Published online 22 August 2006
Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 70:1797-1806 (2006)
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0352
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Soil Properties and Carbon Sequestration of Afforested Pastures in Reclaimed Minesoils of Ohio
D. A. N. Ussiri*,
R. Lal and
P. A. Jacinthe
Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, School of Environment and Natural Resources, The Ohio State Univ., 2021 Coffey Rd., Columbus, OH 43210. P.A. Jacinthe, current address: Dep. of Geology, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis (IUPUI), 723 W. Michigan St., SL122, Indianapolis, IN 462302

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Fig. 1. Effects of land-use change on water-stable aggregates (WSA) by soil depth in reclaimed minesoils of southeastern Ohio. Error bars represent standard error of the means. HWF = hardwood forest. For each soil depth, different capital letters indicate significant differences between sites (P < 0.05). For each site, different lower-case letters indicate significant differences between depths (P < 0.05).
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Fig. 2. Effects of land-use change on mean weight diameter (MWD) by soil depth in reclaimed minesoils of southeastern Ohio. Error bars represent standard error of the means. HWF = hardwood forest. For each depth, different capital letters indicate significant differences between sites (P < 0.05). For each site, different lower-case letters indicate significant differences between the depths (P < 0.05).
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Fig. 3. Effects of pasture afforestation on soil organic carbon (SOC) concentration in soil macroaggregates by depth. Error bars represent standard error of the means. HWF = hardwood forest. For each soil depth and aggregate size, different capital letters indicate significant differences between sites (P < 0.05). For each site and depth, different lower-case letters indicate significant differences between aggregate sizes (P < 0.05).
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Fig. 4. Effects of land-use change on root biomass in reclaimed minesoils of southeastern Ohio. Error bars represent standard error of the means. HWF = hardwood forest. Different capital letters indicate significant differences between sites for the 0- to 50-cm depth (P < 0.05). Different lowercase letters indicate significant differences between sites for each soil depth (P < 0.05).
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