Vegetation Effects on Soil Organic Matter Chemistry of Aggregate Fractions in a Hawaiian Forest

• Published in: Ecosystems (New York) Vol. 14; no. 3; pp. 382 - 397
• Main Authors: Stewart, Catherine E, Neff, Jason C, Amatangelo, Kathryn L, Vitousek, Peter M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer-Verlag 01.04.2011; Springer Science+Business Media; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Acid soils; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; Biomarkers; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Carbon content; Cheirodendron; Cheirodendron trigynum; Chemical properties; Chemistry; chromatography; cutin; Decomposition; derivatization; Dicranopteris; Dicranopteris linearis; Ecology; Environmental Management; Forest soils; Forestry; forests; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gas chromatography; General aspects; General forest ecology; Generalities. Production, biomass. Quality of wood and forest products. General forest ecology; Geochemistry; Geoecology/Natural Processes; Hydrology/Water Resources; inheritance (genetics); Leaves; Life Sciences; Lignin; Lipids; Litter; Mass spectrometry; Microorganisms; Organic matter; Organic soils; physicochemical properties; plant biochemistry; plant litter; Plant Sciences; Plant tissues; Plants; Polysaccharides; Pyrolysis; rooting; Saccharides; Soil aggregates; Soil biochemistry; Soil chemistry; Soil organic matter; Soil structure; Soils; suberin; Synecology; Vegetation; Vegetation effects; Zoology; Hawaii; Polynesia; Oceania; soil organic chemistry; fern; Hawaii; soil organic carbon; decomposition; pyrolysis-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry; soil organic matter; Soil chemistry; Organic carbon; Pyrolysis; Forests; Organic matter; Decomposition; Vegetation effect; Pteridophyta; Organic chemistry; Gas chromatography; Soils; Ecosystem; Aggregate; Mass spectrometry

We examined chemical changes from leaf tissue to soil organic matter (SOM) to determine the persistence of plant chemistry into soil aggregate fractions. We characterized a slow (Dicranopteris linearis) and fast-decomposing species (Cheirodendron trigynum) and surface (O), and subsurface (A-horizon)...