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DOI 10.3390/agronomy12051231
Lizenz creative commons licence
Titel (primär) Novel methodology for the assessment of organic carbon stocks in German arable soils
Autor Franko, U.; Ruehlmann, J.
Quelle Agronomy
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
Department BOSYS
Band/Volume 12
Heft 5
Seite von art. 1231
Sprache englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Keywords soil organic matter; humus balance; carbon flux; turnover activity; modeling; long-term field experiments; German Agricultural Soil Inventory
Abstract There is currently a significant focus on oil organic carbon, as interest in mitigating climate change by increasing soil carbon stocks is leading to efforts to include this within carbon farming and the trade of CO2 certificates. In addition, soil organic carbon controls many other soil functions, such as soil productivity. However, results from long-term field experiments suggest that an ever-increasing carbon content in soil, at some point, will no longer increase productivity, but will cause environmental risks, especially from excess nitrogen. In Germany, the most widely recognized soil organic matter (SOM) balance method, VDLUFA (Association of German Agricultural Investigation and Research Institutions), addresses soil management only, without a relation to the soil carbon stock. To close this gap, a methodology is developed based on results from European long-term field experiments that allows for an assessment of agricultural management both in terms of the carbon input to soil and the amount of carbon stored in soil. Due to the transformation of carbon stock into carbon flux, it is possible to apply the classification scheme of the VDLUFA balance to the carbon content of topsoils. This provides information to qualify further decisions about fostering carbon accumulation. This was demonstrated on experimental results from Bad Lauchstädt, as well as on data from the German Agricultural Soil Inventory (BZE-LW) for arable soils on a regional scale.
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Franko, U., Ruehlmann, J. (2022):
Novel methodology for the assessment of organic carbon stocks in German arable soils
Agronomy-Basel 12 (5), art. 1231 10.3390/agronomy12051231