Journal
FORESTS
Volume 11, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/f11050532
Keywords
soil organic carbon; soil organic nitrogen; soil pH; soil texture; Lancangjiang River Basin; Southwest China
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41661144029, 41325010]
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The profile distributions of soil organic carbon (SOC), soil organic nitrogen (SON), soil pH and soil texture were rarely investigated in the Lancangjiang River Basin. This study aims to present the vertical distributions of these soil properties and provide some insights about how they interact with each other in the two typical soil profiles. A total of 56 soil samples were collected from two soil profiles (LCJ S-1, LCJ S-2) in the Lancangjiang River Basin to analyze the profile distributions of SOC and SON and to determine the effects of soil pH and soil texture. Generally, the contents of SOC and SON decreased with increasing soil depth and SOC contents were higher than SON contents (average SOC vs. SON content: 3.87 g kg(-1)vs. 1.92 g kg(-1)in LCJ S-1 and 5.19 g kg(-1)vs. 0.96 g kg(-1)in LCJ S-2). Soil pH ranged from 4.50 to 5.74 in the two soil profiles and generally increased with increasing soil depth. According to the percentages of clay, silt, and sand, most soil samples can be categorized as silty loam. Soil pH values were negatively correlated with C/N ratios (r = -0.66,p< 0.01) and SOC contents (r = -0.52,p< 0.01). Clay contents were positively correlated with C/N ratios (r = 0.43,p< 0.05) and SOC contents (r = 0.42,p< 0.01). The results indicate that soil pH and clay are essential factors influencing the SOC spatial distributions in the two soil profiles.
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