Soil Chemistry Underpins the Legacy of Charcoal Hearths: Exploring Potential Basis for Educational Materials

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0316" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0316</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0316" target="_blank" >10.11118/978-80-7509-831-3-0316</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Soil Chemistry Underpins the Legacy of Charcoal Hearths: Exploring Potential Basis for Educational Materials

Original language description

Charcoal production hearths are significant cultural landscape features and convey profound anthropogenic effects on soil properties. Whereas pyrolysis causes irreversible changes in the wood chemical structure, charcoal production residues alter underlying soil environment (stratigraphy and chemical composition). The most substantial changes consist in increased stable forms of organic carbon concentrations, which gain unique nutrient properties (nitrogen content augmentation to the detriment of metals bound in ashes and mineral soil) over centuries. This contribution compares the elemental composition (C, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S and Fe) of relict hearth layers and their total stocks to neighbouring forest soil. The hearth soil layers were predominately C and N enriched while depleted of Ca, Mg, P and Fe. Total hearth carbon stock exceeded that of forest soil more than twice. Total sulphur content, however lower in upper soil layers, was also higher in the hearths. Hearths can be perceived as meaningful hotspots of long-term carbon storage. The heritage of charcoal production in forestry should be well communicated to public because of (1) high number and density of hearths in Central European landscape, as well as (2) their ecosystem stability protection and stable carbon sequestration potentials.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40104 - Soil science

Project

<a href="/en/project/DG20P02OVV017" target="_blank" >DG20P02OVV017: Mapping the cultural heritage of human activities in forests</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Public recreation and landscape protection – with environment hand in hand…: Conference proceedings

ISBN

978-80-7509-830-6

ISSN

2336-6311

e-ISSN

2336-632X

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

316-321

Publisher name

Mendelova univerzita v Brně

Place of publication

Brno

Event location

Křtiny

Event date

May 9, 2022

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

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