Data from Table 2, 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 steppe | |||||
| Cultivated to perennial grass | 12 | 300 | 110.00 | Gebhart et al. (1994) | |
| cultivated to abandoned field | 50 | 10 | 3.10 | Burke et al. (1995) | |
| cultivated to seeded grass | 6 | 5 | 0.00 | Robles & Burke (1998) | |
| cultivated to improved pasture | White et al. (1976) | ||||
| russian wildrye | 8 | 7 | 6.86 | ||
| crested wheatgrass | 8 | 7 | 18.87 | ||
| B-I-ALF (full) | 8 | 7 | 14.01 | ||
| B-I-ALF (short) | 8 | 7 | 34.15 | ||
| Mine tailing to grass-forb meadow | 5 - 80 | 10 | 60.00 | 4.01 | Titlyanova et al. (1988) |
| Coal mine spoil to dry grassland | 28 - 40 | 120 | 28.20 | Anderson (1977) | |
| Subtropical moist forest | |||||
| Cultivated to pasture | Lugo et al. (1986) | ||||
| Atlantic | 37 | 18 | -16.22 | ||
| Caonilas | 37 | 18 | -48.65 | ||
| Culebrinas | 37 | 18 | 100.00 | ||
| North-west | 37 | 18 | 8.11 | ||
| East | 37 | 18 | 37.84 | ||
| West | 37 | 18 | 35.14 | ||
| South-east | 37 | 18 | 10.81 | ||
| South-west | 37 | 18 | 67.75 | ||
| South | 37 | 18 | 113.51 | ||
| Turabo | 37 | 18 | 24.32 | ||
| Tropical dry forest | |||||
| Forest to unimproved pasture | 23 | 10 | -17.40 | Trumbore et al. (1995) | |
| Forest to improved pasture | 23 | 10 | -13.00 | Trumbore et al. (1995) | |
| Tropical moist forest | |||||
| Native forest to pasture | 10 | 40 | -30.00 | Desjardins et al. (1994) | |
| Mature forest cleared to pasture | Neill et al. (1997) | ||||
| Purto Velho | 7 | 10 | 83.18 | ||
| Calcaulandia | 8 | 10 | 342.72 | -4.02 | |
| Nova Vida-1 | 81 | 10 | 174.81 | 15.23 | |
| Nova Vida -2 | 20 | 10 | 115.54 | 24.10 | |
| Ouro Preto-Benjamin | 20 | 10 | -84.13 | 39.27 | |
| Ouro Preto-lenk | 20 | 10 | 114.83 | 2.37 | |
| Vilhena | 12 | 10 | 91.91 | ||
| Purto Velho | 7 | 30 | -14.29 | ||
| Calcaulandia | 8 | 30 | 460.00 | -90.00 | |
| Nova Vida -1 | 81 | 30 | 410.00 | 21.85 | |
| Nova Vida - 2 | 20 | 30 | 110.00 | 59.00 | |
| Ouro Preto-Benjamin | 20 | 30 | 49.17 | 74.50 | |
| Ouro Preto-lenk | 20 | 30 | 134.00 | 17.00 | |
| Vilhena | 12 | 30 | 32.50 | ||
| Tropical wet forest | |||||
| Native forest cleared for pasture | Veldkamp (1995) | ||||
| Eutric Hapludand | 25 | 50 | -87.20 | ||
| Oxic Humitropept | 25 | 50 | -6.00 | ||
| Native forest cleared for pasture | van Dam et al. (1997) | ||||
| Andic Humitropept | 18 | 60 | 142.03 | 34.93 | |