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Title: Amazon Basin forest pyrogenic carbon stocks: First estimate of deep storage
Authors: Koele, Nina
Bird, Michael I.
Haig, Jordahna Ellan Ann
Marimon Júnior, Ben Hur
Marimon, Beatriz Schwantes
Phillips, Oliver L.
Oliveira, Eddie Lenza de
Quesada, Carlos Alberto
Feldpausch, Ted R.
Keywords: Carbon
Digital Storage
Forestry
Organic Carbon
Soils
Aeolian Deposition
Biogeochemical Cycling
Carbon Stability
Mineral Soils
Optimal Sampling Design
Soil Organic Carbon
Soil Organic Carbon Stocks
Total Organic Carbon
Soil Surveys
Carbon Sequestration
Eolian Deposit
Estimation Method
Fire
Forest Soil
Pyrolysis
Soil Carbon
Soil Depth
Soil Horizon
Soil Profile
Total Organic Carbon
Amazon Basin
Issue Date: 2017
metadata.dc.publisher.journal: Geoderma
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Volume 306, Pags. 237-243
Abstract: Amazon Basin forest soils contain considerable soil organic carbon stocks; however, the contribution of soil pyrogenic carbon (PyC) to the total is unknown. PyC is derived from local fires (historical and modern) and external inputs via aeolian deposition. To establish an initial estimate of PyC stocks in non-terra preta forest with no known history of fire, to assess site and vertical variability, as well as to determine optimal sampling design, we sampled 37 one hectare forest plots in the Amazon Basin and analysed PyC via hydrogen pyrolysis of three individual samples per plot and of bulked samples to 200 cm depth. Using our data and published total organic carbon stocks, we present the first field-based estimate of total PyC stock for the Amazon Basin of 1.10 Pg over 0–30 cm soil depth, and 2.76 Pg over 0–100 cm soil depth. This is up to 20 times higher than previously assumed. Three individual samples per 1 ha are sufficient to capture the site variability of PyC in our plots. PyC showed significant, large-scale variability among plots. To capture 50% of the PyC in 200 cm soil profiles, soil must be sampled to a depth of at least 71 cm. PyC represents a significant (11%) portion of total organic carbon in soil profiles 0–200 cm depth. This finding highlights the potentially important role that historical fire has played in modifying soil C stocks. Our data suggest that PyC is an important carbon pool for long-term storage, involved in millennial scale biogeochemical cycling, particularly in the subsurface soil. © 2017 Elsevier B.V.
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.07.029
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