Carbon and nutrient pools of forest floor in native forest and monoculture plantations in subtropical China
格氏栲天然林与人工林枯枝落叶层碳库及养分库

In the last decades, large-scale native forests have been converted to fast-growing and high yield commercial forest plantations to meet the demands for timber, fuel material, and other forest products. Some silvicultural measures, such as planting pure stands, clear cutting and slash burning, are widely applied during this conversion. Yield decline and land deterioration in such disturbed ecosystem has become serious. In this context, the ecological comparisons between native forests and monoculture planta...