Journal
CATENA
Volume 144, Issue -, Pages 102-108Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2016.05.014
Keywords
Soil organic carbon; Ecosystem services; Spatial scale; Carbon stock; Wetland; China
Funding
- Beijing Natural Science Foundation Grant [8151002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41571022, 91325302, 91425303, 41503077]
- National Science and Technology Major Project [2015ZX07203-005]
- 1st Youth Excellent Talents Program of the Organization Department of the Central Committee [TD-JC-2013-2]
- Beijing Higher Education Young Elite Teacher Project [2014000020124G073]
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Regional-scale soil organic carbon (SOC) field investigations would significantly improve our understanding of national and global SOC sequestration and carbon (C) cycles. The Zoige wetland is the world's largest high-altitude wetland. It is located in northeastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Although considered sensitive to global climate change, little is known of its wetland SOC stocks and spatial distribution patterns. Accordingly, we investigated SOC stocks and spatial distribution patterns in the uppermost 1 m soil layer in Ruoergai and Hongyuan counties in the Zoige wetland. We found that SOC decreased with increasing soil depth, which was highest in the topmost 0.3 m soil layer. Total nitrogen and water content were positively correlated to SOC content while bulk density was negatively correlated to SOC content in both wetland and grassland areas. Wetlands had a higher SOC density than grassland. In the uppermost 1 m of wetland soil, average SOC density, was 69.5 kg C m(-3), greater by a factor of three compared to mean wetland SOC density in China and greater by a factor of six compared to the national average. SOC stock in the uppermost 1 m of wetland, soils totaled 514 Tg C, of which 50% was stored in the topmost 03 m. This indicated that the two counties in the Zoige wetland stores from 8.3 to 102% of the total SOC in China in the topmost 1 m of wetland soils. This vast SOC pool and high SOC density requires sound land use practices to sustain and protect Zoige wetland ecosystem services and C stocks. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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