Beech site Sch: Soil organic matter data										


Nutrient pools - organically bound										
remarks:	no data available									


Organic carbon and organic nitrogen pools (using incubation method)										
remarks:	Data from T. Persson (2000b); method: T Persson et al (2000). Sampling date 26 & 27 April 1995									

	%org C		%orgN		C:N		C [ton ha-1]		N [ton ha-1]	
Soil layer	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev	mean	stdev
L	47.25	1.74	1.96	0.09	24.1	0.5	7.0	1.0	0.29	0.04
FH	43.07	4.59	2.19	0.19	19.7	1.0	28.9	6.8	1.47	0.32
0-10	15.54	6.13	0.76	0.25	20.3	1.3	63.7	10.7	3.13	0.35
10-20	7.22	0.34	0.34	0.04	21.6	1.3	33.0	6.6	1.52	0.23
20-30	6.26	0.85	0.28	0.05	22.6	1.8	31.1	4.8	1.38	0.20


Organic carbon and organic nitrogen pools (using 14C technique)										
remarks:	data from Harrison (2000); method: Harrison et al. (2000)									
		 								
Soil layer	%C	%N  	Soil mass	Bulk density	Total C	Total N				
			[t ha-1]	[kg l-1]	[ton C ha-1]	[ton N ha-1]				
LF 	45.78	1.79	17.72	0.08	8.11	0.32				
0-5cm 	28.33	1.39	103.98	0.21	29.46	1.45				
5-10cm 	11.70	0.59	218.81	0.48	25.60	1.28				
10-20cm 	8.54	0.38	323.79	0.46	27.65	1.22				
