scholarly journals Carbon stored in forest plantations in The Mariano Dámaso Beraún District, Huánuco – Perú

Yotantsipanko ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-43
Author(s):  
Juan Pablo Rengifo Trigozo ◽  
Luis Eduardo Oré Cierto ◽  
Wendy Caroline Loarte Aliaga ◽  
Juan Daniel Oré Cierto

The objective of the research work was to estimate the carbon stored in the forest plantations in the district of Mariano Dámaso Beraún, and for this allometric equations were used, which allowed determining the biomass and this, in turn, the above-ground carbon; Soil organic carbon (COS) was also estimated and the relationship between them was determined. The study was carried out in three 1,5 year old forest plantations, located in the following altitudinal strata: 787 masl (Quesada), 1.153 masl (Chincamayo) and 1.455 masl (Corazón de Jesús), located in the Mariano Dámaso Beraún district. , Leoncio Prado province, Huánuco department. The established species were: Schizolobium amazonicum Huber ex Ducke (spiny pine), Licaria trianda (Swartz) Kostermans (cinnamon moena), Inga edulis C. Martius (guaba), Swietenia macrophylla G. King (mahogany) and Juglans neotropica Diels (walnut); and as a result, the aerial biomass was 2,34 t/ha for the altitude of 787 msnm., 1,77 t/ha for the altitude of 1.153 msnm., and 1,63 t/ha for the altitude of 1.455 msnm.; therefore, the total airborne carbon stored was 1,17 t/ha for the altitude of 787 msnm., 0,89 t/ha for the altitude of 1.153 msnm., and 0,82 t/ha for the altitude of 1.455 msnm.; the total content of organic carbon in the soil was 67,22 t/ha for the altitude of 787 msnm., 68,77 t/ha for the altitude of 1.153 msnm., and 90,09 t/ha for the altitude of 1.455 msnm.; and according to Pearson's correlation, it indicates that there is no statistically significant relationship between the total airborne carbon content with the soil organic carbon in the district under study.

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaodan Sun ◽  
Gang Wang ◽  
Qingxu Ma ◽  
Jiahui Liao ◽  
Dong Wang ◽  
...  

Abstract Background Soil organic carbon (SOC) is important for soil quality and fertility in forest ecosystems. Labile SOC fractions are sensitive to environmental changes, which reflect the impact of short-term internal and external management measures on the soil carbon pool. Organic mulching (OM) alters the soil environment and promotes plant growth. However, little is known about the responses of SOC fractions in rhizosphere or bulk soil to OM in urban forests and its correlation with carbon composition in plants. Methods A one-year field experiment with four treatments (OM at 0, 5, 10, and 20 cm thicknesses) was conducted in a 15-year-old Ligustrum lucidum plantation. Changes in the SOC fractions in the rhizosphere and bulk soil; the carbon content in the plant fine roots, leaves, and organic mulch; and several soil physicochemical properties were measured. The relationships between SOC fractions and the measured variables were analysed. Results The OM treatments had no significant effect on the SOC fractions, except for the dissolved organic carbon (DOC). OM promoted the movement of SOC to deeper soil because of the increased carbon content in fine roots of subsoil. There were significant correlations between DOC and microbial biomass carbon and SOC and easily oxidised organic carbon. The OM had a greater effect on organic carbon fractions in the bulk soil than in the rhizosphere. The thinnest (5 cm) mulching layers showed the most rapid carbon decomposition over time. The time after OM had the greatest effect on the SOC fractions, followed by soil layer. Conclusions The frequent addition of small amounts of organic mulch increased SOC accumulation in the present study. OM is a potential management model to enhance soil organic matter storage for maintaining urban forest productivity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. e00367
Author(s):  
Patrick Filippi ◽  
Stephen R. Cattle ◽  
Matthew J. Pringle ◽  
Thomas F.A. Bishop

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Rosinger ◽  
Michael Bonkowski

AbstractFreeze–thaw (FT) events exert a great physiological stress on the soil microbial community and thus significantly impact soil biogeochemical processes. Studies often show ambiguous and contradicting results, because a multitude of environmental factors affect biogeochemical responses to FT. Thus, a better understanding of the factors driving and regulating microbial responses to FT events is required. Soil chronosequences allow more focused comparisons among soils with initially similar start conditions. We therefore exposed four soils with contrasting organic carbon contents and opposing soil age (i.e., years after restoration) from a postmining agricultural chronosequence to three consecutive FT events and evaluated soil biochgeoemical responses after thawing. The major microbial biomass carbon losses occurred after the first FT event, while microbial biomass N decreased more steadily with subsequent FT cycles. This led to an immediate and lasting decoupling of microbial biomass carbon:nitrogen stoichiometry. After the first FT event, basal respiration and the metabolic quotient (i.e., respiration per microbial biomass unit) were above pre-freezing values and thereafter decreased with subsequent FT cycles, demonstrating initially high dissimilatory carbon losses and less and less microbial metabolic activity with each iterative FT cycle. As a consequence, dissolved organic carbon and total dissolved nitrogen increased in soil solution after the first FT event, while a substantial part of the liberated nitrogen was likely lost through gaseous emissions. Overall, high-carbon soils were more vulnerable to microbial biomass losses than low-carbon soils. Surprisingly, soil age explained more variation in soil chemical and microbial responses than soil organic carbon content. Further studies are needed to dissect the factors associated with soil age and its influence on soil biochemical responses to FT events.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0245040
Author(s):  
Feng Zhang ◽  
Shihang Wang ◽  
Mingsong Zhao ◽  
Falv Qin ◽  
Xiaoyu Liu

Soil organic carbon content has a significant impact on soil fertility and grain yield, making it an important factor affecting agricultural production and food security. Dry farmland, the main type of cropland in China, has a lower soil organic carbon content than that of paddy soil, and it may have a significant carbon sequestration potential. Therefore, in this study we applied the CENTURY model to explore the temporal and spatial changes of soil organic carbon (SOC) in Jilin Province from 1985 to 2015. Dry farmland soil polygons were extracted from soil and land use layers (at the 1:1,000,000 scale). Spatial overlay analysis was also used to extract 1282 soil polygons from dry farmland. Modelled results for SOC dynamics in the dry farmland, in conjunction with those from the Yushu field-validation site, indicated a good level of performance. From 1985 to 2015, soil organic carbon density (SOCD) of dry farmland decreased from 34.36 Mg C ha−1 to 33.50 Mg C ha−1 in general, having a rate of deterioration of 0.03 Mg C ha−1 per year. Also, SOC loss was 4.89 Tg from dry farmland soils in the province, with a deterioration rate of 0.16 Tg C per year. 35.96% of the dry farmland its SOCD increased but 64.04% of the area released carbon. Moreover, SOC dynamics recorded significant differences between different soil groups. The method of coupling the CENTURY model with a detailed soil database can simulate temporal and spatial variations of SOC at a regional scale, and it can be used as a precise simulation method for dry farmland SOC dynamics.


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