Soil C and N changes with afforestation of grasslands across gradients of precipitation and plantation age

Afforestation, the conversion of unforested lands to forests, is a tool for sequestering anthropogenic carbon dioxide into plant biomass. However, in addition to altering biomass, afforestation can have substantial effects on soil organic carbon [SOC] pools, some of which have much longer turnover t...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berthrong, Sean T.
Otros Autores: Piñeiro, Gervasio, Jobbágy, Esteban Guillermo, Jackson, Robert B.
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Materias:
Acceso en línea:http://ri.agro.ar/files/intranet/articulo/2012Berthrong.pdf
LINK AL EDITOR
Aporte de:Registro referencial: Solicitar el recurso aquí
LEADER 03027cab a22003977a 4500
001 AR-BaUFA001027
003 AR-BaUFA
005 20220808123311.0
008 181208t2012 |||||o|||||00||||eng d
999 |c 47383  |d 47383 
999 |d 47383 
999 |d 47383 
999 |d 47383 
999 |d 47383 
022 |a 1051-0761 
040 |a AR-BaUFA  |c AR-BaUFA 
100 1 |a Berthrong, Sean T.  |9 69419 
245 0 0 |a Soil C and N changes with afforestation of grasslands across gradients of precipitation and plantation age 
520 |a Afforestation, the conversion of unforested lands to forests, is a tool for sequestering anthropogenic carbon dioxide into plant biomass. However, in addition to altering biomass, afforestation can have substantial effects on soil organic carbon [SOC] pools, some of which have much longer turnover times than plant biomass. An increasing body of evidence suggests that the effect of afforestation on SOC may depend on mean annual precipitation [MAP]. The goal of this study was to test how labile and bulk pools of SOC and total soil nitrogen [TN] change with afforestation across a rainfall gradient of 600-1500 mm in the Rio de la Plata grasslands of Argentina and Uruguay. The sites were all former grasslands planted with Eucalyptus spp. Overall, we found that afforestation increased [up to 1012 kg C.ha¹1yr¹] or decreased [as much as 1294 kg C.ha-¹yr-¹] SOC pools in this region and that these changes were significantly related to MAP. Drier sites gained, and wetter sites lost, SOC and TN [r2=0.59, P=0.003; and r2=0.57, P=0.004, respectively]. Labile C and Nin microbial biomass and extractable soil pools followed similar patterns to bulk SOC and TN. Interestingly, drier sites gained more SOC and TN as plantations aged, while losses reversed as plantations aged in wet sites, suggesting that plantation age in addition to precipitation is a critical driver of changes in soil organic matter with afforestation. This new evidence implies that longer intervals between harvests for plantations could improve SOC storage, ameliorating the negative trends found in humid sites. Our results suggest that the value of afforestation as a carbon sequestration tool should be considered in the context of precipitation and age of the forest stand. 
650 |2 Agrovoc  |9 26 
653 0 |a AFFORESTATION 
653 0 |a ARGENTINA 
653 0 |a EUCALYPTUS PLANTATION 
653 0 |a PRECIPITATION 
653 0 |a SOIL NITROGEN 
653 0 |a SOIL ORGANIC CARBON 
653 0 |a URUGUAY 
700 1 |9 22554  |a Piñeiro, Gervasio 
700 1 |a Jobbágy, Esteban Guillermo  |9 33927 
700 1 |9 67510  |a Jackson, Robert B. 
773 |t Ecological Applications  |g Vol.22, no.1 (2012), p.76-86, grafs., tbls., mapas 
856 |u http://ri.agro.ar/files/intranet/articulo/2012Berthrong.pdf  |q application/pdf  |f 2012Berthrong  |x MIGRADOS2018 
856 |u http://www.jstor.org/stable/i40068959  |x MIGRADOS2018 COMBINADOS  |z LINK AL EDITOR 
942 0 0 |c ARTICULO 
942 0 0 |c ENLINEA 
976 |a AAG