Boreal coniferous forest density leads to significant variations in soil physical and geochemical properties

Bastianelli, Carole; Ali, Adam A.; Beguin, Julien; Bergeron, Yves; Grondin, Pierre; Hély, Christelle; Paré, David

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3445-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 14

Biogeosciences, 14, 3445–3459, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3445-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Biogeosciences, 14, 3445–3459, 2017

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3445-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 14

Research article 21 Jul 2017

Research article | 21 Jul 2017

Boreal coniferous forest density leads to significant variations in soil physical and geochemical properties

Carole Bastianelli et al.

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3445-2017-supplement

Data sets

Soil data : Biogeochemistry analysis - LWvsMF - June2017 C. Bastianelli, A. A. Ali, J. Beguin, Y. Bergeron, P. Grondin, C. Hély, and D. Paré https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.12565.52965

Short summary

Our analyses showed that soil biogeochemistry could distinguish two forest ecosystems that coexist in Quebec: open lichen woodlands and closed-canopy black spruce–moss forests. Variations in carbon stocks, base cation concentrations and crystallinity of aluminium and iron were related to the different vegetation covers. This research was carried out as a first step to identify geochemical indicators of canopy cover types that could be useful in further palaeoecological studies.