Soil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession

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dc.creatorvan der Sander, Masha T
dc.creatorPowers, Jennifer S
dc.creatorNorden, Natalia
dc.creatorSalgado Negret, Beatriz
dc.creatorBongers, Frans
dc.creatorDelgado, Diego
dc.creatorDent, Daisy H
dc.creatorDupuy, Juan Manuel
dc.creatorFinegan, Bryan
dc.creatorJakovac, Catarina C
dc.creatorMeave, Jorge A
dc.creatorMuñoz, Rodrigo
dc.creatorPiotto, Daniel
dc.creatorCáceres Siani, Yasmani
dc.creatorSanchez Azofeifa, G. Arturo
dc.creatorPoorter, Lourens
dc.creatory 15 autores más
dc.date2022-11-22T19:24:12Z
dc.date2022-11-22T19:24:12Z
dc.date2022-01-24
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-09T02:12:16Z
dc.descriptionThe recovery of soil conditions is crucial for successful ecosystem restoration and, hence, for achieving the goals of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Here, we assess how soils resist forest conversion and agricultural land use, and how soils recover during subsequent tropical forest succession on abandoned agricultural fields. Our overarching question is how soil resistance and recovery depend on local conditions such as climate, soil type and land-use history. For 300 plots in 21 sites across the Neotropics, we used a chronosequence approach in which we sampled soils from two depths in old-growth forests, agricultural fields (i.e. crop fields and pastures), and secondary forests that differ in age (1–95 years) since abandonment. We measured six soil properties using a standardized sampling design and laboratory analyses. Soil resistance strongly depended on local conditions. Croplands and sites on high-activity clay (i.e. high fertility) show strong increases in bulk density and decreases in pH, carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) during deforestation and subsequent agricultural use. Resistance is lower in such sites probably because of a sharp decline in fine root biomass in croplands in the upper soil layers, and a decline in litter input from formerly productive old-growth forest (on high-activity clays). Soil recovery also strongly depended on local conditions. During forest succession, high-activity clays and croplands decreased most strongly in bulk density and increased in C and N, possibly because of strongly compacted soils with low C and N after cropland abandonment, and because of rapid vegetation recovery in high-activity clays leading to greater fine root growth and litter input. Furthermore, sites at low precipitation decreased in pH, whereas sites at high precipitation increased in N and decreased in C : N ratio. Extractable phosphorus (P) did not recover during succession, suggesting increased P limitation as forests age. These results indicate that no single solution exists for effective soil restoration and that local site conditions should determine the restoration strategies.
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dc.identifierhttps://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/12147
dc.identifieropenAccess
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3344
dc.languageen
dc.publisherThe Royal Society Publishing
dc.relationPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B
dc.relationhttps://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0074
dc.subjectPH
dc.subjectCARBONO
dc.subjectCARBON
dc.subjectFOSFORO
dc.subjectPHOSPHORUS
dc.subjectRESILIENCIA
dc.subjectRESILIENCE
dc.subjectNITROGENO
dc.subjectNITROGEN
dc.subjectDENSIDAD
dc.subjectDENSITY
dc.subjectDENSIDAD A GRANEL
dc.subjectBULK DENSITY
dc.subjectSede Central
dc.titleSoil resistance and recovery during neotropical forest succession
dc.typeArtículo

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