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Linking Soil Organic Carbon Stocks to Land-use Types in a Mediterranean Agroforestry Landscape
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zuazo, Víctor Hugo Durán Pleguezuelo, Carmen Rocío Rodríguez Tavira, Simón Cuadros Martínez, José Ramón Francia |
| Copyright Year | 2014 |
| Abstract | In agroforestry landscapes, land use, and the associated management practices exert strong impacts upon soil organic carbon stocks. Data on the soil organic carbon were collected for different land-use types within a small watershed, El Salado, located in Lanjaron (SE Spain). Eight land-use types namely: farmland planted in olive, almond, and cereals; forest with Pinus halepensis Mill. and Pinus sylvestris L. stands; shrubland; grassland; as well as abandoned farmland were taken into consideration. Of the land-use types investigated, forest, shrubland, as well as grassland exhibited the highest average soil organic C stocks (100-63 Mg ha -1 ) in contrast with the abandoned farmland (28 Mg ha -1 ), with farmland representing a go-between situation (51-49 Mg ha -1 ). The environmental factors precipitation, temperature, and elevation significantly influenced (P< 0.01) the soil organic C stock, with the contents tending to be higher in mountain soils with respective intermediate values of 600-800 mm, 10-15oC, and 1,000-1,500 m asl. Thus, the present approach offers a comparison of C-sequestration patterns as related to the land-use types in a Mediterranean agroforestry landscape, where the main challenge is to integrate the forest trees and the crops within their harmonious interacting combinations. |
| Starting Page | 667 |
| Ending Page | 679 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Volume Number | 16 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jast.modares.ac.ir/article-23-9969-en.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://jast-old.modares.ac.ir/article_10737_b98032d5015f532e69331b11778c808a.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
