What Influence Does Conventional Tillage Have on the Ability of Soils to Sequester Carbon, Stabilise It and Become Saturated in the Medium Term? A Case Study in a Traditional Rainfed Olive Grove
| Autor: | Manuel González-Rosado, Jesús Aguilera, Beatríz Lozano García, Luis Parras-Alcántara |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Renewable Energy
Sustainability and the Environment Soil mineral fraction Geography Planning and Development Landmanagement Climate change Building and Construction Management Monitoring Policy and Law Particle size distribution Soil degradation Soil C saturation soil degradation particle size distribution soil C saturation climate change land management soil mineral fraction |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability; Volume 14; Issue 12; Pages: 7097 Sustainability 14(12), 7097 (2022) Helvia. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Córdoba instname |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su14127097 |
| Popis: | Soils have the capacity to store three times more carbon (C) than the atmosphere. This fact has focused scientific and governmental attention because it is one way to mitigate climate change. However, there comes a time when the capacity of soils to store C reaches a limit, considering soil organic carbon (SOC) saturation. In the Mediterranean area, agricultural soils are traditionally exposed to conventional tillage (CT), causing soil properties and quality degradation. Therefore, this study aimed to determine whether CT modifies the carbon storage capacity (carbon saturation), linked to soil mineral fractions 2000 µm) of 38.6% in the Bw horizon; however, in the small macro-aggregates (2000–250 µm), an increase in SOC concentration over time, of 33.5%, was observed in the Ap and Bw horizons. This increasing trend continued in the fine soil fractions. Concerning SOC bound to the fine mineral fraction ( |
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