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Global patterns of the effects of land-use changes on soil carbon stocks
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Despite hundreds of field studies and at least a dozen literature reviews, there is still considerable disagreement about the direction and magnitude of changes in soil C stocks with land use change. This paper reviews the literature on the effects of land use conversions on soil C stocks, based on a synthesis of 103 recent publications, including 160 sites in 29 countries, with the aims of determining the factors responsible for soil C sequestration and quantifying changes in soil C stocks from seven land use conversions. The results show that as an overall average across all land use change examined, land use conversions have significantly reduced soil C stocks (0.39 Mg ha−1 yr−1). Soil C stocks significantly increased after conversions from farmland to grassland (0.30 Mg ha−1 yr−1) and forest to grassland (0.68 Mg ha−1 yr−1), but significantly declined after conversion from grassland to farmland (0.89 Mg ha−1 yr−1), forest to farmland (1.74 Mg ha−1 yr−1), and forest to forest (0.63 Mg ha−1 yr−1). And after conversion from farmland to forest and grassland to forest, soil C stocks did not change significantly. Globally, soil C sequestration showed a significant negative correlation with initial soil C stocks (P<0.05), and the effects of climatic factors (mean annual temperature and mean annual precipitation) on soil C sequestration varied between the land use conversion types. Also, the relationships between soil C sequestration and age since land use conversion varied in different land use change types. Generally, where the land use changes decreased soil C, the reverse process usually increased soil C stocks and vice versa. Soil C sequestration dynamics were not determined by age since land use conversion at the global level when all land use change types were combined.
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- Authors
- Deng, L., Zhu, G.-Y., Tang, Z.-S., & Shangguan, Z.-P.
- Venue
- Global Ecology and Conservation
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-01
- Volume
- 5
- Pages
- 127-138
- ISSN
- 2351-9894 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2239420939
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 36
- FWCI
- 25.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- Licence
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor)
- Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (41501094, 41390463)
- National Key Technology R&D Program (2015BAC01B03)
- Light of West China (XAB2015B03)
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