1. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, China; 2. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3. Institute of College of Natural Resources and Environment, North-west A & F University, Yangling 712100, China; 4. Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A & F University, Yangling 712100, China; 5. Institute of College of Forestry college, North-west A & F University, Yangling 712100, China
Abstract:With the aim to analyze the effects of vegetation restoration on soil aggregates on the Loess Plateau, various categories of the distribution and stability of soil aggregates in different restoration ages of vegetation zones were studied. With three typical restoration zones including the steppe zone, the forest-steppe zone and the forest zone at different latitude on the Loess Plateau as the object of this research. The results showed that the distribution and stability of soil aggregates were significantly influenced by vegetation zones. For the five indexes including > 0.25mm soil water-stable aggregates (WR0.25), mean weight diameter (EWMD), geometric mean diameter (EGMD) and soil organic matter (SOM), these indexes in the forest zone were the highest, followed by the forest-steppe zone, and these in the steppe zone were the lowest. Different vegetation restoration condition and vegetation zone had different impacts on soil aggregates and their stability, with the trend of shrubs > grasslands > trees in the forest-steppe zone and trees > grasslands in the forest zone. pectively, indexes including WR0.25、EGMD and SOM in different restoration conditions increased with restoration ages, but other indexes including percentage of aggregate destruction (PAD) and soil erodibility (K) decreased. No significant difference has been found in the fractal dimension (D). The redundancy analysis showed that the distribution and stability of soil aggregates were mostly effected by the vegetation zones, and the restoration ages as following. The type of the restoration had a significant interaction with the vegetation zones and the restoration ages. This research is conducive to better understand the mechanism of regional ecological restoration process.
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