Does afforestation of pastures increase sequestration of soil carbon in Mediterranean climates?

Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment

Volumn 159, Issue , 2012, Pages 176-183

  Hoogmoed, M ^a   Cunningham, S C ^a   Thomson, J R ^a   Baker, P J ^a   Beringer, J ^a   Cavagnaro, T R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Afforestation; Carbon:nitrogen ratio; Meta analysis; Mixed species plantings; Soil carbon; Soil nitrogen

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHRONOSEQUENCE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; LITTER; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; META-ANALYSIS; PASTURE; PLANTATION FORESTRY; SOIL CARBON; SOIL NITROGEN; TIMESCALE; WOODLAND;

EID: 84864507730     PISSN: 01678809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agee.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

References (49)

1. ABARES Atlas of Australian Soils 2004, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry, Canberra.
2. Adams M.A., Attiwill P.M. Nutrient cycling and nitrogen mineralization in eucalypt forests of South-Eastern Australia. Plant Soil 1986, 92:319-339.
3. Aerts R., Chapin F.S.I. The mineral nutrition of wild plants revisited: a re-evaluation of process and patterns. Adv. Ecol. Res. 2000, 30:1-67.
4. Aggangan R.T., O'Connell A.M., McGrath J.F., Dell B. Fertilizer and previous land use effects on C and N mineralization in soils from Eucalyptus globulus plantations. Soil Biol. Biochem. 1998, 30:1791-1798.
5. Allen D.E., Mendham D.S., Singh B.P., Cowie A., Wang W., Dalal R.C., Raison R.J. Nitrous oxide and methane emissions from soil are reduced following afforestation of pasture lands in three contrasting climate zones. Aust. J. Soil Res. 2009, 47:443-458.
6. Berthrong S.T., Jobbágy E.G., Jackson R.B. A global meta-analysis of soil exchangeable cations, pH, carbon, and nitrogen with afforestation. Ecol. Appl. 2009, 19:2228-2241.
7. BOM Climate Data Online 2009, Australian Government Bureau of Meteorology, Viewed April 2011. .
8. Brooks S.P., Gelman A. General methods for monitoring convergence of iterative simulations. J. Comput. Graph. Stat. 1998, 7.
9. Burger B., Reich P., Cavagnaro T.R. Trajectories of change: riparian vegetation and soil conditions following livestock removal and replanting. Austral. Ecol. 2010, 35:980-987.
10. Carson J.K., Gleeson D.B., Clipson N., Murphy D.V. Afforestation alters community structure of soil fungi. Fungal Biol. 2010, 114:580-584.
11. 13C NMR characterization of leaves and litters from the reafforestated area of Mustigarufi in Sicily (Italy). Open Magn. Reson. J. 2010, 3:89-95.
12. Cunningham S.C., Metzeling K.J., Mac Nally R., Thomson J.R., Cavagnaro T.R. Changes in soil carbon of pastures after afforestation with mixed species: sampling, heterogeneity and surrogates. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2012, 158:58-65.
13. Davis M.R., Condron L.M. Impact of grassland afforestation on soil carbon in New-Zealand: a review of paired-site studies. Aust. J. Soil Res. 2002, 40:675-690.
14. De Deyn G.B., Cornelissen J.H.C., Bardgett R.D. Plant functional traits and soil carbon sequestration in contrasting biomes. Ecol. Lett. 2008, 11:516-531.
15. Di Castri F. An ecological overview of the five regions of the world with a Mediterranean climate. Biogeography of Mediterranean Invasions 1991, 3-16. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. R.H. Groves, F. Di Castri (Eds.).
16. Dorrough J., Moxham C. Eucalypt establishment in agricultural landscapes and implications for landscape-scale restoration. Biol. Conserv. 2005, 123:55-66.
17. Gelman A., Hill J. Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models 2007, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. George E.I., Foster D.P. Calibration and empirical Bayes variable selection. Biometrika 2000, 2000(87):731-747.
19. George S.J., Kelly R.N., Greenwood P.F., Tibbett M. Soil carbon and litter development along a reconstructed biodiverse forest chronosequence of South-Western Australia. Biogeochemistry 2010, 101:197-209.
20. Guo L., Wang M., Gifford R. The change of soil carbon stocks and fine root dynamics after land use change from a native pasture to a pine plantation. Plant Soil 2007, 299:251-262.
21. Guo L.B., Gifford R.M. Soil carbon stocks and land use change: a meta analysis. Glob. Change Biol. 2002, 8:345-360.
22. Kasel S., Bennett L.T. Land-use history, forest conversion, and soil organic carbon in pine plantations and native forests of South Eastern Australia. Geoderma 2007, 137:401-413.
23. Kasel S., Bennett L.T., Tibbits J. Land use influences soil fungal community composition across central Victoria, south-eastern Australia. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2008, 40:1724-1732.
24. Lal R. Carbon sequestration in dryland ecosystems. Environ. Manage. 2004, 33:528-544.
25. Lal R. Soil science and the carbon civilization. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2007, 71:1425-1437.
26. Lal R. Managing soils and ecosystems for mitigating anthropogenic carbon emissions and advancing global food security. Bioscience 2010, 60.
27. Larson D.F., Ambrosi P., Dinar A., Rahman S.M., Entler R. Carbon Markets, Institutions, Policies and Research. Policy Research Working Paper 4761 2008, Development Research Group, Sustainable Rural and Urban Development Team, The World Bank, Washington, DC.
28. LeBauer D.S., Treseder K.K. Nitrogen limitation of net primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems is globally distributed. Ecology 2008, 89:371-379.
29. Lin D.S., Greenwood P.F., George S., Somerfield P.J., Tibbett M. The development of soil organic matter in restored biodiverse Jarrah forests of South-Western Australia as determined by ASE and GCMS. Environ. Sci. Pollut. Res. Int. 2011, 18:1070-1078.
30. Livesley S.J., Kiese R., Miehle P., Weston C.J., Butterbach-Bahl K., Arndt S.K. Soil-atmosphere exchange of greenhouse gases in an Eucalyptus marginata woodland, a clover-grass pasture, and Pinus radiata and Eucalyptus globulus plantations. Glob. Change Biol. 2009, 15:425-440.
31. Lunn D.J., Best N., Whittaker J. Generic reversible jump MCMC using graphical models. Stat. Comput. 2009, 19:395-408.
32. Lunn D.J., Thomas A., Best N., Spiegelhalter D. WinBUGS-a Bayesian modelling framework: concepts, structure, and extensibility. Stat. Comput. 2000, 10:325-337.
33. McKenzie N.J., Jacquier D.W.L.J., Cresswell A.H.P. Estimation of Soil Properties Using the Atlas of Australian Soils. CSIRO Land and Water Technical Report 11/00 2000, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra.
34. 13C CP/MAS NMR spectroscopy. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2002, 34:1669-1673.
35. Munro N.T., Fischer J., Wood J., Lindenmayer D.B. Revegetation in agricultural areas: the development of structural complexity and floristic diversity. Ecol. Appl. 2009, 19:1197-1210.
36. Paul K.I., Polglase P.J., Nyakuengama J.G., Khanna P.K. Change in soil carbon following afforestation. Forest Ecol. Manage. 2002, 168:241-257.
37. Peel M.C., Finlayson B.L., McMahon T.A. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. 2007, 11:1633-1644.
38. Polglase P.J., Paul K.I., Hawkins C., Siggins A., Turner J., Booth T., Crawford D., Jovanovic T., Hobbs T., Opie K., Almeida A., Carter J. Regional Opportunities for Agroforestry Systems in Australia. RIRDC Publication No. 08/176 2008, Rural Industries Research Development Corporation, Canberra.
39. Post W.M., Emanuel W.R., Zinke P.J., Stangenberger A.G. Soil carbon pools and world life zones. Nature 1982, 298:156-159.
40. Post W.M., Kwon K.C. Soil carbon sequestration and land-use change: processes and potential. Glob. Change Biol. 2000, 6:317-327.
41. Poulton P.R., Pye E., Hargreaves P.R., Jenkinson D.S. Accumulation of carbon and nitrogen by old arable land reverting to woodland. Glob. Change Biol. 2003, 9:942-955.
42. Reay D.S., Dentener F., Smith P., Grace J., Feely R.A. Global nitrogen deposition and carbon sinks. Nature Geosci. 2008, 1:430-437.
43. Six J., Callewaert P., Lenders S., De Gryze S., Morris S.J., Gregorich E.G., Paul E.A., Paustian K. Measuring and understanding carbon storage in afforested soils by physical fractionation. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 2002, 66:1981-1987.
44. Smith M., Conte P., Berns A.E., Thomson J., Cavagnaro T.R. Spatial patterns of, and environmental controls on, soil properties at a riparian-paddock interface. Soil Biol. Biochem. 2012, 49:38-45.
45. Spohn M., Giani L. Total, hot water extractable, and oxidation-resistant carbon in sandy hydromorphic soils - analysis of a 220-year chronosequence. Plant Soil 2011, 338:183-192.
46. 2 fertilization and climate variability. Glob. Biogeochem. Cycl. 2007, 21:GB4018.
47. van Groenigen K.J., Six J., Hungate B.A., de Graaff M.A., van Breemen N., van Kessel C. Element interactions limit soil carbon storage. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2006, 103:6571-6574.
48. Viallefont V., Raftery A.E., Richardson S. Variable selection and Bayesian model averaging in case-control studies. Stat. Med. 2001, 20:3215-3230.
49. Yaalon D.H. Soil in the Mediterranean region: what makes them different?. Catena 1997, 28:157-169.