Carbon concentrations of components of trees in 10-year-old <i>Populus davidiana</i> stands within the Desertification Combating Program of Northern China

doi:10.1007/s11707-016-0562-7

Front. Earth Sci.

2016, Vol. 10

Issue (4) : 662-668 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11707-016-0562-7

RESEARCH ARTICLE

Carbon concentrations of components of trees in 10-year-old Populus davidiana stands within the Desertification Combating Program of Northern China

Huitao SHEN^1,²,Wanjun ZHANG²,Jiansheng CAO²(

),Xiang ZHANG³,Quanhong XU¹,Xue YANG⁴,Dengpan XIAO¹,Yanxia ZHAO¹

¹. Institute of Geographical Sciences, Hebei Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050011, China
². Key Laboratory for Agricultural Water Resources, Hebei Key Laboratory for Agricultural Water-Saving, Center for Agricultural Resources Research, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shijiazhuang 050021, China
³. Institute of Agro-food Science and Technology, Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Jinan 250100, China
⁴. College of Agriculture, Kunming University, Kunming 650214, China

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Abstract

Most studies do not consider the potential variation in carbon concentration among the different tree components of the same species in regional scale. This study examined the carbon concentrations of the components (i.e., foliage, branch, stem, and root) in a 10-year-old poplar species (Populus davidiana Dode) from the Desertification Combating Program of Northern China. The highest and lowest carbon concentrations were found in the stem and foliage, respectively. There was a significant difference in carbon concentrations among the different tree components. All of the observed carbon concentrations of tree components were lower than those predicted using the conversion factor of 0.5 applied to component biomass. Stem carbon made up 59.7% of the total tree biomass carbon. The power equation estimating proportion of tree biomass carbon against the independent variable of diameter at breast height explained more than 90% of the variability in allocation of carbon among tree components. Tree height, as a second independent variable is also discussed. Our results suggest that the difference in organic carbon concentration among tree components should be incorporated into accurately develop forest carbon budget. Moreover, further investigations on how the diameter at breast height equation developed in the present study performs across broader scales are required.

Keywords biomass carbon equation carbon content destructive sampling diameter at breast height poplar

Corresponding Author(s): Jiansheng CAO

Just Accepted Date: 25 February 2016 Online First Date: 24 March 2016 Issue Date: 04 November 2016

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Huitao SHEN,Wanjun ZHANG,Jiansheng CAO, et al. Carbon concentrations of components of trees in 10-year-old Populus davidiana stands within the Desertification Combating Program of Northern China[J]. Front. Earth Sci., 2016, 10(4): 662-668.

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Fig.1 Sampling plots of poplar trees in the DCBT region. I: water resources protection zone in Yanshan mountainous and hilly region; II: desertificated land zone in agro-pasture region; III: Otingdag sandy land zone.

Tab.1 Descriptive characteristics of the 9 sampling sites in the Desertification Combating Program (DCBT) of Northern China

Tab.2 Biomass of tree components from sampled trees (n = 9)

Fig.2 Relative carbon contribution of the different components of 10-year-old poplar trees (Mean±SD).

Tab.3 C concentrations, observed (OC) and predicted C (PC) stocks of tree components, and the estimation of the relative difference (ERD) between OC and PC

Fig.3 Relationship between biomass carbon and diameter at breast height (DBH) (cm) of tree components for poplar species.

Tab.4 Biomass carbon equations of tree components for 10-year-old poplar trees

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