Distribution Characteristic of Soil Organic Carbon Fraction in Different Types of Wetland in Hongze Lake of China

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Soil organic carbon fractions included microbial biomass carbon (MBC), dissolved organic carbon (DOC), and labile organic carbon (LOC), which was investigated over a 0–20 cm depth profile in three types of wetland in Hongze Lake of China.

Their ecoenvironmental effect and the relationships with soil organic carbon (SOC) were analyzed in present experiment.

The results showed that both active and SOC contents were in order reduced by estuarine wetland, flood plain, and out-of-lake wetland.

Pearson correlative analysis indicated that MBC and DOC were positively related to SOC.

The lowest ratios of MBC and DOC to SOC in the estuarine wetland suggested that the turnover rate of microbial active carbon pool was fairly low in this kind of wetland.

Our results showed that estuarine wetland had a strong carbon sink function, which played important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions; besides, changes of water condition might affect the accumulation and decomposition of organic carbon in the wetland soils.