Impact of Altitudes on Soil Characteristics in Dry Deciduous Forest Ecosystem, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu

Soil Organic Carbon Stocks under Different Forest Types of Himalayan Moist Temperate Forests in Shimla District, Himachal Pradesh, India

“…Leaf litter and root litter input play a major role in forest soil. The upper layer remains in dynamic equilibrium with biological and anthropological activities and is generally richer in C than the lower layers (Kanagaraj et al, 2017). Similar results were also reported earlier by Shrestha et al (2004) in mountain watershed of Nepal.…”

“…These results are in accordance with the findings of Banerjee and Badola (1980). Increase in the SOC can be due to the change in the climatic condition at higher elevation as well the decrease in OM accumulation along the elevation gradients (Kanagaraj et al, 2017). A perusal of the data presented in the Table 4 reveals that soil carbon density (t/ ha) is significantly influenced by the average effects of altitudinal ranges and soil depth.…”

Plant Diversity and Regeneration Potentials in Protected Area Forests of Sierra Leone

“…The low physicochemical property of soil in the study sites is believed to have affected species composition and richness as well [71,78,82,85,87]. In agreement with Gol, et al [80] we predict that the physical and chemical properties of soil may have affected regeneration, density, and diversity of plants in the forest PAs of Sierra Leone.…”

“…The vegetative community and soil chemical and physical factors have been proven to have a reciprocal relationship [80,81]. In recent years, researchers have proven that the floral composition of plants, spatial and temporal distribution, and community structure were significantly controlled by the type of soil and land creation [71,82].…”

Relationship of selected properties of Cambisols to altitude and forest ecosystems of four vegetation grades

“…Badia et al [ 43 ], who investigated the forest soil catena in the Moncayo massif (Iberian Range, SW Europe), found that with increasing altitude, the pH value, the degree of base saturation, and the content of exchangeable potassium and fine dust particles decrease significantly, while the content of organic matter, the ratio C/N, stability of soil aggregates, water repellence of soil, and the content of coarse sand particles increase significantly. On the other hand, in the dry deciduous forest of the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu, Kanagaraj et al [ 44 ] found that organic carbon, water-soluble carbon, and even soil pH were positively correlated with an altitude, with a rate of correlation coefficient of 0.92, 0.87, and 0.75, respectively. Zhang et al [ 45 ], who studied the spatial distribution of SOC and N stocks in soils of nine vegetation types along an altitude gradient (600–4500 m) in southwestern China, report that total organic carbon and nitrogen also increased with elevation and were positively correlated with mean annual temperature and precipitation.…”