The GEFSOC soil carbon modelling system: A tool for conducting regional-scale soil carbon inventories and assessing the impacts of land use change on soil carbon

A spatially explicit scheme for tracking and validating annual landscape scale changes in soil carbon

“…Without them, the influence of land management and LC change on SOC at both plot and larger spatial scales cannot be satisfactorily tracked or assessed (Nieder & Richter, 2000;Walter, Rossel, & McBratney, 2003). In recent years, considerable progress has been made in assessing the impact of LC on SOC at large spatial scales (Bondeau et al, 2007;Easter et al, 2007;Sohl et al, 2012). However, the impact of transitions in 'LC, management and erosion' on SOC at smaller spatio-temporal scales have not been studied, which leaves a major gap in the current modeling based SOC research.…”

Spatially explicit simulations of soil C dynamics in Southern Brazil: Integrating century and GIS with i_Century

“…Field sampling, modeling and geoprocessing are key components to refine estimates of regional C inventories. Comprehensive systems such as the GEFSOC Modeling System have been recently developed and tested under a wide variety of environments Easter et al, 2007). In these approaches, it must be considered that scale-dependent factors determine regional SOC stocks: climate and geology dominate at coarser scales, while land use and soil management dominate at finer scales (Schulp and Veldkamp, 2008).…”

Application of RothC model to predict soil organic carbon stock on agricultural soils of Slovakia

“…In a majority of cases, this model was tested on long-term experimental sites with detailed descriptions of the sites conditions and treatments Smith et al 1997;Barančíková 2007;Ludwig et al 2007). The CeNTUrY and rothC models are applied to the prediction of soil organic carbon stock on regional and national scales (Falloon et al 1998Falloon & Smith 2003;Smith et al 2005Smith et al , 2007van Wesemael et al 2005;easter et al 2007).…”