Legume cover under Camellia oleifera forests enhances understory biomass carbon storage and soil CO2 flux but declines soil inorganic carbon storage on a karst steep slope
Leilei Ding, Hang Sun, Zhongfu Long, Birong Gao, Zhenduan Zhou, Yue Ye, Song Yang, Xia Lei · 2026
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Leilei Ding and seven colleagues measured carbon gains and losses when alfalfa cover grows under oil-tea camellia trees on a steep karst slope. Legume cover crops are a standard orchard soil strategy worldwide. Their full carbon ledger in these forests was unclear. The twenty twenty-five study compared legume cover with no cropping cover. Vegetation and soil carbon storage, greenhouse gas fluxes, and warming potential were all measured, alongside soil and microbe drivers.
Cover cropping significantly raised understory biomass carbon storage, both above ground and in roots. It cut nitrous oxide emissions from soil. But soil inorganic carbon storage fell, and soil carbon dioxide flux rose. The net climate effect is therefore mixed. The study warns against counting cover crops as pure carbon wins in rocky karst terrain.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leilei Ding, Hang Sun, Zhongfu Long, Birong Gao, Zhenduan Zhou, Yue Ye, Song Yang, Xia Lei |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |