Forest Research: Open Access
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Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Louisiana State University Extension, Baton Rouge, LA, USA

Publications

• Research   
  Impact of Loblolly Pine (Pinus taeda) Afforestation Efforts in East Texas on Soil Carbon Allocations
  Author(s): Brian Oswald*, Jason Grogan, William Wedge, Kenneth Farrish and Frantisek Majs
  
  Understanding ecosystem carbon dynamics is of increasing importance with atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations on the rise. Land management strategies such as land use conversion, effect ecosystem carbon cycling dynamics and can alter the quantity of carbon sequestered in vegetation and soils. In East Texas and much of the southern United States, there has been a trend of converting marginal pastureland into loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) plantations. This afforestation, like other land use conversions, leads to a redistribution of carbon in vegetation and soil carbon sinks. Three marginal pastures in East Texas were afforested with loblolly pine and monitored to quantify the organic carbon sequestered as a result of this land use change. Fifteen years after plant, soils were sampled to assess the change in soil organic carbon in the top 40 cm of soil, as well as the accumulate.. View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2168-9776.23.12.463

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