Experience with patterns of change in soil carbon resulting from forest plantation establishment in eastern Australia

Turner, John; Lambert, Marcia J.; Johnson, Dale W.

doi:10.1016/j.foreco.2005.08.025

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“…Studies in southern Australia (e.g. Turner and Lambert, 2000;Turner et al, 2005) also reported reductions in SOC stocks following land-use conversion to conifer plantations. Further, in the sub-tropics, Chen et al (2004) and Richards et al (2007) reported significant reductions in total SOC following conversion of native vegetation to hoop pine (Araucaria cunninghamii, a native species to the region) plantations.…”

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Conversion of sub-tropical native vegetation to introduced conifer forest: Impacts on below-ground and above-ground carbon pools

Lewis

Smith

Hogg

et al. 2016

Forest Ecology and Management

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a b s t r a c tLand-use change can have a major influence on soil organic carbon (SOC) and above-ground C pools. We assessed a change from native vegetation to introduced Pinus species plantations on C pools using eight paired sites. At each site we determined the impacts on 0-50 cm below-ground (SOC, charcoal C, organic matter C, particulate organic C, humic organic C, resistant organic C) and above-ground (litter, coarse woody debris, standing trees and woody understorey plants) C pools. In an analysis across the different study sites there was no significant difference (P > 0.05) in SOC or above-ground tree C stocks between paired native vegetation and pine plantations, although significant differences did exist at specific sites. SOC (calculated based on an equivalent soil mass basis) was higher in the pine plantations at two sites, higher in the native vegetation at two sites and did not differ for the other four sites. The site to site variation in SOC across the landscape was far greater than the variation observed with a change from native vegetation to introduced Pinus plantation. Differences between sites were not explained by soil type, although tree basal area was positively correlated with 0-50 cm SOC. In fact, in the native vegetation there was a significant linear relationship between above-ground biomass and SOC that explained 88.8% of the variation in the data. Fine litter C (0-25 mm diameter) tended to be higher in the pine forest than in the adjacent native vegetation and was significantly higher in the pine forest at five of the eight paired sites. Total litter C (0-100 mm diameter) increased significantly with plantation age (R 2 = 0.64).Carbon stored in understorey woody plants (2.5-10 cm DBH) was higher in the native vegetation than in the adjacent pine forest. Total site C varied greatly across the study area from 58.8 Mg ha À1 at a native heathland site to 497.8 Mg ha À1 at a native eucalypt forest site. Our findings suggest that the effects of change from native vegetation to introduced Pinus sp. forest are highly site-specific and may be positive, negative, or have no influence on various C pools, depending on local site characteristics (e.g. plantation age and type of native vegetation). Crown

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Conversion of sub-tropical native vegetation to introduced conifer forest: Impacts on below-ground and above-ground carbon pools

Lewis

Smith

Hogg

et al. 2016

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…The initial decline was observed for 3-35 years following the agricultural abandonment (Aweto 1981;Zak et al 1990;Richter et al 1999). Over time soil organic matter input increases with the productivity of the forest stands and soils switch from being a C source to a C sink (Zak et al 1990;Trouve et al 1994;Bashkiin & Binkley 1998;Paul et al 2002;Vesterdal et al 2002;Turner et al 2005;Ritter 2007;Hu et al 2008;Laganiere et al 2010;Mao et al 2010).…”

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Effect of agricultural lands afforestation and tree species composition on the soil reaction, total organic carbon and nitrogen content in the uppermost mineral soil profile

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“…No entanto, muitos desses estudos levam em consideração apenas camadas superficiais do solo. Turner & Lambert (2000) e Turner et al (2005), por exemplo, levam em consideração apenas as camadas de 0-10 e 0-50 cm de profundidade. Para essas camadas, eles encontraram padrões semelhantes aos das camadas superficiais deste estudo, com perda inicial de C e tendência de recuperação ao longo do tempo.…”

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Mudanças na matéria orgânica do solo causadas pelo tempo de adoção de um sistema agrossilvopastoril com eucalipto

Vergütz

Novais

Silva

et al. 2010

Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo

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Experience with patterns of change in soil carbon resulting from forest plantation establishment in eastern Australia

Cited by 60 publications

References 12 publications

Conversion of sub-tropical native vegetation to introduced conifer forest: Impacts on below-ground and above-ground carbon pools

Conversion of sub-tropical native vegetation to introduced conifer forest: Impacts on below-ground and above-ground carbon pools

Effect of agricultural lands afforestation and tree species composition on the soil reaction, total organic carbon and nitrogen content in the uppermost mineral soil profile

Mudanças na matéria orgânica do solo causadas pelo tempo de adoção de um sistema agrossilvopastoril com eucalipto

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