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Geoscience ›› 2021, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (02): 443-454.DOI: 10.19657/j.geoscience.1000-8527.2021.02.14

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Temporal and Spatial Changes of Soil Carbon Pool and Its Influencing Factors in the Sanjiang Plain

LIU Guodong1,2(), DAI Huimin1,2, YANG Ze1,2, XU Jiang1,2, ZHANG Yihe1,2, WEI Minghui1,2   

  1. 1. Shenyang Center of China Geological Survey, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China
    2. Key Laboratory for Evolution and Ecological Effect in Black Land of CGS, Shenyang, Liaoning 110034, China
  • Received:2020-03-23 Revised:2020-07-13 Online:2021-04-25 Published:2021-05-25

Abstract:

Based on the soil geochemical survey data of the Sanjiang Plain in northeast China, the surface soil organic carbon density and carbon reserves were calculated. By comparing the data of Multi-Purpose Regional Geochemical Survey with the second national soil census, this paper analyzed soil pool storage changes and main influencing factors. The results show that in the study area, the surface soil carbon is dominated by organic carbon, and there is significantly difference in the contents of organic carbon density and total carbon density in different soil types. Compared with other soil types in the area, marsh soil and peat soil have high organic carbon density, with an average content of over 8 kg/m2. The current distribution area of soil organic carbon density of >8.4 kg/m2 is significantly lower than that in 1980s.The current reserve of soil organic carbon in the surface layer (0-20 cm) of the study area is about 348 Tg, and the soil organic carbon has decreased by 293.07 Tg in 30 years, which is 45.7% lower than that in the base period. About 1.46 Tg was loss with the migration of water flow to the outside of the basin. The soil organic carbon density of cultivated land transformed from swampy wetlands was reduced by more than 2.8 kg/m2on average. The authors believe that the main reason for the decrease of soil organic carbon in the study area is the rapid change of land use. The land use changes from wetland to dry farmland led to the largest loss of organic carbon, with a loss of 63.47%.Other types of land use changes resulted in soil organic carbon loss between 40% and 50%.The decrease of soil organic carbon pool caused by temperature rise in the study area over the past 30 years was about 7.4 Tg, accounting for 2.52% of the total loss.

Key words: Sanjiang Plain, soil, organic carbon density, carbon pool, land use change

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