Table 1.
Soil characteristics and management practices of different land uses.
Table 2.
Fine soil stock (FSS), total carbon (TC), soil inorganic carbon (SIC) and total organic carbon (TOC) in different land use types (0–45 cm soil depth) of Mizoram.
Table 3.
Soil organic carbon concentration (%) of varying lability at different soil depth classes in different land use types of Mizoram.
Fig 1.
Distribution of active and passive soil carbon at three soil depths in different land use systems.
Table 4.
Soil organic carbon concentration (%) of varying lability at in different land use types (0–45 cm soil depth) of Mizoram.
Table 5.
Correlation coefficient (Pearson’s) between different organic carbon pools in soils (0–45 cm soil depth) under different land use types in Mizoram.
Fig 2.
Distribution of soil organic carbon fractions of different lability (% of total organic carbon) in different land use types (0–45 cm soil depth) in Mizoram.
(Letters a, b, c describe whether the proportions of different carbon fractions are significantly different or not, where proportions with same letters indicate no significance (p<0.05), within and across the land use types under study).
Fig 3.
Soil organic carbon stock (Mg C ha-1) at different soil depth in different land use types in Mizoram.
Fig 4.
Total organic carbon stock (Mg C ha-1) in different land use types (0–45 cm soil depth) in Mizoram.
Fig 5.
Litter inputs in different land use systems.
(Different letters a, b, c indicate significant difference (p<0.05) between the different land use types under study).