Effects of adjacent land-use types on the distribution of soil organic carbon stocks in the montane area of central Taiwan

Botanical Studies

Table 3 SOC stocks (Mg C ha⁻¹) in different land-use types

	Tea plantation (Mg C ha⁻¹)	Bamboo forest (Mg C ha⁻¹)	Japanese cedar forest (Mg C ha⁻¹)	Taiwania forest (Mg C ha⁻¹)
Depth (cm)
0–5	33.6 (9.7)^a	21.2 (5.70)	58.4 (15)	55.3 (11.5)
5–10	18.3 (3.0)	20.9 (3.74)	25.1 (3.0)	42.1 (14.3)
10–30	29.3 (6.6)	37.4 (8.96)	43.4 (8.0)	40.1 (9.1)
30–50	20.6 (4.4)	21.0 (5.6)	21.6 (6.9)	14.3 (2.6)
Total (0–50)	101.8 (15)	100.5 (17)	148.5 (28)	151.8 (19)
ANOVA for significance of
Land-use type		JC = TW > TP = BM***
Depth (cm)		0–5 = 10–30 > 5–10 > 30–50***

TP tea plantation, BM Bamboo forest, JC Japanese Cedar forest, TW Taiwania forest
*** p < 0.001
^aValues in the parentheses are stand errors (n = 3)