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Greater soil carbon losses from secondary than old-growth tropical forests

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Greater soil carbon losses from secondary than old-growth tropical forests
المؤلفون: Nanette C. Raczka, Qian Yi Ho, Vupasana Srinivasan, Ming Yang Lee, Chung-Wing Ko, Madeleine Königer, Terence Chua, Delia Binny, Kang Min Ngo, Kelly M. Andersen
المصدر: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Vol 6 (2023)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2023.
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: LCC:Forestry
LCC:Environmental sciences
مصطلحات موضوعية: belowground carbon dynamics, fine root biomass, soil moisture, soil C efflux, Southeast Asia, Forestry, SD1-669.5, Environmental sciences, GE1-350
الوصف: Tropical forests play a crucial role in mediating the global carbon cycle and climate. Southeast Asian tropical forests are experiencing ongoing threats of deforestation and degradation. There is an urgent need to determine how the conversion from primary forest to secondary forest coverage may impact C stocks and cycling. While old-growth forests typically contain larger stores of C aboveground than secondary forests, past research has found varied results for belowground soil C storage and fluxes between tropical forest types. We examined differences in annual soil C efflux in a 2-ha old-growth and an adjacent 2-ha 70-year-old secondary ForestGEO plots in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve in Singapore. We hypothesized that the secondary forest would have greater soil C efflux rates than the old-growth forest and explored several potential drivers of soil C efflux including abiotic and biotic factors such as soil moisture, fine root biomass, and ectomycorrhizal association. We found that the hypothesis was supported, suggesting that belowground carbon dynamics fundamentally differ with forest age. Additionally, we found that fine root biomass was the best predictor of soil C efflux in the secondary forest and soil moisture in the old-growth forest. The difference in soil C efflux between forest types indicates that with continued degradation of old-growth forests in Southeast Asia, conversion of old-growth forests into secondary forests may drive greater C loss from soils even after 70 years of regrowth.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 2624-893X
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/ffgc.2023.1135270/full; https://doaj.org/toc/2624-893X
DOI: 10.3389/ffgc.2023.1135270
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/be8d217eb21a48c9a10542bc390a9daa
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.be8d217eb21a48c9a10542bc390a9daa
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:2624893X
DOI:10.3389/ffgc.2023.1135270