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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 2013, Vol. 49 ›› Issue (7): 26-33.doi: 10.11707/j.1001-7488.20130704

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Seasonal Dynamics of Soil Microbial Biomass Carbon in Alnus formosana Forest-Grass Compound Models

He Yun, Zhou Yigui, Li Xianwei, Miao Yu, Fan Chuan, Chen Yuelin   

  1. Forestry College, Sichuan Agricultural University Ya'an 625014
  • Received:2013-04-02 Revised:2013-06-02 Online:2013-07-25 Published:2013-07-23

Abstract:

Soil microbes drive carbon and nutrient cycling in forest ecosystem. Soil microbial biomass is commonly limited by environmental factors and soil carbon availability. We employed two forest-grass systems of alder (Alnus formosana) + regrass (Lolium multiflorum) (AL) and alder (Alnus formosana) + limpograss (Hemarthria compress) (AH), as well as alder + natural weed (AN) that served as control, in a returning farmland to forest land in Danling, Sichuan Province, to investigate dynamics of soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil microbial biomass carbon (SMBC) content. The results showed that soil organic carbon and soil microbial biomass carbon content in the two forest-grass compound models and the control (AN) all decreased with depth of the soil layers (0-10, 10-20, 20-30, 30-40 cm), and the decrease speed was fastest in AN, followed by AL and then AH model. The dynamic of SOC content of the three models over the all soil layers exhibited a "down-up-down" trend from spring to winter, except 0-10,10-20 cm in AH model. The SOC content was highest in summer, and lowest in autumn. However, SMBC content exhibited the opposite trend, highest in autumn and lowest in summer. There was significant difference in soil organic carbon and soil microbial biomass carbon between the two forest-grass compound models and AN (P <0.01), and the rank was in an order of AH model>AL model>AN model. The content of soil organic carbon in AH, and AL was 1.24-1.55, and 1.16-1.30 times of that in AN; and the content of soil microbial biomass carbon in AH, and AL was 1.50-2.95, and 1.23-1.80 times of that in AN.

Key words: Alnus formosana, forest and grass composite model, soil organic carbon, soil microbial biomass carbon, seasonal dynamic

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