Soil Carbon Concentrations and Their Stability in the Active and Permafrost Layers of the Da Xing'an Mountains, Northeast China

Zihao Zhang, Shuying Zang, Xiaodong Wu, Ruifeng Xie, Xiangwen Wu, Yuqi Zhu, Tianrui Li, Lixin Liu and Wenjing Zhao

Permafrost and Periglacial Processes, 2025, vol. 36, issue 4, 702-714

Abstract: Southern boundary areas of high‐latitude permafrost regions may represent the future permafrost temperature regimes; therefore, understanding the carbon stocks and their stability in these systems can shed light on the permafrost carbon cycle under a warming climate. In this study, we sampled soils at three sites representing three differing land covers (forest swamp, dry forest, and shrub swamp) located in the southern boundary area of a high‐latitude permafrost region and investigated their carbon fractions and the relationships of these fractions with soil physicochemical parameters in the active and permafrost layers. The results show that the proportion of active carbon is higher in permafrost than in the active layer under forest swamp and dry forest, implying that carbon pools in the permafrost are more decomposable. However, in shrub swamp, the active carbon components in the permafrost layer are lower than in the active layer. Soil pH and water content are the most significant factors associated with soil organic carbon concentration both in the active layers and in the permafrost layers. Our results suggest that, although soil organic carbon concentrations largely decrease with depth, the proportion of the forest swamp, dry forest labile carbon is higher in the permafrost layer than in the active layer and that the vertical distribution of labile carbon proportions is related to land covers.

Date: 2025
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