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Soil organic carbon dynamics from agricultural management practices under climate change
Tobias Herzfeld
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Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Jens Heinke
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Susanne Rolinski
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
Christoph Müller
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Member of the Leibniz
Association, P.O. Box 60 12 03, 14412 Potsdam, Germany
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Sebastian Ostberg, Christoph Müller, Jens Heinke, and Sibyll Schaphoff
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Soil organic carbon sequestration on cropland has been proposed as a climate change mitigation strategy. We simulate different agricultural management practices under climate change scenarios using a global biophysical model. We find that at the global aggregated level, agricultural management practices are not capable of enhancing total carbon storage in the soil, yet for some climate regions, we find that there is potential to enhance the carbon content in cropland soils.
Soil organic carbon sequestration on cropland has been proposed as a climate change mitigation...
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