Losses of soil carbon by converting tropical forest to plantations: erosion and decomposition estimated byδ13C

Guillaume, Thomas; Damris, Muhammad; Kuzyakov, Yakov

doi:10.1111/gcb.12907

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Losses of soil carbon by converting tropical forest to plantations: erosion and decomposition estimated byδ13C

Published in Global Change Biology • Feb 24, 2015

Authors:

Thomas Guillaume

Muhammad Damris

Yakov Kuzyakov

Abstract

Indonesia lost more tropical forest than all of Brazil in 2012, mainly driven by the rubber, oil palm, and timber industries. Nonetheless, the effects of converting forest to oil palm and rubber plantations on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks remain unclear. We analyzed SOC losses after lowland rain...

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Environmental science

Subsoil

Rainforest

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