Clear-cutting reduces nitrate leaching in a pine plantation of high natural N status

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 170, Issue 1-3, 2002, Pages 43-53

  Parfitt, R L ^a   Salt, G J ^a   Hill, L F ^a  

^a LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Ammonium; Andisol; Clear felling; DOC; Nitrification

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CATCHMENTS; HARVESTING; LEACHING; NITRATES; PH EFFECTS; RAIN; SPRINGS (WATER);

WEED GROWTH;

FORESTRY;

CLEARCUTTING; LEACHING; NITRATE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL WATER; STREAMWATER; WATER CHEMISTRY;

NEW ZEALAND;

PINUS RADIATA;

EID: 0037109087     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1127(01)00760-5     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Beets, P.N., Brownlie, R.K., 1987. Puruki experimental catchment: site, climate, forest management, and research. NZ J. For. Sci. 17, 137-160.
2. Blakemore, L.C., Searle, P.L., Daly, B.K., 1987. Methods for chemical analysis of soils. NZ Soil Bureau Scientific Report No. 80. DSIR.
3. Cooper, A.B., 1986. Suppression of nitrate formation within an exotic conifer plantation. Plant Soil 93, 383-394.
4. Cooper, A.B., Hewitt, J.E., Cooke, J.G., 1987. Land use impacts on streamwater nitrogen and phosphorus. NZ J. For. Sci. 17, 179-192.
5. Cronin, S.J., Hedley, M.J., Neall, V.E., Smith, R.G., 1998. Agronomic impact of tephra fallout from the 1995 and 1996 Ruapehu volcano eruptions, New Zealand. Environ. Geol. 34, 21-30.
6. Dahlgren, R.A., Driscoll, C.T., 1994. The effects of whole-tree clear-cutting on soil processes at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, New Hampshire, USA. Plant Soil 158, 239-262.
7. Dyck, W.J., Webber, B.D., Barton, P.G., 1981. Soil-water nutrient concentrations after clearfelling and burning Pinus radiata. NZ J. For. Sci. 11, 128-144.
8. Dyck, W.J., Gosz, J.R., Hodgkiss, P.D., 1983. Nitrate losses from disturbed ecosystems in New Zealand - a comparative analysis. NZ J. For. Sci. 13, 14-24.
9. Dyck, W.J., Mees, C.A., Hodgkiss, P.D., 1987. Nitrogen availability and comparison to uptake in two New Zealand Pinus radiata forests. NZ J. For. Sci. 17, 338-352.
10. Ellis, A.J., Mahon, W.A.J., 1977. Chemistry and Geothermal Systems. Academic Press, New York.
11. Homann, P.S., Cole, D.W., Van Miegroet, H., Compton, J.E., 1994. Relationships between cation and nitrate concentrations in soil solutions from mature and harvested red aider stands. Can. J. For. Res. 24, 1646-1652.
12. Iseman, T.M., Zak, D.R., Holmes, W.E., Merrill, A.G., 1999. Revegetation and nitrate leaching from Lake Sates northern hardwood forests following harvest. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 63, 1424-1429.
13. Jewitt, K., Daugharty, D., Krause, H.H., Arp, P.A., 1995. Watershed responses to clear-cutting: effects on soil solutions and stream water discharge in central New Brunswick. Can. J. Soil Sci. 75, 475-490.
14. Johnson, D.W., Kelly, J.M., Swank, W.T., Cole, D.W., Van Miegoet, H., Hornbeck, J.W., Pierce, R.S., Van Lear, D., 1988. The effects of leaching and whole-tree harvesting on cation budgets of several forests. J. Environ. Qual. 17, 418-424.
15. Mitchell, M.J., Driscoll, C.T., Kahl, J.S., Likens, G.E., Murdoch, P.S., Pardo, L.H., 1996. Climatic control of nitrate loss from forested watersheds in the northeastern United States. Environ. Sci. Technol. 30, 2609-2612.
16. Neal, C., Reynolds, B., Adamson, J.K., Stevens, P.A., Neal, M., Harrow, M., Hill, S., 1998. Analysis of the impacts of major anion variations on surface water acidity particularly with regard to conifer harvesting: case studies from Wales and northern England. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 2, 303-322.
17. Nichol, S.E., Harvey, M.J., Boyd, I.S., 1997. Ten years of rainfall chemistry in New Zealand. Clean Air 31, 30-37.
18. Parfitt, R.L., Percival, H.J., Dahlgren, R.A., Hill, L.F., 1997. Soil and soil solution chemistry under pasture and radiata pine in New Zealand. Plant Soil 91, 279-290.
19. Parfitt, R.L., Salt, G.J., Saggar, S., 2001. Post-harvest residue decomposition and nitrogen dynamics in Pinus radiata plantations of different N status. For. Ecol. Manage. 154, 55-67.
20. Qualls, R.G., Haines, B.L., Swank, W.T., Tyler, S.W., 2000. Soluble organic and inorganic nutrient fluxes in clearcut and mature deciduous forests. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64, 1068-1077.
21. Rosen, K., Aronson, J.A., Eriksson, H.M., 1996. Effects of clearcutting on streamwater quality in forest catchments of central Sweden. For. Ecol. Manage. 83, 237-244.
22. Ross, D.J., Tate, K.R., Scott, N.A., Feltham, C.W., 1999. Land-use change: effects on soil carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus pools and fluxes in three adjacent ecosystems. Soil Biol. Biochem. 31, 803-813.
23. Saggar, S., Hedley, C.B., Salt, G.J., 2001. Soil microbial biomass, metabolic quotient, and carbon and nitrogen mineralisation in 25-year-old Pinus radiata. Aust. J. Soil Res. 39, 491-504.
24. Scott, N.A., Parfitt, R.L., Ross, D.J., Salt, G.J., 1998. Carbon and nitrogen transformations in New Zealand plantation forest soils from sites with different N status. Can. J. For. Res. 28, 967-976.
25. Smethurst, P.J., Nambiar, E.K.S., 1995. Changes in soil carbon and nitrogen during the establishment of a second crop of Pinus radiata. For. Ecol. Manage. 73, 145-155.
26. Smith, C.T., Dyck, W.J., Beets, P.N., Hodgkiss, P.D., Lowe, A.T., 1994. Nutrition and productivity of Pinus radiata following harvest disturbance and fertilization of coastal sand dunes. For. Ecol. Manage. 66, 5-38.
27. Sollins, P., McCorison, F.M., 1981. Nitrogen and carbon solution chemistry of an old growth coniferous forest watershed before and after cutting. Water Resour. Res. 17, 1409-1418.
28. Staaf, H., Olsson, B.A., 1994. Effects of slash removal and stump harvesting on soil water chemistry in a clearcutting in SW Sweden. Scand. J. For. Res. 9, 305-310.
29. Stevenson, C.D., 1978. Simple apparatus for monitoring land disposal systems by sampling percolating soil waters. Environ. Sci. Technol. 12, 329-331.
30. Titus, B.D., Roberts, B.A., Deering, K.W., 1997. Soil solution concentrations on three white birch sites in central Newfoundland following different harvesting intensities. Biomass Bioenergy 13, 313-330.
31. Vitousek, P.M., Andariese, S.W., Matson, P.A., Morris, L., Sanford, R.L., 1992. Effects of harvest intensity, site preparation, and herbicide use on soil nitrogen transformations in a young loblolly pine plantation. For. Ecol. Manage. 49, 277-292.
32. Weston, C.J., Attiwill, P.M., 1996. Clearfelling and burning effects on nitrogen mineralization and leaching in soils of old-age Eucalyptus regnans forests. For. Ecol. Manage. 89, 13-24.
33. Whitehead, D., Kelliher, F.M., 1991. Modelling the water balance of a small Pinus radiata catchment. Tree Physiol. 9, 17-33.