20141215

Author: T.N. Maraseni, S.S. Pandey
Year : 2012
Title: Can vegetation types work as an indicator of soil organic carbon? An insight from native vegetations in Nepal
Journal : Ecological Indicators
Comment : A statistical analysis indicates significant differences in SOC amounts across the five vegetation types.On average, in each vegetation type, dense canopy forest (≥70% canopy cover) has higher amounts of SOC than that of open canopy forest (<70% canopy cover) and high altitude dense canopy Rhododendron-Quercus forest has the highest amount of SOC, followed by low altitude dense canopy mixed broadleaf forest. Soils under the mixed species (i.e., mixed broadleaf, Shcima-Castanopsis, Rhododendron-Quercus) forests have higher amount of SOC than that of single species dominated (i.e., pine and S. robusta) forests, indicating that a mixed species forest could be an indicator of higher SOC.

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20131218

Author  : Edmondson, J. L. Davies, Z. G. McHugh, N. Gaston, K. J. Leake, J. R. Year  : 2012 Title  : Organic carbon hidden in urban ecosystems Journal  : Scientific Reports Comment   : To date, the total quantity of OC stored in urban soils (under both impervious surfaces and greenspaces), together with that in above-ground vegetation, has never been systematically measured.  They report the first city-wide organic carbon (OC) budget for vegetation and soils, including under impervious surfaces. The majority of OC (82%) was held in soils, with 13% found under impervious surfaces, and 18% stored in vegetation.
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Author  : Chen, Y. J. Day, S. D. Shrestha, R. K. Strahm, B. D. Wiseman, P. E. Year  : 2014 Title  : Influence of urban land development and soil rehabilitation on soil-atmosphere greenhouse gas fluxes Journal  : Geoderma Comment   : Typical land development practices did not increase global warming potential (GWP) when compared to undeveloped land. Post-development soil rehabilitation, however, resulted in greater GWP than both undisturbed soils and those subjected to typical development practices driven primarily by increased CO2 efflux.
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Kelly S. Ramirez1 , Jonathan W. Leff4,5, Albert Barbera´n5 , Scott Thomas Bates6 , Jason Betley7 , Thomas W. Crowther8 , Eugene F. Kelly2 , Emily E. Oldfield8 , E. Ashley Shaw3 , Christopher Steenbock4 , Mark A. Bradford8 , Diana H. Wall1,3 and Noah Fierer4,5 Soil biota play key roles in the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, however, compared to our knowledge of above-ground plant and animal diversity, the biodiversity found in soils remains largely uncharacterized. Here, they present an assessment of soil biodiversity and biogeographic patterns across Central Park in New York City that spanned all three domains of life, demonstrating that even an urban, managed system harbours large amounts of undescribed soil biodiversity. Despite high variability across the Park, below-ground diversity patterns were predictable based on soil characteristics, with prokaryotic and eukaryotic communities exhibiting overlapping biogeographic patterns. Further, Central Park soils harboured nearly ...
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