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Continuous Replanting Could Degrade Soil Health in Short-Rotation Plantation Forestry
Purpose of ReviewContinuous replanting of land with the same or similar plant species can result in the accumulation of harmful soil microbes, which...
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Carbon sequestration potential of plantation forests in New Zealand - no single tree species is universally best
BackgroundPlantation forests are a nature-based solution to sequester atmospheric carbon and, therefore, mitigate anthropogenic climate change. The...
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Identification of plantation areas for the endangered oriental sweetgum tree (Liquidambar orientalis Miller, 1768) in Türkiye
Only two places in the world are home to the 2,500 hectares of fragmented forests of the tertiary relict oriental (Anatolian) sweetgum tree species ( L...
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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Forest Plantation Soils in Eastern Plateau and Hill Region of India: a Promising Approach Toward Climate Change Mitigation
Plantation tree species have an immense potential for significantly reducing the atmospheric carbon dioxide and hence regulating climate change. The...
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Divergent effects of biochar amendment and replacing mineral fertilizer with manure on soil respiration in a subtropical tea plantation
Applying biochar amendment and manure in tea plantation ecosystems can diminish soil acidification and degradation. However, the impact of these...
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Effects of soil subsidence on plantation agriculture in Indonesian peatlands
Several million hectares of Indonesian peatlands have been converted to plantations, with oil palm being the most important plantation crop. This has...
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Impact of Climate Change on Irrigation Case Study on Wonji Shoa Sugar Plantation Estate
Irrigation is significant in increasing agriculture production and productivity for the sustainability of the country’s economy. Impacts on existing...
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Responses of soil nematode community within soil aggregates to tea plantation age
It is increasingly believed that soil nematodes play an important role in the soil community and have a pronounced influence on the evaluation of...
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Ecosystem carbon budgeting under Swietenia macrophylla King plantation in sub humid foothills of Eastern Himalayans of India
Global warming, threats to humankind as driven by the emissions of different greenhouse gases (GHGs) including carbon dioxide (CO 2 ), is becoming a...
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Short-Term Effects of Bamboo Plantation on Soil Carbon Fractions, Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Eastern Himalayas, India
Forest degradation and land-use change are considered as the major activities resulting in loss of carbon (C) from soil and both the issues are major...
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Fog and rain water chemistry in a tea plantation of northern Taiwan
Tea plantations are expanding globally and many are in mountainous areas with frequent fog but few studies have examined fog chemistry in these...
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Assessing carbon sequestration in a high-diversity restoration plantation in the Atlantic Forest of southwestern Brazil
The United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration spotlights the urgent need for global efforts to restore ecosystems and mitigate climate change....
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Plant roots and associated mycelia enhance soil N transformation through different mechanisms in a karst plantation
PurposePlant roots and associated mycelia play a crucial role in soil nitrogen (N) cycling. However, the underlying mechanisms by which roots and...
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Comparative Assessment of Tree Carbon Sequestration Potential and Soil Carbon Dynamics of Major Plantation Crops and Homestead Agroforestry of Kerala, India
Designing sustainable food and agricultural systems is a pressing need at a time when we already are at the low end of achieving SDG 13 (Climate...
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Integrated Eco-Evaluation Practices of Industrial Forest Plantation in Peatland of West Kalimantan, Indonesia
This chapter focuses on peatland management and conservation on a business basis. Peatlands play an important role in Earth’s ecosystems, as...
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Smallholder oil palm plantation sustainability assessment using multi-criteria analysis and unmanned aerial vehicles
Oil palm agriculture has caused extensive land cover and land use changes that have adversely affected tropical landscapes and ecosystems. However,...
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Effects of Forest Management on Soil Organic Carbon Stability and Dynamics in Chinese Fir Plantation
Chinese fir is a very important timber tree species specific in subtropical China, and it has been extensively planted for timber production through...
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Rhizospheric soil organic carbon accumulated but its molecular groups redistributed via rhizospheric soil microorganisms along multi-root Cerasus humilis plantation chronosequence at the karst rocky desertification control area
Though the relationships between the microorganism communities and the edaphic factors in rhizosphere soil along the plantation chronosequence have...
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Achieving Land Degradation Neutrality Through Tea Plantation: Future Prospect for Combating Climate Change in the Northeast Himalayan Region of India
Tea cultivation, being a woody perennial land-use, has an enormous potential to sequester a vast amount of carbon (C) in its biomass and soil...
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Linkages among leaf nutrient concentration, resorption efficiency, litter decomposition and their stoichiometry to canopy nitrogen addition and understory removal in subtropical plantation
BackgroundThe prevalence of understory removal and anthropogenic nitrogen (N) deposition has significantly altered the ecological processes of forest...
