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Research article
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02 Mar 2016
Research article |
| 02 Mar 2016
Windthrows increase soil carbon stocks in a central Amazon forest
Leandro T. dos Santos
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Daniel Magnabosco Marra
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Biogeochemical Processes Department, Max Planck Institute
for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
AG Spezielle Botanik und Funktionelle Biodiversität,
Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Susan Trumbore
Biogeochemical Processes Department, Max Planck Institute
for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany
Plínio B. de Camargo
Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Piracicaba,
Brazil
Robinson I. Negrón-Juárez
Climate Sciences Department, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory, Berkeley, USA
Adriano J. N. Lima
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Gabriel H. P. M. Ribeiro
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Joaquim dos Santos
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
Niro Higuchi
Laboratório de Manejo Florestal, Instituto Nacional
de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil
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In the Amazon forest, wind disturbances can create canopy gaps of many hundreds of hectares. We show that inputs of plant litter associated with large windthrows cause a short-term increase in soil carbon stock. The degree of increase is related to soil clay content and tree mortality intensity. The higher carbon content and potentially higher nutrient availability in soils from areas recovering from windthrows may favor forest regrowth and increase vegetation resilience.
In the Amazon forest, wind disturbances can create canopy gaps of many hundreds of hectares. We...
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