Grazing can cause changes in soil carbon (C) level. This study aimed to elucidate the response of soil labile organic carbon (SLOC) under four different grazing intensities: non grazing (NG), 0 sheep·ha(-1); light grazing (LG), 0.91 sheep·ha(-1); moderate grazing (MG), 1.82 sheep·ha(-1), and heavy grazing (HG), 2.73 sheep·ha(-1). Results showed that there was no significant difference in total ...

Playa wetlands are important areas of soil organic carbon and nutrient storage in drylands. We conducted this study to assess how catchment biophysical variables control soil organic carbon and nitrogen in playas and how playas function differently than upland ecosystems. We found that playa organic carbon and nitrogen corresponded primarily with catchment vegetation cover and secondarily with ...

An important component in calculating budgets of terrestrial soil carbon is an estimate of total soil organic carbon. The CENTURY model simulates organic C in the top 20 cm of soil only, so a method for projecting the depth distribution of organic C is necessary for estimates of the profile total. This document describes the implementation of the exponential depth distribution of organic C in C...

The rehabilitation of sandy desertified land in various dryland ecosystems by different management practices has a great potential to increase aggregate stability and improve soil quality. However, plants in general may have a different ability to sustain soil. The objective was to determine the effects of reclamation practices including Haloxylon ammodendron and Atriplex canescens plantation o...

On a sequence of soils developed under similar vegetation, temperature and precipitation conditions, but with variations in mineralogical properties, we use organic carbon and C inventories to examine mineral protection of soil organic carbon. In these soils, C data indicates that the creation of slow-cycling carbon can be modeled as occurring through reaction of organic ligands with Al and Fe ...

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