Journal of Range and Watershed Managment

Analysis of effect of landuse change on soil carbon sequestration (Case study: Vaz watershed in Nour city)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Meisam Alizadeh 1
Behrouz Malekpour 2
Hamid Arya 3
Samaneh Verdian 4

1 Young reserche club, Islamic Azad University of Nour branch, Iran.

2 Research Professor, Institute of Forest and Rangelands Research of Iran

3 Islamic Azad University, light Branch, Young Researchers and Elite Club, Noor, Iran

4 Msc student in Natural Resources Engineering- Rangeland, University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Sari

https://doi.org/10.22059/jrwm.2019.238807.1153
Abstract
In near future, earth's temperature fluctuation will be considerable. This phenomenon is the result of concentration of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. Therefore, it seems necessary to prevent of its happening. The biological methods including plant biomass and phytomass and soil are proposed as the best and practical ways. Watersheds are the greatest physical and geomorphologic units which are contain two important factors soils and plants. So that the current trend of climate change is a double challenge and threat to the sustainability of watersheds. Soil and plant carbon sequestration are economic feasibility act and adaptable to their environment which they can be provided with land management ways by kind of scientific method. Therefore by scientific method of landuse planning, this research has been carried by aims of study of kind landuse on soil carbon sequestration and determines best of landuse in Vaz watershed of Nour city. Soil sampling was carried at the selected different landuse area at two depths of 0-15 and 15-30 centimeters and after analyzing soil organic matters were calculated. Results showed that forests are rich at both depths. But on the farms and orchards, rangelands and rural areas have had least amounts of organic material. Therefore Vaz watershed has 741666 tons of reserve of carbon.

Keywords

Soil carbon sequestration
Vaz watershed
carbon storage
Landuse
green house gasses
Journal of Range and Watershed Managment
Volume 72, Issue 1
Spring 2019
Pages 183-193

  • Receive Date 26 August 2017
  • Revise Date 12 February 2019
  • Accept Date 20 February 2019
  • Publish Date 22 May 2019

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