摘要：Restoration of degraded subtropical thicket in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, can result in the return of more than 30 tonnes of soil organic carbon per hectare. 1,2 Given that soil carbon is usually positively correlated with soil water-holding capacity 3-5 , we hypothesised that restoration of thicket would greatly increase the sponge effect of its soils. As a first step towards examining this hypothesis, we used a model that predicts how changes in soil texture and soil carbon affect soil water-holding capacity.
