DISCUSSION
Chronosequence-based approaches are useful ways of addressing rates and direction of changes in various pedologic characteristics including SOC dynamics (Brentley, 2008). Mine soils included in the present study were characterized by similar mining and post-reclamation land management history, climatic conditions, bedrock geology, and topographic characteristics and differed only by their respective times since reclamation. Temporal changes in carbon pools along the chronosequence under Azadirachta indica, Dalbergia sissoo, and Gmelina arborea were studied under this experiment.