A Review of the Effect of Climate and Soil Evolution on Soil Organic Carbon Storage Resources in Central Alborz

Changes of soil carbon is one of the most important indicators showing the climate impacts on the soil genesis. Soil organic carbon management requires knowledge of its amount and the effective factors. In the current study, the distribution of soil properties especially soil organic carbon were studied in 76 soil profiles consist of different climatic zones arid (Alborz province), semi-arid (Alborz and Qazvin province) and semi-humid (Guilan and Mazandaran province) and humid (Mazandaran province) with aridic, xeric and udic moisture regimes and thermic and mesic temperature regimes. Changes in climatic parameters cause changes in species diversity in the ecosystem and ultimately effect on various forms of carbon, especially soil organic carbon. One of the most important climatic factors in this study is the temperature that increasing the soil temperature in arid and semi-arid regions compared to the two wetter regions causes intensification of mineralization and as a result, soil organic carbon is reduced. The results showed that the amount of organic carbon in the studied soil decreases with increasing depth and the average amount of organic carbon in Mollisols was higher than Alfisols= Inceptisols > Entisols > Aridisols. The general results of this study showed that increasing the parameters of soil electrical conductivity (salinity), soil acidity and clay content have a negative effect, while increasing the parameters of cation exchange capacity and silt content have positive effects on soil organic carbon content.