Soil Carbon Stocks of the Brazilian Amazon Basin
- 1 January 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Soil Science Society of America Journal
- Vol. 59 (1) , 244-247
- https://doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1995.03615995005900010038x
Abstract
We determined stocks of C and N for soils under undisturbed vegetation across the Brazilian Amazon Basin based on 1162 soil profiles of the RADAMBRASIL survey and a digitized Brazilian soil survey map. Mean basin soil C density was 10.3 kg C m−2. Forty‐seven petagrams C and 4.4 Pg N were contained in the top 1 m of soil. Forty‐five percent of total basin soil C (21 Pg C) and 41% of total soil N (1.8 Pg N) were contained in the top 20 cm across a ≈ 5 000 000‐km2 area. Mean C/N ratio for the basin to a depth of 1 m was 10.7. Because these data represent sites with forest vegetation in the absence of significant disturbances, they represent a valuable baseline for evaluating the effects of land‐use changes on soil C stocks in the Amazon Basin.Keywords
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