Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

Wiesmeier, Martin; Urbanski, Livia; Hobley, Eleanor; Lang, Birgit; Lützow, Margit von; Marín-Spiotta, E.; Wesemael, Bas van; Rabot, Éva; Ließ, Mareike; García-Franco, Noelia; Wollschläger, Ute; Vogel, Hans‐Jörg; Kögel‐Knabner, Ingrid

doi:10.1016/j.geoderma.2018.07.026

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“…From the perspective of carbon sequestration, native vegetation would be most effective as it was able to preserve most of the carbon belowground. Studies at the regional scale confirmed that vegetation type affected SOC stock by controlling both the input and decomposition of carbon (Wiesmeier et al 2019). The decrease in organic carbon inputs in the soil can reduce the microbial respiration (Cardoso et al 2013, Trivedi et al 2016), and the biological activity was modulated through soil organic matter, which quantity and quality of decided the mineralization rate of organic matter (Trivedi et al 2016, Malik et al 2018).…”

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“…Cotton (ECO) and purple alfalfa (LAL), on the other hand, would be least effective due to the fact that the carbon stocks of these two land uses were relatively small and only a small proportion of carbon was allocated to belowground pools. Because of crop and green fodder, the aboveground biomass was removed completely, which reduced plant inputs into the soil (Zhou et al 2007) and reduced soil macro‐aggregate formation (Wiesmeier et al 2019). Particularly, the annual cotton was distinguished from other perennial plants, the long‐term tillage led to soil erosion, reduced the stabilization of SOM due to deteriorated aggregation, and accelerated the subsequent mineralization (Balesdent et al 2000, Hamza and Anderson 2005).…”

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Ecosystem‐scale carbon allocation among different land uses: implications for carbon stocks in the Yellow River Delta

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Ecosphere

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The reclamation area of the Chinese Yellow River Delta (YRD) has experienced frequent land use changes in recent decades. The consequence of such land use changes on the stocks and allocation of ecosystem-scale carbon is not known. Here, we assessed carbon stocks and allocation of four representative land uses in the YRD area: (1) purple alfalfa (LAL), (2) reed and Aeluropus littoralis (RAE), (3) cotton (ECO), and (4) Chinese tamarisk (CTA). The results showed that the overall carbon stocks, and carbon stocks of aboveground, litter, roots, and soil were notably different among different land uses. The native CTA land had the largest overall carbon stock (belowground and aboveground) and had the strongest potential to allocate the carbon to the soil carbon pool (95.72%), followed by the natural grassland (RAE). Alfalfa grassland (LAL) also had a large carbon stock due to its large aboveground biomass, litter, and roots, but the relative allocation proportion of soil carbon stock was lower than that of the other land uses examined. Cotton (ECO) had the lowest soil carbon and total carbon stocks among four land uses. In combining our data on the carbon pool with changes of land use in the YRD area, we argued that land reclamation in the YRD area was likely to turn this area from a carbon sink to carbon source with the release of soil organic carbon. Therefore, cautions should be taken to reduce carbon release, if the reclaimed land be used to plant crops.

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Ecosystem‐scale carbon allocation among different land uses: implications for carbon stocks in the Yellow River Delta

Jiao

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Ecosphere

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“…More information at https://www.isric.org/index.php/projects/global-assessment-humaninduced-soil-degradation-glasod to which soil degradation occurred on 36% of the surface used by the human population on the planet. The degradation generally means a reduction in the natural ability of soil to perform its roles in the ecosystem (Gomiero 2016;Kanianska 2016, Wiesmeier et al 2019. The potential source of pollution is shown in Figure 4, while soil degradation/damage modes are shown in (Pereira et al 2018).…”

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Kisić

2020

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Sustainable soil management is imperative for agriculture development in any area of the planet Earth so that future generations can enjoy the benefits Earth provides, which is the production of sufficient quantities of healthy food on the soils with preserved natural fertility. Awareness of the need for sustainable development is already present to a certain degree. Therefore, it is necessary to use all of the scientific and professional potential to create appropriate research programs and the implementation of those results in practice.

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“…As has previously been shown, the ecological infrastructure (EI), in which soil functions are included, underlies and drives the delivering of ecosystem services. Therefore, soil, as an important part of the EI, plays a key role, and SOC represents one of the most important natural capital stocks of soils [15,54]. Consequently, soil functions and SOC were included in the assessment.…”

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A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

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Song

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In 1955, after the Korean War, only 35% of the national land area in South Korea was covered by forests. In the 1960s, the Korean Government implemented the national forestation program in order to increase the extent of the forest surface and thereby counteract the negative ecological consequences from deforestation, such as erosion and ground instability. According to previous studies, this led to an increase in carbon (C) accumulated in the forest biomass of 1.48 Gt CO 2 (0.40 Gt C) in the period 1954-2012. However, these studies did not take into account the amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) that was accumulated during that period and the influence of management practices on soil ecosystem services. Currently, South Korean authorities are considering the idea of implementing some forest management practices in order to increase timber extraction (e.g., by reducing the cutting age of the trees or by applying thinning and tending measures). In this study, we assess the influence of these management regimes on SOC dynamics and propose a theoretical framework to assess the influence of forest management practices on three ecosystem services, namely, C sequestration, water supply, and biomass production, while considering soil functioning, and especially SOC, as a group of supporting services underpinning the three named ecosystem services. We find that, in terms of SOC sequestration, reducing the cutting age from 80 to 40 years would be suitable only in the case of high biomass production forests, whereas in the case of lower biomass production forests reducing the cutting age would achieve very low SOC levels. However, we propose that increasing tree species diversity, even though it would not lead to a direct increase in the SOC content, could help to lessen the negative effects of reducing the cutting age by improving other soil properties, which in turn positively affect soil functioning (e.g., soil biodiversity, nutrient availability) and the resilience of the forest ecosystem. Finally, we discuss potential policy approaches to incentivize sustainable management practices in South Korean forests from a soil protection perspective.

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Soil organic carbon storage as a key function of soils - A review of drivers and indicators at various scales

Cited by 1,169 publications

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Ecosystem‐scale carbon allocation among different land uses: implications for carbon stocks in the Yellow River Delta

Ecosystem‐scale carbon allocation among different land uses: implications for carbon stocks in the Yellow River Delta

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A Holistic View of Soils in Delivering Ecosystem Services in Forests: A Case Study in South Korea

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