National-scale estimation of changes in soil carbon stocks on agricultural lands

2002 ◽  
Vol 116 (3) ◽  
pp. 431-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlen D Eve ◽  
Mark Sperow ◽  
Keith Paustian ◽  
Ronald F Follett
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Janes-Bassett ◽  
Jessica Davies ◽  
Richard Bassett ◽  
Dmitry Yumashev ◽  
Ed Rowe ◽  
...  

<p>Throughout the Anthropocene, the conversion of land to agriculture and atmospheric deposition of nitrogen have resulted in significant changes to biogeochemical cycling, including soil carbon stocks. Quantifying these changes is complex due to a number of influential factors (including climate, land use management, soil type) and their interactions. As the largest terrestrial store of carbon, soils are a key component in climate regulation. In addition, soil carbon storage contributes to numerous ecosystem services including food provision. It is therefore imperative that we understand changes to soil carbon stocks, and provide effective strategies for their future management.</p><p>Modelling soil systems provides a means to estimate changes to soil carbon stocks. Due to linkages between the carbon cycle and other major nutrient cycles (notably nitrogen and phosphorus which often limit the productivity of ecosystems), models of integrated nutrient cycling are required to understand the response of the carbon cycle to global pressures. Simulating the impacts of land use changes requires capacity to model both semi-natural and intensive agricultural systems.</p><p>In this study, we have developed an integrated carbon-nitrogen-phosphorus model of semi-natural systems to include representation of both arable and grassland systems, and a range of agricultural management practices. The model is applicable to large spatial scales, as it uses readily available input data and does not require site-specific calibration.  After being validated both spatially and temporally using data from long-term experimental sites across Northern-Europe, the model was applied at a national scale throughout the United Kingdom to assess the impacts of land use change and management practices during the last two centuries. Results indicate a decrease in soil carbon in areas of agricultural expansion, yet in areas of semi-natural land use, atmospheric deposition of nitrogen has resulted in increased net primary productivity and subsequently soil carbon. The results demonstrate anthropogenic impacts on long-term nutrient cycling and soil carbon storage, and the importance of integrated nutrient cycling within models.</p>


2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 1188-1196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Manning ◽  
Franciska T. de Vries ◽  
Jerry R. B. Tallowin ◽  
Roger Smith ◽  
Simon R. Mortimer ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-69
Author(s):  
M Forouzangohar ◽  
R Setia ◽  
DD Wallace ◽  
CR Nitschke ◽  
LT Bennett

2021 ◽  
Vol 446 ◽  
pp. 109500
Author(s):  
Gaurav Mishra ◽  
Avishek Sarkar ◽  
Krishna Giri ◽  
Arun Jyoti Nath ◽  
Rattan Lal ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 158 ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Martin Gauder ◽  
Norbert Billen ◽  
Sabine Zikeli ◽  
Moritz Laub ◽  
Simone Graeff-Hönninger ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 177 ◽  
pp. 97-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émilie Maillard ◽  
Brian G. McConkey ◽  
Mervin St. Luce ◽  
Denis A. Angers ◽  
Jianling Fan

SOIL ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sanderman ◽  
Courtney Creamer ◽  
W. Troy Baisden ◽  
Mark Farrell ◽  
Stewart Fallon

Abstract. Devising agricultural management schemes that enhance food security and soil carbon levels is a high priority for many nations. However, the coupling between agricultural productivity, soil carbon stocks and organic matter turnover rates is still unclear. Archived soil samples from four decades of a long-term crop rotation trial were analyzed for soil organic matter (SOM) cycling-relevant properties: C and N content, bulk composition by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, amino sugar content, short-term C bioavailability assays, and long-term C turnover rates by modeling the incorporation of the bomb spike in atmospheric 14C into the soil. After > 40 years under consistent management, topsoil carbon stocks ranged from 14 to 33 Mg C ha−1 and were linearly related to the mean productivity of each treatment. Measurements of SOM composition demonstrated increasing amounts of plant- and microbially derived SOM along the productivity gradient. Under two modeling scenarios, radiocarbon data indicated overall SOM turnover time decreased from 40 to 13 years with increasing productivity – twice the rate of decline predicted from simple steady-state models or static three-pool decay rates of measured C pool distributions. Similarly, the half-life of synthetic root exudates decreased from 30.4 to 21.5 h with increasing productivity, indicating accelerated microbial activity. These findings suggest that there is a direct feedback between accelerated biological activity, carbon cycling rates and rates of carbon stabilization with important implications for how SOM dynamics are represented in models.


2018 ◽  
pp. 301-322 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tarik Mitran ◽  
Rattan Lal ◽  
Umakant Mishra ◽  
Ram Swaroop Meena ◽  
T. Ravisankar ◽  
...  

2012 ◽  
Vol 72 (3 suppl) ◽  
pp. 673-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
VD Pillar ◽  
CG Tornquist ◽  
C Bayer

The southern Brazilian grassland biome contains highly diverse natural ecosystems that have been used for centuries for grazing livestock and that also provide other important environmental services. Here we outline the main factors controlling ecosystem processes, review and discuss the available data on soil carbon stocks and greenhouse gases emissions from soils, and suggest opportunities for mitigation of climatic change. The research on carbon and greenhouse gases emissions in these ecosystems is recent and the results are still fragmented. The available data indicate that the southern Brazilian natural grassland ecosystems under adequate management contain important stocks of organic carbon in the soil, and therefore their conservation is relevant for the mitigation of climate change. Furthermore, these ecosystems show a great and rapid loss of soil organic carbon when converted to crops based on conventional tillage practices. However, in the already converted areas there is potential to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions by using cropping systems based on no soil tillage and cover-crops, and the effect is mainly related to the potential of these crop systems to accumulate soil organic carbon in the soil at rates that surpass the increased soil nitrous oxide emissions. Further modelling with these results associated with geographic information systems could generate regional estimates of carbon balance.


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