Published online 3 August 2006
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 70:1541-1546 (2006)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0119
© 2006 Soil Science Society of America
677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA
Carbon Turnover and Carbon-13 Natural Abundance under Land Use Change in Semiarid Savanna Soils of La Pampa, Argentina
A. Zacha,
H. Tiessena,* and
E. Noellemeyerb
a Institute for Tropical Agronomy, Universität Göttingen, Grisebachstr. 6, 37077 Göttingen, Germany. H. Tiessen, current address: InterAmerican Institute for Global Change Research, c/o INPE, Ave. dos Astronautas 1758, São José dos Campos, sp. 12227-010, Brazil
b Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Nacional de La Pampa, 6300 Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina

View larger version (8K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 1. Change of original C3-derived carbon (mg C g1 bulk soil) over time after land use conversion from degraded (C3) land into C4pastures at Toay.
|
|

View larger version (7K):
[in a new window]
|
Fig. 2. Sequestration of pasture-derived C4-C (mg C g1 bulk soil) with time of pasture introduction on original C3 vegetation at Toay.
|
|
Copyright © 2006 by the Soil Science Society of America.