Effects of forest thinning on soil-plant carbon and nitrogen dynamics

SH Bai, R Dempsey, F Reverchon, TJ Blumfield… - Plant and Soil, 2017 - Springer
Aims Corymbia spp.(previously included in the genus Eucalyptus) are common species in
sub/tropical Australia and produce high quality timber and round logs. Thinning of native …

Humidity-driven changes in growth rate, photosynthetic capacity, hydraulic properties and other functional traits in silver birch (Betula pendula)

A Sellin, A Tullus, A Niglas, E Õunapuu, A Karusion… - Ecological …, 2013 - Springer
A study was performed on saplings of silver birch (Betula pendula Roth) growing at the free
air humidity manipulation site, which was established to investigate the effect of increased …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of stand characteristics and management activities on aboveground carbon storage in Japanese cedar and cypress plantations: Sustainable …

K Win, T Sato - Trees, Forests and People, 2024 - Elsevier
Tree plantations substantially sequester carbon in aboveground biomass and soil and serve
as an alternative to forests in mitigating global warming. This study investigated the …

A multi-site approach toward assessing the effect of thinning on soil carbon contents across temperate pine, oak, and larch forests

S Kim, C Kim, SH Han, ST Lee, Y Son - Forest ecology and management, 2018 - Elsevier
Large divergence of the post-thinning change in soil carbon contents has impaired the
evaluation of the thinning effect on forest carbon storage reported in previous case studies …

Intraspecific variation in fine root respiration and morphology in response to in situ soil nitrogen fertility in a 100-year-old Chamaecyparis obtusa forest

N Makita, Y Hirano, T Sugimoto, T Tanikawa, H Ishii - Oecologia, 2015 - Springer
Soil N fertility has an effect on belowground C allocation, but the physiological and
morphological responses of individual fine root segments to variations in N availability under …

Short-term effects of thinning on the understory natural environment of mixed broadleaf-conifer forest in Changbai Mountain area, Northeast China

Q Liu, Y Sun, G Wang, F Cheng, F **a - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Background The understory natural environment is critical in affecting the succession and
recovery process of vegetation, stand structure, and species composition of forest. The …

Characterization of soil organic matter in perhumid natural cypress forest: comparison of humification in different particle-size fractions

JS Chen, TL Chung, G Tian, CY Chiu - Botanical Studies, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The Chamaecyparis forest is a valuable natural resource in eastern
Asia. The characteristics of soil humic substances and the influence of environmental factors …

Age-related changes in water and nitrogen utilization in crop trees and understory vegetation in a hinoki cypress plantation forest in Kochi City, southern Japan

Y Inagaki, K Miyamoto, A Sakai - Nitrogen, 2022 - mdpi.com
Age-related changes in water and nitrogen utilization of crop and understory vegetation in a
hinoki cypress plantation forest were investigated from the age of 21 to 46 years in Kochi …

Nutrient budgets in four Japanese forests based on short-and long-term methods

Y Inagaki, K Fujii, R Urakawa - Bulletin of the Forestry and Forest …, 2022 - jstage.jst.go.jp
Estimation of the nutrient accumulation rate in tree biomass is important for understanding
the nutrient budgets of forest ecosystems but choosing a suitable method can be …

Substrate-induced respiration responses to nitrogen and/or phosphorus additions in soils from different climatic and land use conditions

K Sawada, Y Inagaki, K Toyota, T Kosaki… - European Journal of Soil …, 2017 - Elsevier
The fates of carbon (C) input to soils widely vary under different nutrient availability. In this
study, both initial substrate-induced respiration (SIR) rates and substrate-induced growth …