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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
Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, University of
Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
now at: Institute of Soil Science, CEN Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability, Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Marife D. Corre
Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, University of
Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Ekananda Paudel
Centre for Mountain Ecosystem Studies, Kunming Institute of Botany,
Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Rhett D. Harrison
World Agroforestry Centre, East & Southern Africa Region, Lusaka,
Zambia
Rainer Brumme
Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, University of
Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
Edzo Veldkamp
Soil Science of Tropical and Subtropical Ecosystems, University of
Göttingen, 37077 Göttingen, Germany
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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.
We examined the spatial variability in SOC in a 10 000 ha landscape in SW China. The spatial...