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Accumulation of glomalin-related soil protein benefits to soil carbon sequestration with tropical coastal forest restoration
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  • Jing Zhang,
  • Jian Li,
  • Lingling Ma,
  • Xinhua He,
  • Zhanfeng Liu,
  • Faming Wang,
  • XL Tang,
  • Guowei Chu
Jing Zhang
South China Botanical Garden

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Jian Li
South China Botanical Garden
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Lingling Ma
South China Botanical Garden
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Xinhua He
University of California Davis
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Zhanfeng Liu
South China Botanical Garden
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Faming Wang
South China Botanical Garden
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XL Tang
South China Botanical Garden
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Guowei Chu
South China Botanical Garden
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Abstract

Reforestation is widely used to restore degraded infertile soils in the coastal area. Substantial attention has been paid to the functioning of AMF in vegetation restoration because arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered beneficial to this process. However, little is known about the effect of AMF product, glomalin-related soil protein (GRSP), on soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration during the forest restoration. We conducted a study in a tropical region where the native forest has been seriously deforested with only a few grasses and then a series of restoration approaches have been made to restore the forest ecosystem. The study sites include a barren land (BL), a Eucalyptus exserta planted forest (EF), a mixed broadleaved forest (MF) and a secondary natural forest (SF), which represents the un-, early-, middle- and late-restoration stage, respectively. The results showed that the restoration increased EE-GRSP and T-GRSP by 3.9-12.3 times and 1.9-4.6 times compared with the barren land, respectively. The proportion of GRSP in SOC is 1.6-2.0% (EE-GRSP/SOC) and 6.5-15.8% (T-GRSP/SOC), respectively. Also, a significantly positive relationship was found between the proportion of GRSP in SOC and recalcitrant SOC composition percentage (aromatic C), as well as between GRSP and soil aggregate stability. These results together suggest that the restoration of the degraded tropical forest is beneficial to soil C sequestration with the accumulation of GRSP, most likely, through an improvement of the soil aggregate stability and increase of the proportion of recalcitrant soil C chemical composition.
18 Jan 2021Submitted to Land Degradation & Development
19 Jan 2021Submission Checks Completed
19 Jan 2021Assigned to Editor
15 Feb 2021Reviewer(s) Assigned
10 May 2021Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
14 May 2021Editorial Decision: Revise Major
10 Jun 20211st Revision Received
22 Jun 2021Submission Checks Completed
22 Jun 2021Assigned to Editor
21 Aug 2021Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
07 Sep 2021Editorial Decision: Revise Minor
22 Oct 20212nd Revision Received
22 Oct 2021Submission Checks Completed
22 Oct 2021Assigned to Editor
08 Dec 2021Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
26 Dec 2021Editorial Decision: Accept
06 Jan 2022Published in Land Degradation & Development. 10.1002/ldr.4192