A New Approach Using Modeling to Interpret Measured Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Forests : The Case of a 200 Year Pine Chronosequence on a Podzolic Soil in Scotland

Razauskaite, RitaVanguelova, ElenaCornulier, ThomasSmith, PeteRandle, TimSmith, Jo U2020-11-162020-11-162020-11-16Razauskaite, R, Vanguelova, E, Cornulier, T, Smith, P, Randle, T & Smith, J U 2020, 'A New Approach Using Modeling to Interpret Measured Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Forests : The Case of a 200 Year Pine Chronosequence on a Podzolic Soil in Scotland', Frontiers in Environmental Science, vol. 8, 527549. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2020.5275492296-665XORCID: /0000-0002-3784-1124/work/162728010https://hdl.handle.net/2164/15365Discounted APC via the Frontiers Open Access Agreement Acknowledgments: Andy Kennedy for teaching about the podzolic soil sampling and horizon recognition. Rothiemurhus estate owners and the forest manager–Piers Voisey. Forest Research agency Soil Sustainability Research and Forest Mensuration, Modeling and Forecasting Science groups for consultations, practical and financial support. Ron Summers and Samantha Broadmeadow for help with GIS maps. Dr Robert Wilson for the help with finding ancient pine woodland locations in Scotland. We acknowledge the E-OBS dataset from the EU-FP6 project ENSEMBLES (http://ensembles-eu.metoffice.com) and the data providers in the ECA&D project (http://www.ecad.eu). This work contributes to the UKRI-funded Soils-R-GRREAT project (NE/P019455/1). We thank to two reviewers for their insightful comments. Funding: The research was funded by the University of Aberdeen and Forest Research joint PhD training grant. James Hutton Institute provided help in kind. The NERC (Natural Environmental Resources Council) grant NE/P019455/1 was used to pay publishing fees.182378608engSDG 13 - Climate ActionSDG 15 - Life on Landsoil organic carbon (SOC)forest, pineafforestationRothC modelScotlandsandy acidic soilsforestpineQH301 BiologyGeneral Environmental ScienceNatural Environment Research Council (NERC)NE/P019455/1Supplementary DataQH301A New Approach Using Modeling to Interpret Measured Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Forests : The Case of a 200 Year Pine Chronosequence on a Podzolic Soil in ScotlandJournal article10.3389/fenvs.2020.527549http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85096907126&partnerID=8YFLogxKhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2020.527549/full#supplementary-material8