Former agriculture impacts on properties of Norway spruce forest

Kacálek, D.; Dušek, D.; Novák, Jiří; Slodičák, M.; Bartoš, Jan; Černohous, V.; Balcar, V.

doi:10.5424/fs/20112003-11042

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“…After afforestation of the agricultural soil, a considerable part of the accumulated carbon is concentrated in the upper layers, gradually formed by forest litter; its formation and accumulation is noticeable already in young stands (Kacálek et al 2011). In the phase immediately following the afforestation of agricultural land, there is a slight decrease in soil organic carbon.…”

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“…All computations were performed in R software (R Core Team 2016). other benefits such as higher timber mass production or higher biodiversity Woziwoda et al 2014;Vacek et al 2016;Cukor et al 2017a;Vacek et al 2017) -significantly increase the carbon content bound in the ecosystem (Kacálek et al 2011), which in turn contributes to reducing carbon concentrations in the atmosphere (Novara et al 2014;Woziwoda et al 2014).…”

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Carbon sequestration in soil following afforestation of former agricultural land in the Czech Republic

Cukor

Vacek

Linda

et al. 2017

Central European Forestry Journal

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Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a great component of the global carbon cycle and plays significant role in terms of climatic changes and agricultural land-use. An important management concern is the extent of SOC stocks sequestration when farmland is converted to forest stands. We have reviewed the literature about changes in SOC stock in relation to altitude and stand age and sought differences between former agricultural land and origin forest stands. Accumulation of SOC was monitored in 17 examples (41 samples) in 9 locations across the all Czech Republic with focus on the main tree species Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst.). Results showed a significant increase of SOC stock in an afforested farmland with increasing stand age. Another factor was the altitude. With increasing altitude, the carbon stock in our model gradually decreased. From the data analyzed comparing forest stand and former agricultural land, similar carbon sequestration was documented for both variants with higher SOC for forest stands. However, other conditions affecting SOC stock should be taken into consideration, especially silvicultural management, topography, disturbances, soil properties and cultivation. The general tendencies of SOC changes at the investigated sites are comparable to those in other studies across the Europe.

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Carbon sequestration in soil following afforestation of former agricultural land in the Czech Republic

Cukor

Vacek

Linda

et al. 2017

Central European Forestry Journal

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“…But overall, the content of P is higher compared with forest stands. That can be attributed to ameliorative efforts in the past (falkengren-Grerup et al 2006;Kacálek et al 2011). The same applies to the content of available K and Mg; in case of these nutrients, the differences were not statistically significant.…”

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The condition of forest stands on afforested agricultural land in the Orlické hory Mts

Cukor¹,

Baláš²,

Kupka³

et al. 2017

J. For. Sci.

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Abstractcukor J., Baláš M., Kupka i., tužinský M. (2017): The condition of forest stands on afforested agricultural land in the orlické hory Mts. J. for. sci., 63: 1-8. the paper presents an evaluation of the growth of newly established forest stands on former agricultural land and furthermore describes the state of the upper part of the soils in these stands in comparison with neighbouring grassland in the orlické hory Mountains. the new norway spruce stands show an extremely high growth potential, usually significantly higher in comparison with areas forested for more generations/rotations. the formation of the surface humus layer also showed fast progress, the amount of dry mass of soil organic matter reaching values almost typical of permanently forested sites. the soils of newly afforested lands tend to resemble the status of forest soil -there was observed a process of acidification and nutrient depletion, probably connected with accumulation of the tree biomass.

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“…Our framework is but one example of how several lines of evidence can be used to discriminate alternative explanations for the correlation between contemporary ecological conditions and historical land use, and to partition ecological variability among different historical land use periods. 2002, De Gryze et al 2004, Latty et al 2004, Falkengren-Grerup et al 2006, Flinn and Marks 2007, Kopecký and Vojta 2009, Clark and Johnson 2011, Kacalek et al 2011, Poeplau et al 2011, Raiesi 2012; full citations in main article). These studies vary in their details; some evaluate ''recovery rates'' while others document state changes caused by past agriculture, some are reviews or data compilations while others are place-based original studies, and they differ in the soil properties and mechanisms through with agrarian legacies are expressed.…”

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Legacies of agriculture and urbanization in labile and stable organic carbon and nitrogen in Sonoran Desert soils

2014

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Abstract. Soils regulate air and water quality by storing large pools of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N).Land management decisions have an enduring influence on the integrity and size of these pools, particularly in the upper soil layers. An important challenge, therefore, is to identify how soil C and N bear the marks of both past and present land use. Several studies have documented that effects of agriculture on soil properties can persist long after agricultural abandonment, but these studies typically examine sites returning to forest or grassland. Fewer have investigated legacies of agricultural land use when formerly agrarian land becomes urban. Urban soil management may be intensive, characterized by modifications in microtopography, vegetation, and nutrient and water inputs. We thus hypothesized that urban residential land use would negate any agrarian signatures in the pool sizes of labile (readily mineralized) soil organic C and N, but that agrarian legacies would persist in pools of stable (not readily mineralized) C and N. We tested this hypothesis in arid central Arizona (USA), where residential development in the Phoenix metropolis occurred on both agrarian and uncultivated desert lands throughout the 20th Century. We used a year-long incubation to quantify labile and stable organic C and N in soils (to 15.2 cm depth) from desert land, contemporary agrarian land, residential yards that were converted from desert, and yards converted from agrarian land use. Labile N in residential soils may have been independent of historical provenance, consistent with the hypothesis that readily-mineralized pools converge on a single signature of current (residential) land use. Labile C, stable C, and stable N showed the influence of agrarian history decades after conversion to urban residential use. These agrarian legacies in currently residential soil result from the persistence of past agrarian amendments to soil, and are not artifacts of the preferential cultivation of inherently fertile land. Current residential soil management is further amending soil C and N pools on top of the legacy pools left behind by agriculture. We calculate that the persisting influence of agrarian history on soils is similar in magnitude to contemporary urban residential effects.

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Former agriculture impacts on properties of Norway spruce forest

Cited by 14 publications

References 36 publications

Carbon sequestration in soil following afforestation of former agricultural land in the Czech Republic

Carbon sequestration in soil following afforestation of former agricultural land in the Czech Republic

The condition of forest stands on afforested agricultural land in the Orlické hory Mts

Legacies of agriculture and urbanization in labile and stable organic carbon and nitrogen in Sonoran Desert soils

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