A New Approach Using Modeling to Interpret Measured Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Forests; The Case of a 200 Year Pine Chronosequence on a Podzolic Soil in Scotland

• Published in: Frontiers in environmental science Vol. 8
• Main Authors: Ražauskaitė, Rita, Vanguelova, Elena, Cornulier, Thomas, Smith, Pete, Randle, Tim, Smith, Jo U.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lausanne Frontiers Research Foundation 16.11.2020; Frontiers Media S.A
• Subjects: 18th century; Accumulation; Afforestation; Age; Carbon; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Coniferous forests; Depletion; Emissions; Environmental science; Exploitation; forest; Forest soils; Forestry; Forests; Grasslands; Land use; Organic carbon; Organic soils; Pine; Pine trees; Plantations; Podzolic soils; Reforestation; RothC model; Scotland; Simulation; Soil horizons; soil organic carbon (SOC); Soils; Steady state; United Kingdom > UK; Scotland

Scotland is continuing to afforest land in order to combat climate change, but the long-term capacity for carbon sequestration in forest soils is still uncertain. Soil organic carbon stock changes were studied in a >120 year-old Scots pine chronosequence and adjacent grassland sites on podzolic s...