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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Different Human Disturbance Intensities
on Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation
in Karst Forest Land in Northwest China
1
Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Remediation in Ecologically Fragile Regions. Key
Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University),
Ministry of Education, Guilin 541004, China
2
Agricultural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangxi Key
Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Nanning 530007, Guangxi, China
Submission date: 2024-09-26
Final revision date: 2024-10-22
Acceptance date: 2025-01-07
Online publication date: 2025-03-25
Corresponding author
Tieguang He
Agricultural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangxi Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Nanning 530007, Guangxi, China
Agricultural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangxi Key Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Nanning 530007, Guangxi, China
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ABSTRACT
To explore the changes in soil organic carbon under different intensities of human disturbance
in the karst forestland of Guibei West and to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of human
activities on the carbon sequestration capacity of karst forestland soil. This study selects three
types of forestland soils from virgin, secondary, and planted forests under two typical soil-forming
matrices, dolomite and limestone, in the karst region of Northwest Gui for 60 days of indoor incubation
experiments. The results showed that compared with the organic carbon content of the soil of the virgin
forest stands at the end of the incubation, the organic carbon content of the soil of the dolomite-forming
matrices planted and the soil of the secondary forest stand increased by 32.0% and 48.2%, respectively.
The organic carbon content in the forest soils of planted forests and secondary forests derived from
limestone parent material decreased by 71.1% and 63.5%, respectively. All anthropogenic disturbances
decreased the amount of organic carbon mineralized in karst forestland soils. In conclusion, under
different intensities of anthropogenic interference, dolomitic matrix forest land has a stronger ability
to resist anthropogenic interference, and it can be used to moderately develop the forest economy;
limestone matrix virgin forest land is more conducive to the fixation of organic carbon in the soil,
and it can increase the organic carbon content of the soil by reducing the interference of anthropogenic
activities on the limestone matrix forest land.
CONFLICT OF INTEREST
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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