Claim · model-written summary
Pinus strobus plant carbon gains coincided with a 16% decrease in soil carbon.
- Taxon
- P. strobus
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Pinus strobuse0e1
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Verbatim
e0“Plant carbon gains with P. strobus were paralleled by a decrease of 16% in soil carbon”
e1“Plant carbon gains with P. strobus were paralleled by a decrease of 16% in soil carbon”
Title
RAMESH LAUNGANI; JOHANNES M. H. KNOPS GCB Bioenergy 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1757-1707.2009.01031.x
Other claims from this paper (16)
- Observation After five years Pinus strobus had 6.5 times the harvestable aboveground biomass of Quercus ellipsoidalis.
- Observation After five years Pinus strobus had ten times the harvestable aboveground biomass of grassland species.
- Observation Pinus strobus accrued the largest total plant carbon pool, 1375 g C per square metre.
- Observation Schizachyrium scoparium had the largest grassland total plant carbon pool.
- Observation Quercus ellipsoidalis accrued 850 g C per square metre.
- Observation Quercus macrocarpa accrued 370 g C per square metre.
- Observation Poa pratensis accrued 390 g C per square metre.
- Observation Solidago canadensis accrued 132 g C per square metre.
- Observation Lespedeza capitata accrued 283 g C per square metre.
- Observation Pinus strobus and Quercus ellipsoidalis were the only species with significant carbon sequestration.
- Observation Total ecosystem carbon accumulation varied across species from −21.3 to +169.8 g C per square metre per year.
- Association Quercus ellipsoidalis plant carbon gains coincided with a nonsignificant 9% soil carbon decline.
- Observation Pinus strobus allocated most carbon aboveground.
- Observation Quercus ellipsoidalis allocated most carbon to belowground biomass.
- Mechanism Harvesting Pinus strobus aboveground biomass for biofuel would leave no net carbon sequestration because soil carbon declines offset plant carbon gains.
- Mechanism Harvesting Quercus ellipsoidalis aboveground biomass would yield net belowground carbon sequestration but less aboveground biomass.