Soil carbon stocks

We measured soil carbon stocks from different topographic positions in unlogged hill dipterocarp forest, the Semangkok Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia. We estimated carbon stock using data of soil bulk densities for five established soil pits in the Reserve. Average soil carbon stock was about 110 Mg-C ha-1 in the 1-m depth and accumulated around 60% of their stock in the top 30 cm layer. Soil carbon stocks differed throughout the topographic positions in the plot. The ridge position had a higher soil carbon stock than that in other slope positions

Figure 1. Location of soil pits in the 6-ha plot. Contour interval is 10m.

Figure 2. Soil carbon stock of each soil pit in the 6-ha plot.

Data Set

This data set contains one data file (csv format). The file contains data of soil profile and soil carbon stocks of five soil pits in the Semangkok plot.

• >semangkok_soilC.csv (2 KB)

Sato, T., Morisada, K., Niiyama, K., Abd Rhaman, K. and Azizi, R. (2014) Soil Carbon Stock: Semangkok. Datasets. Available on-line [http://www.ffpri.affrc.go.jp/labs/EA-FDPN/] from Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.

• Sato, T et al. (in press) Soil carbon stock in a hill dipterocarp forest at Semangkok Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia. Kanto Journal of Forest Research. (in Japanese with English summary)
• Tange, T. et al.(1998) Relationship between topography and soil properties in a hill Dipterocarp forest dominated by Shorea curtisii at Semangkok Forest Reserve, Peninsular Malaysia. Journal of Tropical Forest Science 10: 398-409.