干旱区生态环境知识资源中心(Arid): Light thinning can improve soil water availability and water holding capacity of plantations in alpine mountains

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DOI	10.3389/fpls.2022.1032057
	Light thinning can improve soil water availability and water holding capacity of plantations in alpine mountains
	Gao, Yuan; He, Zhibin; Zhu, Xi; Chen, Longfei; Du, Jun
通讯作者	He, ZB
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
ISSN	1664-462X
出版年	2022
卷号	13
英文摘要	The establishment of large-scale forest plantations in the arid and semi-arid area of the Qilian Mountains in China has effectively protected water and soil resources and enhanced carbon sequestration capacity of forest ecosystems. However, the effects of different management practices in these plantations on soil water holding capacity (SWHC) and soil water availability (SWA) are uncertain in this fragile ecosystem. Here, we investigated the effects of no thinning (NT), light thinning (LT, 20% thinning intensity), and heavy thinning (HT, 40% thinning intensity) on SWHC and SWA in different soil depths of a forest plantation, and compared them to those in a natural Picea crassifolia forest (NF). Our results revealed that at low soil water suction stage, SWHC in the plantations (LT, HT, and NT) was greater in the topsoil layer (0-40 cm) than that in the NF site, while SWHC in the subsoil layer (40-80 cm) in NF was significantly greater than that in the thinning stands. At medium and high-water suction stage, SWHC in LT and NF stands was greater than that in HT and NT. Soil water characteristic curves fitted by VG model showed that the relative change in soil water content in LT topsoil layer was the smallest and SWHC was greatest. Changes in soil physicochemical properties included higher bulk density and lower total porosity, which reduced the number of macropores in the soil and affected SWHC. The bulk density, total porosity, silt content, and field capacity were the main factors jointly affecting SWA. High planting density was the main reason for the low SWA and SWHC in NT, but this can be alleviated by stand thinning. Overall, 20% thinning intensity (light intensity thinning) may be an effective forest management practice to optimize SWHC and SWA in P. crassifolia plantations to alleviate soil water deficits.
英文关键词	P crassifolia soil water characteristic curve thinning intensity soil water holding capacity soil water availability
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000876415600001
WOS关键词	ORGANIC-MATTER ; SPRUCE FOREST ; MOISTURE ; CARBON ; TEMPERATE ; VARIABILITY ; RECOVERY ; RAINFALL ; IMPACTS ; EASTERN
WOS类目	Plant Sciences
WOS研究方向	Plant Sciences
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/392857
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Yuan,He, Zhibin,Zhu, Xi,et al. Light thinning can improve soil water availability and water holding capacity of plantations in alpine mountains[J],2022,13.
APA	Gao, Yuan,He, Zhibin,Zhu, Xi,Chen, Longfei,&Du, Jun.(2022).Light thinning can improve soil water availability and water holding capacity of plantations in alpine mountains.FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE,13.
MLA	Gao, Yuan,et al."Light thinning can improve soil water availability and water holding capacity of plantations in alpine mountains".FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 13(2022).