Can Animal Manure Be Used to Increase Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Mediterranean as a Mitigation Climate Change Strategy?
| Autor: | Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú, Andreas Kamilaris, Felicidad de Herralde, Robert Savé, Immaculada Funes Mesa |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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2. Zero hunger
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences Land use business.industry Climate change 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences Soil carbon Agricultural engineering 15. Life on land engineering.material 01 natural sciences Manure 13. Climate action Agriculture Soil functions Soil water 040103 agronomy & agriculture engineering 0401 agriculture forestry and fisheries Environmental science Fertilizer business 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Progress in IS ISBN: 9783030619688 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_16 |
| Popis: | Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays an important role on improving soil conditions and soil functions. Increasing land use changes have induced an important decline of SOC content at global scale. Increasing SOC in agricultural soils has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate climate change. Animal manure has the characteristic of enriching SOC, when applied to crop fields, while, in parallel, it could constitute a natural fertilizer for the crops. In this paper, a simulation is performed using the area of Catalonia, Spain as a case study for the characteristic low SOC in the Mediterranean, to examine whether animal manure can improve substantially the SOC of agricultural fields, when applied as organic fertilizers. Our results show that the policy goals of the 4 × 1000 strategy can be achieved only partially by using manure transported to the fields. This implies that the proposed approach needs to be combined with other strategies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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