Climate and vegetation determine soil organic matter status in an alpine inner-tropical soil catena in the Fan Si Pan Mountain,Vietnam |
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Authors: | P. Podwojewski J. Poulenard Minh Luu Nguyet A. de Rouw Van Thiet Nguyen Quang Ha Pham Duc Toan Tran |
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Affiliation: | 1. IRD, UMR BIOEMCO (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement) c/o School of Bioresources Engineering and Environmental Hydrology, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Box X01, Scottsville, 3209, South Africa;2. EDYTEM, Université de Savoie/CNRS, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac, France;3. IRD, IWMI (International Water Management Institute), MSEC program c/o Soils and Fertilizers Institute (SFI) Dong Ngac, Tu Liem District-Hanoi, Hanoi, Viet Nam;4. IRD, UMR BIOEMCO, University Pierre & Marie Curie, 4 place Jussieu, 75252, Paris Cedex, France;5. SFI (Soils and Fertilizers Institute, VAAS, MARD), Dong Ngac, Tu Liem District-Hanoi, Hanoi, Viet Nam |
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Abstract: | High mountain ecosystems are generally considered to be particularly sensitive to global climate change. Studies of pedogenesis associated with altitudinal variation, vegetation type and soil carbon content on the same type of parent rock are very limited in inter-tropical mountain areas. Therefore the altitudinal variation of soil pedogenesis through 9 selected profiles from the altitude of 1340 m to 3143 m asl, the summit of the Fan Si Pan Mountain, in the north of Vietnam was examined. Fan Si Pan Mountain is composed of a homogenous alkaline granite rock and is the highest point of the Inter-tropical Continental Asia. The Soil Organic Matter properties (C, N, δ13C and δ15N contents) of the different grain-size fractions of the topsoil of 4 selected profiles corresponding to different ecosystems were also examined. |
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Keywords: | Altitudinal gradient Soil Organic Matter Mountain soil Soil genesis Podzol |
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