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Changes in Ecosystem Carbon and Nitrogen in a Loblolly Pine Plantation over the First 18 Years

^a Environmental and Resource Sciences, Fleischmann Agriculture Bldg/370, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557
^b Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab., P.O. Box 2008, Building 1059, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6422

^* Corresponding author (dwj{at}cabnr.unr.edu).

Eighteen years after the establishment of a loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantation, ecosystem C content had approximately tripled (from 54 to 161 Mg C ha^-1) primarily because of increases in tree biomass. Ninety-three percent of the net ecosystem C accumulated in biomass (100 Mg C ha^-1) and 6% of net ecosystem C accumulated in the forest floor (13 Mg C ha^-1). No statistically significant changes in soil C were found. Growth responses to fertilization noted in Year 4 were no longer statistically significant in Year 18. Nitrogen accumulation in aboveground biomass and forest floor were approximately equal (averaging approximately 270 kg N ha^-1 each) and could have come from a combination of atmospheric deposition, soil N mineralization, and, in the treated plots, fertilizer input. No statistically significant changes in soil N content were found. The results of this study are similar to those from a previous study in a loblolly pine plantation in South Carolina but contrast with those in nearby deciduous forests where substantial changes in soil C and N over similar time periods have been noted.

Abbreviations: DBH, diameter at breast height • GLM, General Linear Model • NERP, National Experimental Research Park • WBC, Walkley-Black C

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