Regressive Pedogenesis Following a Century of Deforestation: Evidence for Depodzolization

Barrett, Linda R.; Schaetzl, Randall J.

doi:10.1097/00010694-199806000-00006

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“…For example, older successional stages with mixed beech, oak and birch (Betula spp.) forests have been shown to enhance podzolisation (Aaby, 1983), while traces of depodzolisation (the conversion of podzolic soils into non-podzolised soil types) occur in early successional stages (Nielsen et al, 1987a(Nielsen et al, , 1987b, or after deforestation (Barrett and Schaetzl, 1998). In other words, we propose that long-term forest management may cause a more or a less podzolised soil, depending on site factors as susceptible nutrient-poor parent materials and climatic conditions.…”

Section: Implication On Soil Genesis?mentioning

confidence: 86%

Dynamic oak-scrub to forest succession: Effects of management on understorey vegetation, humus forms and soils

Strandberg¹,

Kristiansen

Tybirk³

2005

Forest Ecology and Management

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Section: Implication On Soil Genesis?mentioning

confidence: 86%

Dynamic oak-scrub to forest succession: Effects of management on understorey vegetation, humus forms and soils

Strandberg¹,

Kristiansen

Tybirk³

2005

Forest Ecology and Management

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“…Subsurface spodic soil horizons are also likely to incorporate additional SOC in this timeframe 13,14 . These estimates also don't include vast areas thought to have mixed spruce-hardwood forest historically, which also would accumulate more SOC if spruce was fully restored.…”

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Release of Suppressed Red Spruce Using Canopy Gap Creation—Ecological Restoration in the Central Appalachians

Rentch

Ford

Schuler

et al. 2016

Natural Areas Journal

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Issue: Historic harvest of red spruce and related disturbance in the central and southern Appalachians has resulted in large losses of soil organic carbon into the atmosphere as CO 2 . Recent studies suggest that restoring red spruce with targeted forest management plans could restore significant parts of this carbon within a century while also improving regional habitat for threatened wildlife and ecosystem services like drinking water security. Red spruce and similar species promote soil carbon buildup: Many studies suggest that boreal ectomycorrhizal conifer species like red spruce promote large amounts of SOC buildup in forest floor and subsurface soil layers [1][2][3][4]

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“…On heavily-disturbed plots, the intense growth and rooting of base-cycling species such as graminoids, together with increased soil fauna activity, can intensively incorporate organic matter and released nutrients into mineral soils, and thus inhibit or even reverse eluviation in mineral horizons (see Barrett and Schaetzl 1998;Bernier and Ponge 1994). In contrast, longer absences of substantial disturbances can rather allow the expansion of species such as Vaccinium myrtillus (L.) (Bernier et al 1993;Vávrová et al 2009), a shift in soil fauna populations towards epigeic species (Bernier and Ponge 1994;Bernier et al 1993), a higher accumulation of undecomposed organic matter and a gradual eluviation of the uppermost mineral soil.…”

Section: High-severity Disturbances and Soil Evolutionmentioning

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“…The formation of soil and resulting morphology are increasingly recognized by soil scientists as a kind of Bsoil evolution^, where the current pedogenic pathway is determined by a dynamically instable balance between progressive and regressive forces of soil formation (Johnson and WatsonStegner 1987;Johnson et al 1990;Phillips 1993; Barrett and Schaetzl 1998). Although all soil forming factors operate simultaneously in a particular landscape, they may act at different spatial and temporal scales and in different ways, mutually reinforcing or inhibiting their impacts on soil processes (Jenny 1941).…”

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Effects of topography and forest stand dynamics on soil morphology in three natural Picea abies mountain forests

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Background and aims Soil evolution in mountain areas is strongly influenced by vegetation and terrain topography. In managed forests, however, relationships of the soil to the environment are modified or masked by human intervention. The objective of our study was to uncover the mutual effects of topographic and forest stand factors on the evolution and variability of soils in natural mountain spruce forests. Methods Ordination analyses were applied to extensive data on soil morphology, terrain topography and forest stand structure including its disturbance history, collected at three sites in the Carpathians with natural Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karsten] mountain forests, each with areas≥40 ha. Results Slope characteristics were the most important factors explaining the main gradients in the soil data. Soil cover and organic horizons were also highly correlated with the forest stand structure and historical disturbances. Moreover, at one site that had experienced a historical stand-replacing disturbance, the more disturbed plots showed a higher incorporation of organic matter and less pronounced eluviation in the upper mineral soil compared to less disturbed areas. Conclusions Our results suggest that the long-term shift in pedogenic conditions following a high-severity disturbance may enable the rejuvenation of podzolized soils.

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Regressive Pedogenesis Following a Century of Deforestation: Evidence for Depodzolization

Cited by 38 publications

References 68 publications

Dynamic oak-scrub to forest succession: Effects of management on understorey vegetation, humus forms and soils

Dynamic oak-scrub to forest succession: Effects of management on understorey vegetation, humus forms and soils

Release of Suppressed Red Spruce Using Canopy Gap Creation—Ecological Restoration in the Central Appalachians

Effects of topography and forest stand dynamics on soil morphology in three natural Picea abies mountain forests

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