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Climate Change 2016
October 27-29, 2016
Volume 7, Issue 9(Suppl) J Earth Sci Clim Change
ISSN: 2157-7617 JESCC, an open access journal
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October 24-26, 2016 Valencia, Spain
World Conference onClimate Change
Soil organic carbon in forest and non-forest land in Lithuania
Povilas Zemaitis1, Vidas Stakenas 1, Kęstutis Armolaitis1, Gintaras Kulbokas2
1 Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Lithuania
2 State Forest Service, Lithuania
The Land Use Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) reporting under UNFCCC require specific carbon values in forest
floor and mineral or peat topsoil in the land of different use. By the support of Norwegian Financial Mechanisms for
Lithuania “Norway grants” we have estimated soil organic carbon stocks in forest, arable land and grassland. The study mainly
covered not fertile Arenosols and, in opposite, fertile Luvisols and Retisols. The study was performed in 2015 at National Forest
Inventory (NFI) permanent sample plots grid (approximately 9x9 km, in total 764 plots) that covers the whole territory of
Lithuania. Forest floor samples were collected for the mass and carbon content, where as mineral top soil samples (from 0-10
cm and 10-30 cm surface layers) - for bulk density and carbon stock determination. It was found that in fertile soils the carbon
stocks were higher in forest land as compared with arable land, while in not fertile soil – vice versa. Our findings confirmed that
land use could be important factor for the estimation of soil organic carbon stocks in different soil groups.
Biography
Povilas Zemaitis is a researcher in Institute of Forestry, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Department of Ecology. He has completed PhD
studies in 2014. In his PhD thesis he was focused on climate change impact on Norway spruce health and vulnerability.Now his research interest is forest ecology,
forest health, climate change impact on forest ecosystems. Currently he is working on carbon stocks assessment in forest and non-forest land in soil; the impact
of afforestation on soil organic carbon stock.
Povilas Zemaitis et al., J Earth Sci Clim Change 2016, 7:9(Suppl)