Fig. 3 Correlations between potentially mineralizable carbon pool (C0) and semidecomposition time (t1/2) estimated by the exponential and hyperbolic kinetic models. t1/2 for the exponential model was estimated as: 0.693/exponential k. Depths: • 0–5 cm, {circ} 5–10 cm, § 10–15 cm, {square} 15–20 cm