Effect of afforestation of agricultural soils and tree species composition on soil physical characteristics changes

Vopravil, Jan; Podrázský, Vílém; Khel, Tomáš; Holubík, Ondřej; Vacek, Stanislav

doi:10.2478/eko-2014-0008

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“…Thus, arable lands in this territory after conversing of forest do not have suitable BD. Also, the hypotheses that BD will decrease after afforestation is not supported by our results (recovered AL), and contradicts the conclusions from other studies [38,39], but agrees with the work of Vopravil et al [40] which found that previously arable horizon characteristics can persist for a long time. There is also probability that in this study, the abandonment age is too short to see the gradual restoration of BD after afforestation which is shown in [41].…”

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Changes of Soil C Stock under Establishment and Abandonment of Arable Lands in Permafrost Area—Central Yakutia

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Central Yakutia is in one of the most northern agricultural centers of the world. In this territory a notable area of arable land was made by removing the boreal Taiga with the primary purpose of crop cultivation. Such a method of cultivation significantly changes soil total carbon (STC, soil organic carbon + soil carbonate carbon) balance, because of the destroyed upper humus horizon. Soil organic carbon (SOC) of cultivated arable lands is almost a half of that in forest. In abandoned arable lands with grass vegetation, the recovery of SOC has increased to 30% in comparison with cultivated arable lands. On arable lands recovering with new growth of trees, the SOC is related to the abandonment period. Soil carbonates carbon (SCC) content was significantly lower than SOC and showed significant difference among abandoned and other types of arable lands. Objectives of this study are to identify how STC stocks change in response to conversion of the forests to agricultural land and to analyze the arable land system's recovery process after abandonment. Furthermore, after transformation of forest to arable land, a significant decrease of STC was observed, primarily due to mechanical loss after plant residue removal. It was also identified that the restoration and self-recovery of STC in abandoned arable lands of Central Yakutia continuously and slightly increase. Grass vegetation regenerates STC for 20 years. While the difference of average STC of forests and cultivated arable lands reached 41%, a new growth of forest on some abandoned arable land follows the tendency of STC decrease due to a low productivity level and suppressing effect on grass vegetation.

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Changes of Soil C Stock under Establishment and Abandonment of Arable Lands in Permafrost Area—Central Yakutia

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“…Different factors explaining variation of forest herbaceous layer were studied previously, for example, soil properties and overstorey structure (Zhukov et al, 2019). On the other hand, biotic factors as vegetation type and presence/absence of some groups of organisms are also important for soil processes and soil characteristics changes (Vopravil et al, 2014). The results of our study also explained the reasons of observed variable scale variation of this layer in different forest communities.…”

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How Does the Engineering Species Affect Forest Ecosystems? Changes in Germination and Development Rate of Non-Forest Species Under the Nests of Ardea cinerea L.

Hryń

Czarnecka

Kitowski

et al. 2020

Ekológia (Bratislava)

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An ecosystem engineer is a species that indirectly changes the availability of resources for other organisms via physical modification of the habitat. A good example of such species is Ardea cinerea L. – a big waterbird that forms colonies up to a few hundreds of nests during the breeding season. The colonies modify the habitat in the close vicinity of the nests mainly through heavy input of organic matter (feces, dropped or regurgitated food leftovers, eggshells, dead birds, etc.), which in turn affects vegetation. In our previous study, we observed that the probability of occurrence of non-forest species under the nests was 29.5 times higher in control plots in two types of forest vegetation (oligotrophic pine forest and riparian mixed forest). Adaptation for long-distance dispersal turned out to be insignificant for the probability of species occurrence, which suggested that the diaspores of those species must have been present in the forest soil before the establishment of the grey heron colony. In the present study, we used the seedling emergence method to compare the structure of the soil seed bank in breeding sites and control plots in two forest ecosystems mentioned above. We also tested whether the increased amount of nitrates in soil had a positive effect on the rate of germination and growth of seedlings. The results have shown that some reservoir of ruderal species was indeed present in the control plots, although their amount was higher under the heronries. We have proved that the number of germinating seeds of ruderal species depends on the concentration of nitrate in the soil of the pine forest. Comparison of the dry weight of 30- and 60-day-old seedlings of Rumex acetosella (pine forest) and Betula pendula (riparian forest) from the control and breeding sites showed an increased size of seedlings coming from the breeding sites of both forest communities.

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“…The affinity and dependence of different plant species on different mycorrhizal fungi are very different. Therefore, in the process of afforestation, the best combination of tree species and mycorrhizal fungi should be screened firstly (Vopravil et al 2014). Therefore, the C. geophilum strains are suitable for forestation and afforestation, which will have a profound impact on the construction of plantation in China, provide a scientific basis for the theory and practice of vegetation restoration, and has a strong promotion and application value.…”

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Effects of Cenococcum Geophilum on the Growth of Seedlings Of Ostryopsis Davidiana Dence. And Pinus Tabuleaformis Carr.

Yao

Tie

et al. 2021

Bangladesh J. Bot.

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The affinity and promoting ability of the Cenococcum geophilum strains (CgSO1, CgSB2, CgO5, SPOP2 and Cg5 #) to Ostryopsis davidiana and Pinus tabulaeformis were studied. The results showed that the tested strains formed ectomycorrhizae（ECM）with O. davidiana except the Cg5 # strain and the infection rates were 40-50%. CgSO1 and CgSPOP2 formed ECM with P. tabulaeformis and the infection rates were 10.3 and 12.4%, respectively. C. geophilum can promote the growth of the two host plant seedlings, especially for root growth. Results proved that the affinity of different strains to host plants and the affinity of the same strain to different host plants are different. Bangladesh J. Bot. 50(3): 679-683, 2021 (September)

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Effect of afforestation of agricultural soils and tree species composition on soil physical characteristics changes

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Changes of Soil C Stock under Establishment and Abandonment of Arable Lands in Permafrost Area—Central Yakutia

Changes of Soil C Stock under Establishment and Abandonment of Arable Lands in Permafrost Area—Central Yakutia

How Does the Engineering Species Affect Forest Ecosystems? Changes in Germination and Development Rate of Non-Forest Species Under the Nests of Ardea cinerea L.

Effects of Cenococcum Geophilum on the Growth of Seedlings Of Ostryopsis Davidiana Dence. And Pinus Tabuleaformis Carr.

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