Abstract
Physical properties of mineral top soil were investigated on and outside 6 and 13 year old tractor tracks (and outside tractor tracks) on Haplic Acrisol (Ultisol) under selectively logged forest, secondary forest after forest fire and plantation forest. The analysis of possible rehabilitation to pre disturbance soil properties also included earlier published data for new tractor tracks and control forest in the same experimental area. Dry bulk density (DBD), loss on ignition (LOI) and steady state infiltrability (SSI), as well as visual descriptions of vegetation, top soil and erosion, were recorded for 3 positions in slopes as well as for 3 degrees of tractor disturbance to try to resolve the process of top soil rehabilitation.
13 year old tracks under secondary forest grouped significantly together with controls for DBD and LOI, in contrast to nearby 13 year old ones under the canopy of selectively logged forest. Differences in amount and quality of litterfall are discussed to explain this difference. For SSI there was a significant increasing gradient from new to older tracks, but no tracks were as high as control.
From these and other data, it may be argued that DBD decreases and possibly total porosity increases over time with increasing organic content (LOI). Soil permeability is rehabilitated more slowly than DBD and total porosity, as macro porosity is further developed in a later stage with further increased organic content. This later development of macroporosity may also be attributed to changes in the quality of organic material as DBD may not be further lowered.
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Malmer, A., Johansson, E., Kluge, M. (1998). Natural rehabilitation of disturbed tropical rainforest soils in Sabah, Malaysia. In: Schulte, A., Ruhiyat, D. (eds) Soils of Tropical Forest Ecosystems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03649-5_23
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