Spatial variability in soil organic carbon in a tropical montane landscape: associations between soil organic carbon and land use, soil properties, vegetation, and topography vary across plot to landscape scales

de Blécourt, Marleen; Corre, Marife D.; Paudel, Ekananda; Harrison, Rhett D.; Brumme, Rainer; Veldkamp, Edzo

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-123-2017

Articles | Volume 3, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-123-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-123-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 3

Original research article

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08 Aug 2017

Original research article |

| 08 Aug 2017

Spatial variability in soil organic carbon in a tropical montane landscape: associations between soil organic carbon and land use, soil properties, vegetation, and topography vary across plot to landscape scales

Marleen de Blécourt, Marife D. Corre, Ekananda Paudel, Rhett D. Harrison, Rainer Brumme, and Edzo Veldkamp

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Nov 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewer 1', Marleen de Blécourt, 01 Feb 2017
RC2: 'Review #2', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 Dec 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewer 2', Marleen de Blécourt, 02 Feb 2017

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (06 Mar 2017) by Bas van Wesemael

AR by Marleen de Blécourt on behalf of the Authors (07 Mar 2017) Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (31 Mar 2017) by Bas van Wesemael

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Apr 2017) by Bas van Wesemael

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (24 Apr 2017)

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (13 Apr 2017) by Bas van Wesemael

ED: Publish as is (12 Jun 2017) by Bas van Wesemael

ED: Publish as is (17 Jun 2017) by Kristof Van Oost (Executive editor)

AR by Marleen de Blécourt on behalf of the Authors (26 Jun 2017) Manuscript

Short summary

We examined the spatial variability in SOC in a 10 000 ha landscape in SW China. The spatial variability in SOC was largest at the plot scale (1 ha) and the associations between SOC and land use, soil properties, vegetation, and topographical attributes varied across plot to landscape scales. Our results show that sampling designs must consider the controlling factors at the scale of interest in order to elucidate their effects on SOC against the variability within and between plots.