Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an important indicator to measure the land desertification. Yulin city is taken as a case to study the SOC dynamics of desertification rebuilding area in a local scale. The data source based on the second soil survey in year of 1982 and repeated soil sampling in year of 2003
and the methods for sampling
determining and analyzing of SOC are auger hole method
K_2Cr_2O_7 oxidation method
area-weigh method respectively
and micro-pipette method is used to determine soil texture. The main conclusions are as follows: SOC content is much correlative to soil texture
it is negative correlation to coarse silt(R=-0.50
a=(0.01)) and positive correlation to clay(R=-0.45
a=0.05); The content
density and storage of SOC in original profile
1 m depth and arable layer increase greatly during the 20 years
among which the arable layer is most remarkable result in direct and indirect mankind activities; The content
density and storage of arable layer SOC are increased by 0.55 g/kg
0.15 kg/m~2
10.07GgC respectively
which representing rate of increase of 21.00%
(33.02)%
33.02% correspondingly. The results show that tree and grass planting
return plantation to woodland or pasture
sustainable agricultural managements and other countermeasures will promote desertification reverse significantly
which will helpful to increase the amount of SOC and carbon sequestration in desertification area.