Biological potential of four indigenous tree species from seasonally dry tropical forest for soil restoration

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• 作者：Eliane Ceccon ; Itzel Sánchez ; Jennifer S. Powers
• 关键词：Multi ; purpose species ; Decomposition rate ; Litterfall ; Agroforestry systems ; Carbon ; Nitrogen
• 刊名：Agroforestry Systems
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：June 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：89
• 期：3
• 页码：455-467
• 全文大小：586 KB
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• 作者单位：Eliane Ceccon (1)
  Itzel Sánchez (2)
  Jennifer S. Powers (3)
  
  1. Centro Regional de Investigaciones Multidisciplinárias, UNAM, Av. Universidad s/n, Circuito 2, Col. Chamilpa, 62210, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
  2. Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, Mexico, Mexico
  3. Department of Ecology, Evolution & Behavior and Plant Biology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Biomedical and Life Sciences
• 刊物主题：Life Sciences
  Forestry
  Agriculture
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1572-9680

文摘

Litterfall and its subsequent decomposition in the soil are two essential ecosystem processes. In order to determine the biological potential of a species to aid soil restoration, it is necessary to evaluate litter production, its temporal variation, and rates of decomposition and nutrient cycling. In this study, we examined patterns of litterfall production, quality, and decomposition of two slow-growing (Crescentia alata and Eysenhardtia polystachya) and two fast-growing (Leucaena leucocephala and Pithecellobium dulce), multi-purpose indigenous species from seasonally dry tropical forest, in a 10-year-old plantation in Morelos, Mexico. Average litterfall was 7.82?±?2.69?Mg?ha? year? and varied significantly among species as follows: P. dulce?>?L. leucocephala?>?C. alata?=?E. polstachya. Leaf litter comprised the highest fraction in all species studied. In a litterbag experiment, all species had fast mass loss in the first 183?days of decomposition, coinciding with the rainy season. L. leucocephala had significantly higher decomposition than the other species. Nitrogen percentages increased significantly as decomposition progressed for all species except for E. polystachya while Carbon percentages during decomposition significantly decreased only in C. alata and L. leucocephala. C. alata had the highest average C/N ratio and L. leucocephala the lowest. We recommended for soil biological restoration, P. dulce because it is a fast-growing tree, with a rapid canopy closure and a high litter production and L. Leucocephala, which produces large amounts of rapidly decomposing mulch with high amount of nutrients, which can be rapidly released into the soil.