黄土高原地区土壤有机碳和无机碳储量及含量特征

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Soil carbon pools play a significant role in regulating global carbon balance and mitigating greenhouse gases. Hence, estimating soil carbon stocks is critical for assessing the carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems. Based on the soil carbon data obtained from the land quality geochemical survey in the study area, this study estimated the stocks of total, organic, and inorganic carbon of various soil layers in Northwest China using the unit soil carbon amount (USCA) method. It analyzed the content characteristics of organic and inorganic carbon in soil under different soil, land use, and topographic types. The results of this study are as follows: (1) All the soil layers at depths ranging from 0 to 2 m in the study area exhibited total carbon of 10 099.4 Mt, including 1 224.8 Mt in the topsoil layer (0~0.2 m), 5 345.9 Mt in the upper soil layer (0~1.0 m), and 4 753.5 Mt in the lower soil layer (1.0~2.0 m). Inorganic carbon predominated in all the soil layers, with its proportion gradually increasing from top to bottom, whereas organic carbon was principally concentrated in the topsoil layer; (2) The high-value areas of inorganic carbon content were primarily distributed in the Huangshui Valley of Qinghai Province, and the Loess Plateau region covering the Longzhong area of Gansu Province, northern Shaanxi Province, and southern Ningxia Province. In contrast, the high-value areas of organic carbon content were chiefly distributed in the Qilian Mountains; (3) The aeolian sandy soil exhibited the lowest organic, inorganic, and total carbon contents in the topsoil and deep soil layers. The dark loessial soil and the loessal soil showed the highest inorganic carbon content in the topsoil layer. The dark felty soil and the dark loessial soil displayed the highest organic carbon contents in the topsoil and deep soil layers, respectively. Additionally, the dark felty soil had the highest total carbon content in the topsoil and deep soil layers; (4) Forests exhibited the highest organic carbon content in the topsoil and deep soil layers, and the highest total carbon content in the topsoil layer. Grasslands showed the highest inorganic and total carbon contents in the topsoil layer. Cultivated land had the highest inorganic carbon content in the deep soil layer. Bare land manifested the lowest inorganic, organic, and total carbon contents; (5) Mountains displayed the highest organic and total carbon contents in the topsoil and deep soil layers. Loess had the highest inorganic carbon content in the topsoil and deep soil layers. Plains showed intermediate carbon contents generally between those of loess and mountains. Besides, high-altitude areas manifested extremely high organic carbon content.

Key words： Loess Plateau organic carbon inorganic carbon carbon stock land quality geochemistry

Received: 03 December 2022 Published: 26 February 2025

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Xing-Xing DUAN,Xiao-Long LIU,Bao-Hua HAN, et al. Stocks and content of organic and inorganic carbon in soil of the Loess Plateau region[J]. Geophysical and Geochemical Exploration, 2025, 49(1): 239-247.

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Distribution of sampling points in the study area

The percentage of organic carbon and inorganic carbon reserves in different soil layers of the study area

Distribution of inorganic carbon content in surface (a) and deep (b) soil layers of the study area

Distribution of organic carbon content in surface (a) and deep (b) soil layers of the study area

The percentage of soil types

Carbon content of different soil types in the study area (unit:%)

Organic carbon and inorganic carbon content in different land use types in the study area

Organic and inorganic carbon content in different terrain and land forms of the study area

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