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JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS
卷 73, 期 10, 页码 901-906出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2009.04.019
关键词
Fertility islands; Grasses; Larrea divaricata; Prosopis flexuosa; Tree gaps
资金
- Agencia Promocion Cientifica y Tecnica [PICTR 2002 00200]
In arid environments. soil fertility exhibits a high degree of spatial and temporal heterogeneity, which results from high climatic variability seasonally and heterogeneous plant distribution. However, because most desert areas have been altered by human activities, heterogeneous fertility would originate from grazing or logging activities. We evaluated spatial and temporal heterogeneity of soil fertility in cattle-excluded sites under and outside woody plant cover (Prosopis flexuosa and Larrea divaricata), and in sites disturbed by tree removal during wet and dry season in Nacunan Biosphere Reserve (Central Monte desert of Argentina). Soil organic matter, fulvic acids, bioavailable organic matter, and nitrate were lower outside plant canopy (8.9 mg g(-1), 0.03 mg g(-1), 8.2 mg g(-1), and 4.17 mg kg(-1), respectively). Total N, humic and abundance of microbial functional groups did not show differences among sites. Most parameters differed between seasons, tending to be higher in the wet season. Overall soils of Nacunan Reserve are characterized by: a) more homogenous spatial pattern than expected from woody plant presence; b) very heterogeneous temporal pattern; and c) after two years, tree removal does not seem to induce infertile soil formation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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