Relations between the underground biomass and soil organic carbon and nitrogen of the alpine meadow at the Eastern Margin of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

2008 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 324-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Linan Gao
Author(s):  
Lu Han ◽  
Zhongmei Wan ◽  
Yuedong Guo ◽  
Changchun Song ◽  
Shaofei Jin ◽  
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Wetlands regulate the balance of global organic carbon. Small changes in the carbon stocks of wetland ecosystem play a crucial role in the regional soil carbon cycle. However, an accurate estimation of carbon stocks is still be debated for China’s wetlands ecosystem due to the limitation of data collection and methodology. Here, we investigate the soil organic carbon (SOC) storage in a 1-m depth in China’s palustrine wetlands. A total of 1383 sample data were collected from palustrine wetlands in China. The data sources are divided into three parts, respectively, data collection from published literature, data from books, and actual measurement data of sample points. The results demonstrate that there is considerable SOC storage in China’s palustrine wetlands (9.945 Pg C), primarily abundant in the northeast, northwest arid and semi-arid as well as Qinghai-Tibet Plateau regions. The SOC density in per unit area soil was higher in the wetland area of northeast, southwest and Qinghai-Tibet plateau. Within China terrestrial scale, the temperature and precipitation differences caused by latitude were the main environmental factors affecting the organic carbon content. Furthermore, except for the southeast and south wetland region, SOC content decreased with depth.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (23) ◽  
pp. 11999-12010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul-Rauf Malimanga Alhassan ◽  
Weiwei Ma ◽  
Guang Li ◽  
Zhirong Jiang ◽  
Jiangqi Wu ◽  
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2016 ◽  
Vol 43 (19) ◽  
pp. 10,286-10,294 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. C. Mu ◽  
T. J. Zhang ◽  
Q. Zhao ◽  
H. Guo ◽  
W. Zhong ◽  
...  

Soil Research ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (8) ◽  
pp. 730 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junhong Bai ◽  
Hua Ouyang ◽  
Rong Xiao ◽  
Junqin Gao ◽  
Haifeng Gao ◽  
...  

This study considers the spatial variability of soil organic carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus storage in a drained alpine wetland and the possible relationships with soil properties. Top 0–0.30 m soil samples were collected in a typical alpine wetland in the south-eastern Qinghai–Tibet plateau using grid sampling. There was high spatial variability for soil organic carbon density (SOCD), soil total nitrogen density (STND), and soil total phosphorous density (STPD) in the drained alpine wetland. Spherical models best described the structure of the semivariograms for SOCD and STPD, and an exponential model for STND, with the range parameter of <4 m. Similar spatial distribution with lower or higher patches of C, N, and P storage were observed. SOCD, STND, and STPD were significantly negatively correlated with soil moisture (P < 0.01), and significantly positively correlated with bulk density (P < 0.01). However, no significant correlations were observed between SOCD, STND, and STPD and soil pH values. Wetland drainage might lead to higher C, N, and P densities in top 0.30 m soils due to peat compaction; thus, it is necessary to incorporate water table fluctuations or the whole depth of peat layers to estimating precisely C, N and P storage.


CATENA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 197 ◽  
pp. 104955
Author(s):  
Licong Dai ◽  
Ruiyu Fu ◽  
Xiaowei Guo ◽  
Yangong Du ◽  
Li Lin ◽  
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