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Changes in soil organic carbon and climate change – Application of the RothC model in agro-silvo-pastoral Mediterranean systems
Rosa Francaviglia,Kevin Coleman,Andrew P. Whitmore,Luca Doro,G. R. Urracci,Mariateresa Rubino,Luigi Ledda +6 more
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In this article, the authors used the Rothamsted carbon model (RothC) to predict changes in soil organic carbon under different land uses and the different climate that may occur in the future.About:
This article is published in Agricultural Systems.The article was published on 2012-10-01. It has received 75 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soil carbon & Land use, land-use change and forestry.read more
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Managing soil carbon for climate change mitigation and adaptation in Mediterranean cropping systems: A meta-analysis
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared Mediterranean croplands with a number of recommended management practices (RMPs) with neighboring conventional plots under Mediterranean climate and found that the highest response was achieved by those practices applying largest amounts of C inputs (land treatment and organic amendments).
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Agroforestry: a sustainable environmental practice for carbon sequestration under the climate change scenarios—a review
Farhat Abbas,Hafiz Mohkum Hammad,Shah Fahad,Artemi Cerdà,Muhammad Rizwan,Wajid Farhad,Sana Ehsan,Hafiz Faiq Bakhat +7 more
TL;DR: This review presents agroforestry potential to counter the increasing concentration of atmospheric CO2 by sequestering it in above- and belowground biomass.
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Soil bacterial community response to differences in agricultural management along with seasonal changes in a Mediterranean region
Annamaria Bevivino,Patrizia Paganin,Giovanni Bacci,Alessandro Florio,Maite Sampedro Pellicer,Maria Cristiana Papaleo,Alessio Mengoni,Luigi Ledda,Renato Fani,Anna Benedetti,Claudia Dalmastri +10 more
TL;DR: Soil bacterial communities were seasonally distinct and exhibited compositional shifts that tracked with changes in land use and soil management, which may contribute to future searches for bacterial bio-indicators of soil health and sustainable productivity.
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Agroecology for adaptation to climate change and resource depletion in the Mediterranean region. A review
Eduardo Aguilera,Eduardo Aguilera,Cipriano Díaz-Gaona,Raquel García-Laureano,Carolina Reyes-Palomo,Gloria I. Guzmán,Livia Ortolani,Manuel Sánchez-Rodríguez,Vicente Rodríguez-Estévez +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, three types of complementary adaptation strategies for crop production are identified: (i) Biodiversity management to spread out risks and reduce pest damage; (ii) Increasing soil organic matter, e.g. with cover crops or crop varieties with higher residue and root production; (iii) Reducing fossil fuel dependence by avoiding synthetic chemicals, increasing efficiency and using renewable energy.
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Climate change impacts on soil organic carbon stocks of Mediterranean agricultural areas: A case study in Northern Egypt
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied the CarboSOIL model and global climate models to predict and analyse the effects of short- (2030), medium- and long-term (2100) climate changes on organic C contents at standard soil depths (0−25, 25−50 and 50−75 cm) in a Mediterranean arid area (El Fayoum, Northern Egypt) for different land use types.
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Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture
Pete Smith,Daniel Martino,Zucong Cai,Daniel Gwary,H. Henry Janzen,Pushpam Kumar,Bruce A. McCarl,Stephen M. Ogle,Frank P. O'Mara,Charles W. Rice,Bob Scholes,O D Sirotenko,Mark Howden,Tim A. McAllister,Genxing Pan,V. Romanenkov,Uwe A. Schneider,Sirintornthep Towprayoon,Martin Wattenbach,Jo Smith +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the economic potential of agricultural practices, such as water and rice management, set-aside, land use change and agroforestry, livestock management and manure management, is estimated.
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Soil Water Characteristic Estimates by Texture and Organic Matter for Hydrologic Solutions
Keith E. Saxton,Walter J. Rawls +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed new soil water characteristic equations from the currently available USDA soil database using only the readily available variables of soil texture and organic matter (OM), and combined these equations with previously reported relationships for tensions and conductivities and the effects of density, gravel, and salinity to form a comprehensive predictive system of soil water characteristics for agricultural water management and hydrologic analyses.
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The impact of new physical parametrizations in the Hadley Centre Climate Model—HADAM3
TL;DR: HadAM3 (Hadley Centre Atmospheric Model version 3) as discussed by the authors is the latest version of the Hadley Centre climate model, which represents a significant improvement over the previous version, HadAM2b.
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A comparison of the performance of nine soil organic matter models using datasets from seven long-term experiments
Pete Smith,Jo Smith,David S. Powlson,W B McGill,J. R. M. Arah,O G Chertov,Kevin Coleman,Uwe Franko,Steve Frolking,D. S. Jenkinson,Leif Jensen,Robin Kelly,H Klein-Gunnewiek,Alexander Komarov,Changsheng Li,J. A. E. Molina,T. Mueller,William J. Parton,J. H. M. Thornley,Andrew P. Whitmore +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, nine soil organic models were evaluated using twelve datasets from seven long-term experiments and the performance of the models was compared both qualitatively and quantitatively, and possible reasons for differences in model performance were discussed in detail.
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The turnover of organic carbon and nitrogen in soil.
TL;DR: In this article, a two-compartment model was proposed to represent the first few years of the decay of 14 C-labelled plant material in soil and showed to give a useful representation of data from the Rothamsted long-term field experiments.