Figure 1.
Study area and distribution of soil profile sites.
Table 1.
Methods used to estimate SOC (soil organic carbon) stocks in Zhejiang Province, China.
Figure 2.
The estimates of SOC (soil organic carbon) stocks for soil classification levels up-scaling from Soil Species to Soil Group using the mean, median, SPS (soil profile statistic), and PKB (pedological professional knowledge based) methods.
Table 2.
Descriptive statistics of profile soil organic carbon densities by Soil Group.
Table 3.
Estimates of SOC (soil organic carbon) stocks and SOC density values of various Soil Groups using the mean, median, SPS (soil profile statistic), and PKB (pedological professional knowledge based) methods.
Figure 3.
Estimated SOC stocks at different soil depths using the mean, median, SPS (soil profile statistic), and PKB (pedological professional knowledge based) methods.
Figure 4.
Spatial differences of estimated SOC (soil organic carbon) densities between the mean and PKB (pedological professional knowledge based) methods (A), and between the median and PKB methods (B).