2006
DOI: 10.1051/forest:2006034
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Comparison of ecosystem C pools in three forests in Spain and Latin America

Abstract: -To face the lack of information of C content in the main forest ecosystems pools from Spain and Latin America, this study compares C pools of three forest ecosystems: a tropical deciduous forest in Mexico, a tropical wet forest in Cuba and a temperate forest in Spain. The Cuban tropical wet forest had the highest total ecosystem C content (190 Mg C ha −1 ), of which 62% was in the aboveground biomass; followed by the Spanish temperate forest (150 Mg C ha −1 ) with around 75% of total C content was within soil… Show more

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“…The SOC of smaller scale, such as forest communities and ecosystems, is not considered enough, especially in the aspect of relation between SOC and forest composition and diversity. Composition of tree species has a pivotal effect on soil processes, including the cycling and accumulation of C (García-Oliva et al 2006;Díaz-Pinés et al 2011). For example, trees drive litterfall inputs, rhizodeposition, animal manure and rainfall distribution, soil temperature, and consequently they shift soil microbial quantity and activity (Simón et al 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The SOC of smaller scale, such as forest communities and ecosystems, is not considered enough, especially in the aspect of relation between SOC and forest composition and diversity. Composition of tree species has a pivotal effect on soil processes, including the cycling and accumulation of C (García-Oliva et al 2006;Díaz-Pinés et al 2011). For example, trees drive litterfall inputs, rhizodeposition, animal manure and rainfall distribution, soil temperature, and consequently they shift soil microbial quantity and activity (Simón et al 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Si bien el contenido de materia orgánica en este sitio es alto, la pérdida de suelo es de hasta 6 cm por año (aproximadamente 570 ton ha -1 año -1 ), además el contenido de nitrógeno en el suelo se estima en 0.36% en promedio (muy rico), este se pierde por lixiviación o por erosión hídrica, afectando a las poblaciones de BFNVL (Hernández et al, 2013). Aunque existen estudios que enumeran las ventajas de estos sistemas desde el punto vista ecológico, ambiental, social y económico, las condiciones de alta pendiente pueden ocasionar el arrastre de materia orgánica de la parte alta, mientras que la zona media queda parcialmente desprotegida en comparación con la parte alta y la parte baja, indicando que en la parte baja es donde existe una mayor acumulación de mantillo (García et al, 2006), mismo que se pierde en el corto plazo por efecto del arrastre por escurrimiento superficial y teniendo efectos significativos sobre el secuestro de carbono debidos a pendiente, altitud y características edáficas (Hernández-Vásquez, 2012). Esto pone en peligro la competitividad socioeconómica de estos cafetales con respecto al pago por servicios ambientales de estos agroecosistemas (Klooster & Masera, 2000;Ninan y Inoue, 2013) y las bacterias fijadoras de nitrógeno de vida libre (Mantilla-Paredes et al, 2009;Levy-Booth et al, 2014).…”
Section: Discussionunclassified
“…The C pools of these two forests were well documented by García-Oliva et al (2006). Although aboveground and total biomass values in the TDF are close to those in the MTF (Table 1), the TDF has less soil organic C content than its MTF counterpart (soil organic C pool is 35.2 Mg Cha −1 in TDF vs. 103 Mg Cha −1 in MTF); then, the total C pool in the tropical system is 45 % lower than in the MTF (82.6 Mg Cha −1 vs. 149 Mg Cha −1 ).…”
Section: Selected Forest Sitesmentioning
confidence: 98%