Constraining a coupled erosion and soil organic carbon model using hillslope-scale patterns of carbon stocks and pool composition

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作者
Wang, Zhengang [1 ]
Doetterl, Sebastian [1 ,2 ]
Vanclooster, Marnik [1 ]
van Wesemael, Bas [1 ]
Van Oost, Kristof [1 ]
机构
[1] Catholic Univ Louvain, Earth & Life Inst TECLIM, Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
[2] Univ Ghent, Dept Appl Analyt & Phys Chem, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
关键词
soil organic carbon; soil erosion; modeling; carbon pools; TEMPERATURE SENSITIVITY; AGRICULTURAL FIELD; TILLAGE EROSION; C EROSION; MATTER; SEQUESTRATION; YIELD; REDISTRIBUTION; VARIABILITY; CALIBRATION;
D O I
10.1002/2014JG002768
中图分类号
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要
A large amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) is laterally redistributed by agricultural erosion. Recent studies have shown that this leads to strong horizontal (i.e., spatial) and vertical (i.e., with soil depth) gradients in SOC stock and C pool distribution in eroding landscapes. However, the mechanisms leading to these gradients in relation to erosion and deposition are still poorly documented. In particular, the effect of the inherent properties of SOC (as controlled by the SOC pool composition) versus the effect of depth-related soil environmental condition (i.e., differences in soil humidity, temperature, aeration, etc.) on the persistence of SOC in eroding landscapes is uncertain. Nonetheless, a detailed understanding of these factors is important to correctly assess landscape-scale soil C turnover and vulnerability to disturbance from human activities. This study utilizes observational data on long-term erosion/deposition rates and C pool composition derived from soil C fractionation experiments along an eroding agricultural hillslope to constrain a coupled erosion-SOC dynamics model. The simulation results show that the data set used can result in a robust parameter estimation of a multipool C model for an eroding landscape with parameter values that are consistent with incubation experiments. A scenario analysis, where we evaluate the contribution of different processes, demonstrates that soil redistribution is essential to explain the observation that depositional locations contain more SOC in subsoils, while the SOC content of the surface layer is similar to those observed along an eroding hillslope. The spatial variability of plant production could explain some of the observed variability in SOC content, but our results suggest that the spatial variability of SOC pool composition is mainly related to soil redistribution. Finally, we suggest that environmental factors may play a more important role than the inherent properties of SOC in determining the vertical variation of SOC mineralization. This implies that depositional C stocks might be highly vulnerable to disturbance from human activities that may reconnect the buried SOC with the atmosphere. Key Points
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页码:452 / 465
页数:14
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