Agricultural Soil Carbon Management Considering Water Environment

Identifying soil organic carbon fractions sensitive to agricultural management practices

Agricultural management explains historic changes in regional soil carbon stocks.

Agriculture is considered to be among the economic sectors having the greatest greenhouse gas mitigation potential, largely via soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration. However, it remains a challenge to accurately quantify SOC stock changes at regional to national scales. SOC stock changes resulting from SOC inventory systems are only available for a few countries and the trends vary widely be...

Agricultural Management and Soil Carbon Storage in Surface vs . Deep Layers Soil

SSSAJ: Volume 75: Number 1 • January–February 2011 Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 75:92–101 Posted online 17 Nov. 2010 doi:10.2136/sssaj2009.0414 Received 9 Nov. 2009. *Corresponding author ([email protected]). © Soil Science Society of America, 5585 Guilford Rd., Madison WI 53711 USA All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic ...

A review on soil carbon accumulation due to the management change of major Brazilian agricultural activities.

Agricultural areas deal with enormous CO2 intake fluxes offering an opportunity for greenhouse effect mitigation. In this work we studied the potential of soil carbon sequestration due to the management conversion in major agricultural activities in Brazil. Data from several studies indicate that in soybean/maize, and related rotation systems, a significant soil carbon sequestration was observe...

What are the effects of agricultural management on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks?

Background: Changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks significantly influence the atmospheric C concentration. Agricultural management practices that increase SOC stocks thus may have profound effects on climate mitigation. Additional benefits include higher soil fertility since increased SOC stocks improve the physical and biological properties of the soil. Intensification of agriculture and...