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The response of TN storage to specific LUCCs sampled at different depths
exhibited similar pattern. The shallow sampling led to a higher loss
efficiency of TN and TN storage loss efficiency gradually decreased with
deeper sampling. TN loss efficiencys were 43.5%, 42.3%, 38.1%, 34.3%
and 33.6%, respectively for the 0-20, 0-30, 0-40, 0-60 and 0-100 cm
profiles. Land restoration increased the SOC and TN storages, and these
gains occurred in these selected five sampling depths. Specifically, the
gained SOC storage was 49.2% in the 0-20 cm soil layer, while the
increased SOC was 10.5%, 19.7% and 20.9%
respectively,
in the 0-30, 0-40 and 0-60 cm profiles and the revered SOC lost was
observed in the 0-100 cm profile. Thus, sampling depth significantly
influenced the SOC and TN storages in response to LUCC.