Effects of artificial grassland establishment on soil nutrients and carbon properties in a black-soil-type degraded grassland

Wu, Gao‐Lin; Zhen-heng, Liu; Zhang, Lei; Hu, Tianming; Ji-min, Chen

doi:10.1007/s11104-010-0363-9

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“…2). The higher SOC stocks in the 0-20 cm soil layer can be related to plant and soil characteristics at the local scale as both factors affect the balance of C input from plant growth and output from plant decomposition (Wu et al 2010;Willaarts et al 2016).…”

Section: Results and Discussion Soc Variation With Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The dynamic equilibrium of gains and losses of soil organic carbon (SOC) is sensitive to climate change and human disturbance (Knorr Wu et al 2010;Wang et al 2015a). The feedback of these dynamics, such as carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) concentrations in the atmosphere, greatly affects the rate of climate change (Trumbore et al 1996;Muñoz-Rojas et al 2013).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Estimation of soil organic carbon under different vegetation types on a hillslope of China’s northern Loess Plateau using state-space approach

Zhang¹,

Yao

Jia

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Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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Section: Results and Discussion Soc Variation With Land Usementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Estimation of soil organic carbon under different vegetation types on a hillslope of China’s northern Loess Plateau using state-space approach

Zhang¹,

Yao

Jia

et al. 2017

Can. J. Soil. Sci.

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“…Ussiri et al (2006) found that tree plantation establishment had great potential for SOC sequestration in reclaimed mine soil. Artificial grassland establishment also significantly improved SOC in the topsoil (Wu et al, 2010). So reclamation of drastically disturbed mine soil and subsequent planting trees or grass could rapidly build-up carbon in the soil (Nyamadzawo et al, 2008;Lv and Liang, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Several studies about the impacts of reclamation and artificial grassland on evolution of soil properties over time had been reported (Nyamadzawo et al, 2008;Keskin and Makineci, 2009;Juwarkar et al, 2010;Wu et al, 2010). Nyamadzawo et al (2008) studied reclaimed minesoils characterized by distinct reclamation age chronosequences and found some relationships emerged between amount of time since reclamation and soil carbon stocks.…”

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Revegetation of artificial grassland improve soil organic and inorganic carbon and water of abandoned mine

Yang

Huang

Wang

et al. 2015

J. Soil Sci. Plant Nutr.

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Mining and related activities caused plant productivity and soil carbon content reduced in arid and semi-arid ecosystems. Soil carbon plays an essential role in ecosystem stability. Soil carbon and associated changes in soil property were important drivers and indicators of ecosystem recovery at post-mining areas. We selected 5, 10 and 20 years of restoration lands to examine the effect of artificial grassland on vegetation community and soil property. Results showed that artificial grassland markedly increased the biomass, canopy coverage and soil carbon content, but decreased soil bulk density and soil water content. After 10-year of restoration, both the biomass and soil organic carbon (SOC) content reached the peak, however, soil bulk density and soil water content arrived the lowest at depth of 0-20 cm and got the highest at depth of 20-30 cm. At 20-year of restoration land, the biomass (above-and belowground) and SOC content (0-30 cm) significantly decreased by 46.2 % and 67.0 % with compared to 10-year of restoration land, while soil bulk density of 0-10 cm and 10-20 cm depths increased by 7.8 % and 21.4 %, respectively, soil water content (0-30 cm) increased by 11.6 % . It was evident that artificial grassland as an effective ecological restoration approach could improve soil physicchemical property, while properly anthropogenic perturbations were also needed to stimulate plant growth.

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“…In a multi-site field experiment conducted over three years (five sites spanning a climatic gradient from Atlantic to continental, and from temperate to arctic), Suter et al (2013) found that the STN of grass-legume mixtures was on average greater than that of monocultures, and the effect was most pronounced when the proportion of legumes in the mixtures was approximately 60%, and 30% of the STN originated from symbiotic N 2 fixation [28]. Cultivated grassland establishment also resulted in significantly improved STN and phosphorus, especially in the 20-30 cm soil layer in a black-soil-type degraded grassland on the Tibetan Plateau [29].…”

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A Two-Step Strategy for Developing Cultivated Pastures in China that Offer the Advantages of Ecosystem Services

Chen

Tang

et al. 2016

Sustainability

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Based on a site experiment on a typical steppe of Inner Mongolia, the short term effects on aboveground biomass, soil water content, soil organic carbon, and soil total nitrogen of four cultivated pastures (CPs) with different compositions of herbaceous species were examined and compared to those of adjacent, natural grassland (NG) enclosed simultaneously. All CPs produced significantly higher aboveground biomass than did the NG after two years of establishment, and the mixed culture of Agropyron cristatum (A. cristatum) and Medicago sativa (M. sativa) produced the highest (312.39% higher than the NG). Without irrigation, soil water content in the 10-20 cm soil layer was also found to be significantly higher in the CPs than in the NG, especially for the mixed cultures of A. cristatum and M. sativa, A. cristatum, M. sativa and Lolium perenne (L. perenne), by 184.25% and 125.97%, respectively. The improvements in soil organic carbon and soil total nitrogen in CPs were less obvious and mixed, with different species compositions showing significant increases at different depths. The experimental results suggested that, with carefully selected species compositions and proper farming measures, CPs could have a positive effect on some of the pathways that generate ecosystem services, at least in the short term. We also analyzed the underlying institutional and socioeconomic causes of China's underdevelopment of CPs, and proposed a two-step development strategy. The first is to promote rain-fed CPs on small-hold farms, which require relatively low inputs in fertilizers and labor. The second is to promote large-scale operations, which will require significantly more inputs in land, irrigation, fertilizers, and machinery.

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Effects of artificial grassland establishment on soil nutrients and carbon properties in a black-soil-type degraded grassland

Cited by 107 publications

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Estimation of soil organic carbon under different vegetation types on a hillslope of China’s northern Loess Plateau using state-space approach

Estimation of soil organic carbon under different vegetation types on a hillslope of China’s northern Loess Plateau using state-space approach

Revegetation of artificial grassland improve soil organic and inorganic carbon and water of abandoned mine

A Two-Step Strategy for Developing Cultivated Pastures in China that Offer the Advantages of Ecosystem Services

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