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Soil organic carbon pools and carbon management index under different land use systems in North western Himalayas
Ist Teil von
PeerJ (San Francisco, CA), 2023-06, Vol.11, p.e15266-e15266, Article e15266
Ort / Verlag
United States: PeerJ. Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr
2023
Quelle
MEDLINE
Beschreibungen/Notizen
Current study was conducted to evaluate the effect of important land uses and soil depth on soil organic carbon pools viz. total organic carbon, Walkley and black carbon, labile organic carbon, particulate organic carbon, microbial biomass carbon and carbon management index (CMI) in the north Western Himalayas, India. Soil samples from five different land uses viz. forest, pasture, apple, saffron and paddy-oilseed were collected up to a depth of 1 m (0-30, 30-60, 60-90 cm). The results revealed that regardless of soil depth, all the carbon pools differed significantly (
< 0.05) among studied land use systems with maximum values observed under forest soils and lowest under paddy-oilseed soils. Further, upon evaluating the impact of soil depth, a significant (
< 0.05) decline and variation in all the carbon pools was observed with maximum values recorded in surface (0-30 cm) soils and least in sub-surface (60-90 cm) layers. CMI was higher in forest soils and lowest in paddy-oilseed. From regression analysis, a positive significant association (high R-squared values) between CMI and soil organic carbon pools was also observed at all three depths. Therefore, land use changes and soil depth had a significant impact on soil organic carbon pools and eventually on CMI, which is used as deterioration indicator or soil carbon rehabilitation that influences the universal goal of sustainability in the long run.