Impact of thinning on carbon storage of dead organic matter across larch and oak stands in South Korea
- Authors
- Kim, Seongjun; Han, Seung Hyun; Lee, Jongyeol; Kim, Choonsig; Lee, Sang-Tae; Son, Yowhan
- Issue Date
- 8월-2016
- Publisher
- SISEF-SOC ITALIANA SELVICOLTURA ECOL FORESTALE
- Keywords
- Carbon Sequestration; Dead Organic Matter; Effect Size; Forest Thinning
- Citation
- IFOREST-BIOGEOSCIENCES AND FORESTRY, v.9, pp.593 - 598
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- IFOREST-BIOGEOSCIENCES AND FORESTRY
- Volume
- 9
- Start Page
- 593
- End Page
- 598
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/87952
- DOI
- 10.3832/ifor1776-008
- ISSN
- 1971-7458
- Abstract
- Dead organic matter is important in carbon (C) sequestration because it accounts for a significant proportion of forest C storage. As thinning could alter the C storage of dead organic matter, this study aimed to assess the effect of thinning on the C storage of dead organic matter including the forest floor, mineral soil at a depth of 0-30 cm, and coarse woody debris in larch and oak forests in South Korea. Differing intensities of thinning were applied to four larch and four oak stands, and the C storage of dead organic matter in thinned and control plots was compared three years after thinning. The effect sizes were estimated based on Hedges' d to measure the influence of thinning. Total C storage of dead organic matter tended to be higher in the thinned plots (larch: 82.45 Mg C ha(-1) and oak: 82.56 Mg C ha(-1)) than in the control plots (larch: 72.07 Mg C ha(-1) and oak: 74.79 Mg C ha(-1)). However, estimation of effect size found that the cumulative effect size was not significant for the C storage of the forest floor, mineral soil, coarse woody debris, and dead organic matter. Only a few of the individual treatments exhibited significant effect sizes for mineral soil C storage in two larch stands and coarse woody debris C storage in two oak stands. The results indicated that the applied thinning treatments might have no consistently significant impact on the C storage of dead organic matter in the larch and oak stands after three years, though thinning may have had an idiosyncratic influence on the C storage of dead organic matter in a few of the study stands.
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