Despite decades of recovery, soil carbon in heavily burned areas has failed to reach pre-fire levels. It is unclear whether stand management practices can promote soil organic carbon accumulation at such sites. This study evaluated the changes in soil labile organic carbon (LOC) fractions (including dissolved organic carbon (DOC), microbial biomass carbon (MBC), and easily oxidizable organic carbon (EOC)) and the carbon pool management index (CPMI) after the thinning of a heavily burned area in the Daxing'an Mountains and selected sample plots.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Plant species composition in forest ecosystems can alter soil greenhouse gas (GHG) budgets by affecting soil properties and microbial communities. However, little attention has been paid to the forest types characterized by understory vegetation, especially in boreal forests where understory species contribute significantly to carbon and nitrogen cycling.
Method: In the present study, soil GHG fluxes, soil properties and bacterial community, and soil environmental conditions were investigated among three types of larch forest [- forest (RL), - forest (LL), and -- forest (SLL)] in the typical boreal region of northeast China to explore whether the forest types characterized by different understory species can affect soil GHG fluxes.
Forest succession is an important process regulating the carbon and nitrogen budgets in forest ecosystems. However, little is known about how and extent by which vegetation succession predictably affects soil CO, CH, and NO fluxes, especially in boreal forest. Here, a field study was conducted along a secondary forest succession trajectory from Betula platyphylla forest (early stage), then Betula platyphylla-Larix gmelinii forest (intermediate stage), to Larix gmelinii forest (late stage) to explore the effects of forest succession on soil greenhouse gas fluxes and related soil environmental factors in Northeast China.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLittle is known about the relationship between soil microbial communities and soil properties in southern boreal forests. To further our knowledge about that relationship, we compared the soil samples in southern boreal forests of the Greater Khingan Mountains-the southernmost boreal forest biome in the world. The forests can be divided into boardleaf forests dominated by birch (Betula platyphylla) or aspen (Populus davidiana) and coniferous forests dominated by larch (Larix gmelinii) or pine (Pinus sylvestris var.
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November 2015
Based on a natural Larix gmelinii forest from Mohe Ecological Station, located in north of Great Xing' an Mountains, time lag effects of throughfall inside the Larix gmelinii forest were analyzed by measuring rainfall, throughfall and stemflow with the method of location observation. The result showed that forest throughfall, stemflow and canopy interception accounted for 76.5%, 2.
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January 2008
The study on the distribution, accumulation, and seasonal dynamics of Cu and Zn in shrub-marsh plants Salix rosmarinifolia, Salix pentandra, Carex caespitosa and Carex schmidtii in mountainous areas of Northeast China showed that the Cu concentration in test plants varied from 6 to 12 mg x kg(-1), and its distribution was in the sequence of root > stem > leaf in S. rosmarinifolia and S. pentandra, and of stem > leaf > root in C.
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June 2006
With the upper reaches of Gongbiela River in the northeast part of Xiaoxing' an Mountains as test area, this paper studied the hydrochemical characteristics of the streams in forest and swamp during the period of June - September 2004. The results indicated that the hydrochemistry of forest and swamp streams belonged to calcium-bicarbonate type I (C1(Ca)). The pH value, mineralization rate, total hardness, and HCO3(-), SO4(2-), Ca(2+), Mg(2+) and Fe concentrations of forest streams were lower than those of swamp streams, while the concentrations of total N, total P, Cl-, K+, and Na+ were in adverse.
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July 2005
The study on the hydrochemical characteristics of three representative kinds of wetland in Gongbiela Basin showed that in the water of test wetlands, HCO3 - was the dominant anion, accounting for 81.91% - 85.46% of total anions, and Ca2+ was the dominant cation, accounting for 56.
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