspace soils across the UK city of Manchester. Our results reveal that the context of urban soil and the anthropogenic artefacts added to soil have a great influence on soil properties and functions. In general, sealing reduced soil carbon and nutrient stocks compared to greenspace soil, however, where there were anthropogenic additions of organic and mineral artefacts this led to increases in soil carbon and nitrate content. Anthropogenic additions led to carbon stocks equivalent to or larger than those in greenspaces, potentially of a stable nature with long residence times. This suggests that in areas with an industrial past, anthropogenic additions can lead to a legacy carbon store in urban soil and make important contributions to urban soil carbon budgets. These findings shed light on the heterogeneity of urban sealed soil and the influence of anthropogenic artefacts on soil functions. Our research highlights the need to gain further understanding into urban soil processes, in both sealed and unsealed soils, and the influence and legacy of anthropogenic additions on soil functions and important ecosystem services.

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