Migration of dissolved organic carbon in the hydrological processes and driving factors on the Loess Plateau

IF 5.4 1区 农林科学 Q1 GEOSCIENCES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Catena Pub Date : 2025-03-16 DOI:10.1016/j.catena.2025.108937
Libo Ge , Zixin Zhan , Xuemei Mei , Jiawei Xie , He Li
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Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) plays a key role in the forest carbon cycle. However, the interplay between rainfall and biotic factors in regulating the vertical and horizontal transport of DOC under long-term ecological restoration remains unclear. We selected four vegetation restoration types (P. tabulaeformis, P. orientalis, R. pseudoacacia, and mixed forest of P. orientalis and R. pseudoacacia) and one nested watershed (including six sub-watersheds) on the Loess Plateau as the focus of this research. We monitored the DOC concentrations in rainfall (BP), throughfall (TF), stemflow (SF), litter leachate (LL), and surface runoff (SR) during 12 rainfall events and quantified the input and output fluxes of DOC. In the rainy season of a dry year, the net fluxes of DOC into the soil were higher for P. tabulaeformis and mixed forests than for other vegetation types, and the values were 56.63 ± 15.46 kg ha−1 season-1 and 53.01 ± 9.11 kg ha−1 season-1, respectively. In contrast, the net DOC flux into the soil was relatively low for P. orientalis and R. pseudoacacia. The results showed that at the vertical interface, rainfall factors (rainfall amount and duration) and biotic factors (vegetation type, leaf area index, canopy density and litter decomposition layer thickness) had significant effects on the DOC migration of TF, SF and LL, and a combination of these factors explained 74 %, 87 % and 71 % of the total variance in TF, SF and LL, respectively. At the horizontal interface, the DOC concentration in runoff plots initially decreases and then increases as rainfall intensity augments, whereas in sub-watersheds, the DOC concentration exhibits an opposite trend, initially rising and subsequently decreasing. In addition, vegetation coverage was an important factor affecting the DOC migration of surface runoff. In the runoff plot, the lowest SR-output DOC flux was that of the mixed forest. Among the sub-watersheds, the lowest SR-output DOC flux occurred in the mixed forest watershed. This study is expected to provide a reference for further understanding the mechanism of DOC migration and transformation and evaluating the carbon sink effect in long-term vegetation restoration areas.
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Catena 环境科学-地球科学综合
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期刊介绍: Catena publishes papers describing original field and laboratory investigations and reviews on geoecology and landscape evolution with emphasis on interdisciplinary aspects of soil science, hydrology and geomorphology. It aims to disseminate new knowledge and foster better understanding of the physical environment, of evolutionary sequences that have resulted in past and current landscapes, and of the natural processes that are likely to determine the fate of our terrestrial environment. Papers within any one of the above topics are welcome provided they are of sufficiently wide interest and relevance.
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