• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제40권4호
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• pp.326-329
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• 2007

Quantifying soil organic carbon (SOC) has long been considered to improve our understanding of soil productivity, soil carbon dynamics, and soil quality. And also SOC could contribute as a major soil management factor for prescribing fertilizers and controlling of soil erosion and runoff. Reducing tillage intensity has been recommended to sequester SOC into soil. On the other hand, determination of traditional SOC could barely identify the tillage practices effect. Physical soil fractionation has been reported to improve interpretation of soil tillage practices impact on SOC dynamics. However, most of these researches were focused onupland soils and few researches were conducted on paddy soils. Therefore, the objective of this research was to evaluate paddy soil tillage impact on SOC by physical soil fractionation. Soils were sampled in conventional-tillage (CT), partial-tillage (PT), no-tillage (NT), and shallow-tillage (ST)plots at the National Institute of Crop Science research farm. Samples were obtained at the three sampling depth with 7.5-cm increment from the surface and were sieved with 0.25- and 0.053-mm screen. Soil organic carbon was determined by wet combustion method. Significant difference of SOC contentwas found among sampling soil depth and soil particle size. SOC content tended to increase at the ST plot with increasing size of soil particle fraction. We conclude that quantifying soil organic carbon by physical soil particle fractionation could improve understanding of SOC dynamics by soil tillage practices.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.69-79
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• 2014

Soil organic carbon (SOC) in the Arctic is vulnerable to climate change. However, research on SOC stored in the high Arctic regions is currently very limited. Thus, this study was aimed at understanding the distribution and characteristics of SOC with respect to geomorphology and vegetation in Svalbard. In August 2011, soil samples were collected near the Vestre Lov$\acute{e}$nbreen moraine. Sampling sites were chosen according to altitude (High, Mid, and Low) and differences in levels of vegetation establishment. Vegetation coverage, aboveground biomass, and SOC contents were measured, and density-size fractionation of SOC was conducted. The SOC content was the highest in the Mid site ($126.9mg\;g^{-1}$) and the lowest in the High site ($32.1mg\;g^{-1}$), although aboveground biomass and vegetation coverage were not different between these two sites. The low SOC content measured at the High site could be related to a slower soil development following glacial retreat. On the other hand, the Low site contained a high amount of SOC despite having low vegetative cover and a high ratio of sand particles. These incompatible relationships between SOC and vegetation in the Low site might be associated with past site disturbances such as runoff from snow/glacier melting. This study showed that geomorphological features combined with glacier retreat or melting snow/glacier effects could have affected the SOC distribution and vegetation establishment in the high Arctic.

• 유기물자원화
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.85-92
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• 2015

기후변화 문제와 관련하여 탄소 격리와 토양 유기물의 중요성에 대한 관심이 증가하고 있다. 토양 탄소 격리를 산정하기 위해서는 물 추출 토양 유기탄소(WESOC)와 토양 호흡에 의해 이산화탄소로 배출되는 탄소량과 같은 토양 유기탄소를 분석하는 것이 중요하다. 이러한 성분의 분석에는 시간이 많이 소요된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 분석시간이 짧게 소요되는 중적외선분광분석법으로 물 추출 유기탄소와 토양 호흡에 의한 이산화탄소량을 분석할 수 있는 가능성을 알아보았다. 토양을 $100^{\circ}C$와 $350^{\circ}C$ 건조오븐에서 처리하고 중적외선분광계로 분석하여 WESOC와 30일, 60일, 90일, 120일 간 토양호흡에 의해 발생하는 이산화탄소량과의 상관을 분석하였다. 물 추출 토양 유기탄소에 대한 예측 모델에서는 표준 일반 변수화(SNV) 전처리를 통해 0.6937의 결정 계수를 보였고 30일간의 토양 호흡 발생 이산화탄소 예측 모델에서는 $350^{\circ}C$ 건조 토양에 대해 1차 도함수 전처리를 통해 0.8933의 결정 계수를 보여 중적외선분광분석법을 사용하여 토양 중 유기탄소의 분획별 정량에 사용할 수 있는 가능성을 보였다.