Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight permanent forest plots in China

Zhu, Jianxiao; Wang, Chuankuan; Zhou, Zhang; Zhou, Guoyi; Hu, Xueyang; Jiang, Lai; Li, Yide; Liu, Guohua; Ji, Chengjun; Zhao, Shuqing; Li, Peng; Zhu, Jiangling; Tang, Zhiyao; Zheng, Chengyang; Birdsey, Richard A.; Pan, Yude; Fang, Jingyun

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-715-2020

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-715-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-17-715-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 3

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11 Feb 2020

Research article |

| 11 Feb 2020

Increasing soil carbon stocks in eight permanent forest plots in China

Jianxiao Zhu, Chuankuan Wang, Zhang Zhou, Guoyi Zhou, Xueyang Hu, Lai Jiang, Yide Li, Guohua Liu, Chengjun Ji, Shuqing Zhao, Peng Li, Jiangling Zhu, Zhiyao Tang, Chengyang Zheng, Richard A. Birdsey, Yude Pan, and Jingyun Fang

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RC1: 'bg-2019-319 comments Minor Revision', Anonymous Referee #1, 20 Sep 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer #1', Jianxiao Zhu, 13 Nov 2019
RC2: 'Comments on "Increasing soil cabron stock in eight typical forests in China"', Anonymous Referee #3, 28 Sep 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Referee 2', Jianxiao Zhu, 13 Nov 2019
RC3: 'Comment to Zhu et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 03 Oct 2019
- AC3: 'Reply to Referee 3', Jianxiao Zhu, 13 Nov 2019

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Nov 2019) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Jianxiao Zhu on behalf of the Authors (21 Nov 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (04 Dec 2019) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Jianxiao Zhu on behalf of the Authors (05 Jan 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (10 Jan 2020) by Yakov Kuzyakov

AR by Jianxiao Zhu on behalf of the Authors (15 Jan 2020) Manuscript

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Soil is the largest carbon pool in forests. Whether forest soils function as a sink or source of atmospheric carbon remains controversial. Here, we investigated the 20-year changes in the soil organic carbon pool at eight permanent forest plots in China. Our results revealed that the soils sequestered 3.6–16.3 % of the annual net primary production across the investigated sites, demonstrating that these forest soils have functioned as an important C sink during the past 2 decades.