Spatial Distribution of Organic Matter and Nitrogen in the Entic Podzols of the Prioksko-Terrasnyi Reserve and Its Relat
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SIS AND GEOGRAPHY OF SOILS
Spatial Distribution of Organic Matter and Nitrogen in the Entic Podzols of the Prioksko-Terrasnyi Reserve and Its Relationship with the Structure of Forest Phytocenoses I. V. Priputinaa, *, G. G. Frolovaa, V. N. Shanina, b, T. N. Myakshinaa, and P. Ya. Grabarnika aInstitute
of Physicochemical and Biological Problems of Soil Science, Pushchino, 142290 Russia Center for Forest Ecology and Productivity, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117997 Russia *e-mail: [email protected]
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Received November 26, 2019; revised February 5, 2020; accepted February 27, 2020
Abstract—Estimates of the spatial heterogeneity of the organic matter distribution in forest soils determined by the influence of the species and spatial structure of phytocenoses are relevant for many environmental problems, including the calculation of carbon sinks and modeling of the dynamics of forest ecosystems. We analyzed the data on the organic carbon (Corg) and total nitrogen (Ntot) contents in the O (forest litter) and AY (humus) horizons of Entic Podzols in the Prioksko-Terrasnyi Reserve (54.89° N, 37.56° E). The studied site is located in a coniferous–deciduous forest formed after overgrowing of the cutting area of pine stands. We sampled the O and AY horizons along transects between trees of different species, i.e., near the trunks, under the crown, and in the intercrown space. The contents of Corg and Ntot in the O horizon varied within 17.6–44.9 and 0.84–1.79%, respectively. The ranges for the AY horizon were greater: 0.71–8.5% (Corg) and 0.035– 0.33% (Ntot). The relationship between the contents of Corg and Ntot in the O and AY horizons was close to linear (rs = 0.72 and rs = 0.96, respectively). We also obtained similar C : N ratios for the both horizons. The litter thickness and the content of Ntot in the O horizon, as well as the content of Corg in the AY horizon, significantly differed in different parts of the transects (P < 0.05). The differences in the litter thickness and the Corg content in the O horizon under the crowns of different tree species were also significant. In samples from the AY horizon taken in intercrown spaces, the Ntot content correlated with the demand of plant species of the ground cover for soil fertility. The data obtained reflect the influence of specific features of spatial patterns of surface and root litterfall in multispecies communities of mixed forest stands on the spatial variability of Corg and Ntot contents in soil. Keywords: forest soils, spatial heterogeneity, multispecies tree stands, plant litter DOI: 10.1134/S1064229320080128
INTRODUCTION Spatial heterogeneity of soil conditions and the related variability of physical, chemical, and biological soil parameters are typical of all hierarchical levels of the soil cover and are clearly manifested in forest ecosystems [10, 11, 17, 35, 45]. In particular, differences in edaphic conditions within biogeocenoses (BGC), which are favorable for different types of vegetation and soil biota, determine the high biodiversity of fores
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