Data from Table 1, W.M. Post, and K.C. Kwon. 2000.
W.M. Post, and K.C. Kwon. 2000. Soil Carbon Sequestration and Land-Use Change: Processes and Potential. Global Change Biology 6:317-327.
| Site history | Years since agriculture | Soil sample depth (cm) | Rate of change
(g m–2 y–1) |
Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAX | AVG | ||||
| Cool temperate moist forest | |||||
| Cultivated to pine plantation | 42 - 88 | 0 - 10 | -8.56 | -4.44 | Pregitzer & Palik (1996) |
| 42 - 88 | 30 - 40 | -5.27 | -2.78 | ||
| Old field succession to northern hardwoods | 1 - 60 | 10 | 16.03 | 15.06 | Zak et al. (1990) |
| Long-term agriculture to oak forest | 83 | 68.6 | 61.70 | 59.60 | Jenkinson (1971) |
| Long-term agriculture to oak forest (P amended) | 82 | 68.6 | 33.30 | 28.00 | Jenkinson (1971) |
| Old field succession to mixed oak stand | >250 | 15 | 28.30 | 9.40 | Robertson & Vitousek (1981) |
| Old field to northern hardwoods | >100 | 10 | 17.30 | 11.60 | Robertson & Tiedje (1984) |
| Old field to managed pine plantation | 10 - 50 | 15.4 | 65.66 | Wilde (1964) | |
| Abandoned field to mixed forest | 2 - 65.5 | 42.8 | 23.90 | 2.15 | Hamburg (1984) |
| Constructed dike to forest | 100 | 12 | 26.30 | Beke (1990) | |
| Mine spoil to forest | |||||
| Harrison #1 | 21 | 22.9 | 50.09 | Leisman (1957) | |
| Warren | 32 | 22.9 | 19.90 | Leisman (1957) | |
| Silver | 41 | 22.9 | 38.40 | Leisman (1957) | |
| Kinney | 51 | 22.9 | 38.40 | Leisman (1957) | |
| Warm temperate thorn steppe | |||||
| Grazing exclusion - shrub live oak | 18 | 3.8 | -9.44 | Brejda (1997) | |
| Grazing exclusion - mountain mahogany | 18 | 3.8 | -6.11 | Brejda (1997) | |
| Grazing exclusion - shrubless openings | 8 | 3.8 | 12.78 | Brejda (1997) | |
| Warm temperate dry forest | |||||
| New parent material to chaparral - oak | 41 | 100 | 70.87 | Ulery (1995) | |
| New parent material to chaperral - pine | 41 | 100 | 59.93 | Ulery (1995) | |
| New parent material to chaparral - chamise | 41 | 100 | 25.43 | Ulery (1995) | |
| New parent material to chaparral - ceanothus | 41 | 100 | 22.00 | Ulery (1995) | |
| Warm temperate moist forest | |||||
| Old field to pine to hardwood succession | 200 | 3 | 11.20 | 2.40 | Switzer et al. (1979) |
| 120 - 180 | 10 | 12.90 | 4.50 | Montes & Christensen (1979) | |
| Old field to pine-natural succession | 40 - 60 | 5 | 2.94 | Christensen & MacAller (1985) | |
| -4.41 | Christensen & MacAller (1985) | ||||
| -14.12 | Christensen & MacAller (1985) | ||||
| ~50 | 33 | 28.40 | Schiffman & Johnson (1989) | ||
| 50 - 70 | 17.8 | 22.60 | 11.81 | Hosner & Graney (1970) | |
| 110 | 68.5 - 91.4 | 31.70 | 5.90 | Billings (1938) | |
| Old field to managed pine plantation | ~50 | 33 | 24.80 | Schiffman & Johnson (1989) | |
| 70 | 12.7 | 52.85 | 25.56 | Coile (1940) | |
| 40 | 60 | 3.60 | Richter et al. (1999) | ||
| Subtropical dry forest | |||||
| Abandoned pasture | 25 | 38.1 | -20.36 | -13.08 | Smith et al. (1951) |
| Long-term agriculture to secondary forest | 35 | 25 | 80.00 | Brown & Lugo (1990) | |
| Long-term agriculture to mahogany plantation | 50 | 25 | 38.00 | Brown & Lugo (1990) | |
| Subtropical moist forest | |||||
| Long-term agriculture to secondary forest | 35 | 23 | 28.00 | Weaver et al. (1987) | |
| Long-term agriculture to secondary forest | 100 | 50 | 300.00 | 105.00 | Brown & Lugo (1990) |
| Coffee plantation to abandoned coffee shade | 20 | 23 | 99.00 | Weaver et al. (1987) | |
| Forest plantation with intensive site preparation | 2 - 34 | 43.5 | 566.71 | -51.49 | Gholz & Fisher (1982) |
| Subtropical wet forest | |||||
| 10-year-old crop fields to secondary forest | 38 - 47 | 50 | 566.70 | 148.80 | Brown & Lugo (1990) |
| Long-term agriculture to secondary forest | ~35 | 23 | 98.70 | Weaver et al. (1987) | |
| 10-year-old crop fields to mahogany plantation | 51 | 50 | 310.00 | Brown & Lugo (1990) | |
| Coffee plantation to abandoned coffee shade | 30 | 23 | 10.30 | Weaver et al. (1987) | |
| Tropical moist forest | |||||
| Cultivated field to Eucalyptus plantation | 11.5 | 55 | 12.17 | Bashkin et al. (1998) | |
| 1 year clearing to forest plantation | 10.5 | 100 | -1569.60 | -47.13 | Sanchez et al. (1985) |
| Swidden agriculture (forest fallow period) | 10 | 10 | 143.30 | 68.90 | Aweto (1981) |
| Short-term cropping to forest fallow | 50 | 40 | 740.00 | 61.20 | Ramakrishnan & Toky (1981) |
| Tropical wet forest | |||||
| Primary succession (P1) | 126 | 1.5 | 3.36 | 1.18 | Vitousek et al. (1983) |
