ORIGINAL RESEARCH
Different Human Disturbance Intensities
on Soil Organic Carbon Accumulation in
Karst Forest Land in Northwest China
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Guangxi Key Laboratory of Environmental Processes and Remediation in Ecologically Fragile Regions. Key
Laboratory of Ecology of Rare and Endangered Species and Environmental Protection (Guangxi Normal University),
Ministry of Education, Guilin 541004, China
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Agricultural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangxi Key
Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Nanning 530007, Guangxi, China
Submission date: 2024-09-26
Final revision date: 2024-10-22
Acceptance date: 2025-01-07
Online publication date: 2025-03-25
Corresponding author
Tieguang He
Agricultural Resources and Environmental Research Institute, Guangxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences/Guangxi Key
Laboratory of Arable Land Conservation, Nanning 530007, Guangxi, China
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To explore the changes in soil organic carbon under different intensities of human disturbance in the
karst forestland of Guibei West and to gain a deeper understanding of the impact of human activities
on the carbon sequestration capacity of karst forestland soil. This study selects three types of forestland
soils from virgin, secondary, and planted forests under two typical soil-forming matrices, dolomite
and limestone, in the karst region of Northwest Gui for 60 days of indoor incubation experiments. The
results showed that compared with the organic carbon content of the soil of the virgin forest stands at the
end of the incubation, the organic carbon content of the soil of the dolomite-forming matrices planted
and the soil of the secondary forest stand increased by 32.0% and 48.2%, respectively. The organic
carbon content in the forest soils of planted forests and secondary forests derived from limestone parent
material decreased by 71.1% and 63.5%, respectively. All anthropogenic disturbances decreased the
amount of organic carbon mineralized in karst forestland soils. In conclusion, under different intensities
of anthropogenic interference, dolomitic matrix forest land has a stronger ability to resist anthropogenic
interference, and it can be used to moderately develop the forest economy; limestone matrix virgin
forest land is more conducive to the fixation of organic carbon in the soil, and it can increase the organic
carbon content of the soil by reducing the interference of anthropogenic activities on the limestone
matrix forest land.