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Título
The potential of juniperus thurifera to sequester carbon in semi-arid forest soil in Spain
Año del Documento
2017
Editorial
MDPI
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Forests,2017, vol.8, n. 9, p. 330
Zusammenfassung
The main purpose of this work is to show the influence of vegetation in the storage and stabilisation of organic carbon in semi-arid Juniperus thurifera (J. thurifera) forest soil in central Spain. The variability of the organic matter storage with factors such as sex, trunk diameter and the protection of the canopy of the tree has been analysed. The distribution of the soil organic carbon (SOC) into different fractions has also been determined, in order to estimate the stability of the organic matter. The results show that the SOC concentration has no dependence on the sex of the tree, but it increases with the diameter of the trunk and under the protection of the tree canopy. This study found that the organic matter of the J. thurifera forest soil has a high proportion of recalcitrant organic fraction, humin, which suggests that, given its organic matter stability, J. thurifera forest soils could be a real carbon sink. Consequently, the conservation of this type of old forest ecosystem is important for promoting carbon sequestration.
Materias Unesco
31 Ciencias Agrarias
Palabras Clave
Juniperus thurifera
Forest soils
Organic carbon stability
Humus fractions
Revisión por pares
SI
DOI
Patrocinador
Junta de Castilla y León (projects VA094A06 and VA014A07)
Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (MEC) (project CTM2006-02249/TECNO)
Ministerio de Educación y Formación Profesional (MEC) (project CTM2006-02249/TECNO)
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Propietario de los Derechos
© 2017 The Author(s)
Idioma
eng
Tipo de versión
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Derechos
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