Optimizing carbon sequestration in croplands: A synthesis

A Tiefenbacher, T Sandén, HP Haslmayr, J Miloczki… - Agronomy, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Climate change and ensuring food security for an exponentially growing global human
population are the greatest challenges for future agriculture. Improved soil management …

Pyrogenic carbon capture and storage

HP Schmidt, A Anca‐Couce, N Hagemann… - Gcb …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
The growth of biomass is considered the most efficient method currently available to extract
carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. However, biomass carbon is easily degraded by …

Fine silt and clay content is the main factor defining maximal C and N accumulations in soils: a meta-analysis

FJ Matus - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
When studying carbon (C) sequestration in soil, it is necessary to recognize the maximal
storage potential and the main influencing factors, including the climate, land use, and soil …

The 4 per 1000 goal and soil carbon storage under agroforestry and conservation agriculture systems in sub-Saharan Africa

M Corbeels, R Cardinael, K Naudin, H Guibert… - Soil and Tillage …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
The 4‰ initiative launched by the French government at COP21 in Paris in December 2015
aspires to increase global soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks at a rate of 0.4% per year. We …

Current controversies on mechanisms controlling soil carbon storage: implications for interactions with practitioners and policy-makers. A review

D Derrien, P Barré, I Basile-Doelsch, L Cécillon… - Agronomy for …, 2023‏ - Springer
There is currently an intense debate about the potential for additional organic carbon
storage in soil, the strategies by which it may be accomplished and what the actual benefits …

[HTML][HTML] A proposal for the assessment of soil security: Soil functions, soil services and threats to soil

SJ Evangelista, DJ Field, AB McBratney, B Minasny… - Soil Security, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Human societies face six existential challenges to their sustainable development. These
challenges have been previously addressed by a myriad of concepts such as soil …

Soil carbon stocks under different land uses and the applicability of the soil carbon saturation concept

S Chen, D Arrouays, DA Angers, MP Martin… - Soil and Tillage …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Increasing soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks via land management has been proposed as a
temporary climate change mitigation measure. An upper limit of soil stable SOC storage …

[HTML][HTML] Soil organic carbon saturation in cropland-grassland systems: Storage potential and soil quality

T Guillaume, D Makowski, Z Libohova, L Bragazza… - Geoderma, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Reliable estimations of soil organic carbon (SOC) deficits in agroecosystems are crucial in
evaluating the atmospheric C sequestration potential of agricultural soils and supporting …

Fine resolution map of top-and subsoil carbon sequestration potential in France

S Chen, MP Martin, NPA Saby, C Walter… - Science of the Total …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Although soils have a high potential to offset CO 2 emissions through its conversion into soil
organic carbon (SOC) with long turnover time, it is widely accepted that there is an upper …

[HTML][HTML] On-farm soil organic carbon sequestration potentials are dominated by site effects, not by management practices

C Rosinger, K Keiblinger, M Bieber, LG Bernardini… - Geoderma, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Although conservation agriculture practices evidently facilitate the build-up of soil organic
carbon (SOC), the sequestration potential of arable soils is strongly mediated by edaphic …