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Knowledge gaps on trade-offs of soil carbon sequestration related to soil management strategies
<p>The database contains 87 unique literature items (29 reviews, 42 meta-analyses, 16 original papers) describing the effect of a soil management strategy (tillage management, cropping systems, water management, cover crops, crop residues, livestock manure, slurry, compost, biochar, liming) on the trade-offs between soil carbon sequestration or SOC change and N2O emission, CH4 emission and nitrogen leaching. Since some literature items describe effects of several SMS categories, the database_summary tab comprises a total of 112 unique inputs. For each input it is indicated in the Database_summary tab if it was used as input for the "Soil management effect assessment" in Maenhout et al. (2024) [Maenhout, P., Di Bene, C., Cayuela, M. L., Diaz-Pines, E., Govednik, A., Keuper, F., Mavsar, S., Mihelic, R., O'Toole, A., Schwarzmann, A., Suhadolc, M., Syp, A., & Valkama, E. (2024). Trade-offs and synergies of soil carbon sequestration: Addressing knowledge gaps related to soil management strategies. European Journal of Soil Science, 75(3), e13515. https://doi.org/10.1111/ejss.13515] and/or to define knowledge gaps ("Knowledge gap in tab"-column). Knowledge gaps and research recommendations are gouped per soil management strategy in different tabs in this database. Per soil management strategy, knowledge gaps are clustered per theme in groups. These themes include: the specific soil management strategy, pedoclimatic conditions, establishment of experiments, other soil management strategies, meta-analysis, modelling and other</p>
Unpublished data: Quantifying CO2 Emissions and Carbon Sequestration from Digestate-Amended Soil Using Natural 13C Abundance as a Tracer
<p>Unprocessed data of CO2 evolution measured daily on cavity ring-down spectroscopy analyser (G2201-i CRDS isotopic CO2/CH4 analyser, Picarro, Santa Clara, CA, USA).</p>
scmcclelland/joint-mediation-study: Data, Analysis, and Figure Scripts for "Soil organic carbon sequestration jointly-mediated by plants and microbes after compost application"
<p>This repository contains data, analysis, and figure scripts to create findings from the manuscript "Soil organic carbon sequestration jointly-mediated by plants and microbes after compost application" currently under minor revisions.</p> <p>This release includes updated code, primarily improvements to figures, and a new script for a supplementary map figure.</p>
Realistic soil carbon sequestration considering food security and climate change
<p>This dataset contains soil organic carbon stocks as described in Keel et al. Global Change Biology (submitted)</p> <p>Annual soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks (t C ha-1, 0-30 cm depth) of Swiss agricultural soils simulated with the model RothC for the years 2020-2100. Simulations were performed for 240 strata (regions with similar agricultural production types, climatic conditions and clay content). The SOC stocks are weighted averages across strata for the national scale. <br> Each column contains SOC stocks for a specific combination of a climate model chains (nine in total) and an emission scenario (three in total: RCP 26, RCP 45, RCP 85) (specified in column header). </p> <p>The results include simulated SOC stocks for a baseline scenario and five soil carbon sequestration (SCS) scenarios (cover crops, biochar amendment at two rates, biochar amendment based on biomass from two agroforestry scenarios). <br> The SCS scenarios were only performed on cropland, therefore there is only a single file for grassland (the baseline scenario). <br> All simulations (i.e. baseline as well as the five scenarios) account for changes in crop shares and organic matter additions associated with growing food demand as well as climate change. </p> <p>The scenarios are described in Keel et al. Global Change Biology (submitted)</p> <p>CL_baseline: Baseline scenario for cropland (CL) <br> GL_baseline: Baseline scenario for permanent grassland (GL)<br> CL_cover_crops: Cover crop scenario for cropland <br> CL_biochar_I: Biochar I scenario for cropland <br> CL_biochar_II: Biochar II scenario for cropland <br> CL_agroforestry_I: Agroforestry I scenario for cropland <br> CL_agroforestry_II: Agroforestry II scenario for cropland </p>
Carbon sequestration potential in hedgerow soils: Results from 23 sites in Germany
<p>Dataset to the manuscript: Drexler, S. & Don, A. (2024). Carbon sequestration potential in hedgerow soils: Results from 23 sites in Germany. Geoderma. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116878">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2024.116878</a></p> <ul> <li>Drexler_Don_2024_Data: contains the lab data for all samples</li> <li>Drexler_Don_2024_SOC_Stock_Per_Core: contains the calculated SOC stocks per soil core</li> </ul>
Data for: Nitrogen dynamics and carbon sequestration in soil following application of digestates from one- and two-step anaerobic digestion
<p>Data set for article <span>Nitrogen dynamics and carbon sequestration in soil following application of digestates from one- and two-step anaerobic digestion (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158177).</span></p>
Initial soil conditions outweigh management in a cool-season dairy farm's carbon sequestration potential
<p>Data used in the manuscript "Initial soil conditions outweigh management in a cool-season dairy farm’s carbon sequestration potential" (<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152195">10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.152195</a>)</p> <p> </p> <p>Soil samples, gas fluxes, and biomass samples measured at the Organic Dairy Research Farm at the University of New Hampshire. Soil samples were in two sets, a spatially explicit set from 0 - 15 cm depth, and less spatially explicit samples taken at 10 cm increments. Soils were sampled for soil carbon and nitrogen content. Gas fluxes were measured using the chamber method with carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide gases measured on gas chromatographs with the change over time used to measure the gas flux rates. Forage biomass was measured by collecting biomass in 1 m2 plots. Please see the manuscript for more details on sampling.</p>
Carbon sequestration of a forested wetland receiving nutrient inputs - soil, tree and greenhouse gas data
<p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Here we describe a pilot wetland carbon project located 30 km west of New Orleans where measurements were taken in 2013 and 2018, and applied to the carbon offset methodology, "Restoration of Degraded Deltaic Wetlands of the Mississippi Delta" ("the ACR Methodology") published by the American Carbon Registry (ACR). Baseline emissions were modeled using values derived from scientific literature. Results indicate net sequestration rate of 619,727 tons carbon dioxide equivalent (CO<sub>2</sub>e) over the 40 year project duration, which equates to 16,527 t CO2-e/yr, if wetland greenhouse gases (GHGs) are included, and 200,143 t CO<sub>2</sub>e over 40 years, or 5,003 t CO2-e/yr, if wetland greenhouse gasses were conservatively omitted. A kriging exercise was carried out that modeled the tree and soil pools, which resulted in net sequestration of 723,375 t CO2-e over 40 years (annual mean 18,084 t CO2-e/yr) with greenhouse gases, and 262,472 t CO2-e over 40 years (annual mean rate 6,560 t CO2-e/yr) if greenhouse gases were omitted. Unfortunately, the project was withdrawn, prohibiting the issuance and eventual transaction of carbon credits, due to very large uncertainty estimates mostly associated with GHG emissions and the kriging approach as in situ sampling could not be conducted as required by the methodology.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and belowground carbon sequestration
<p>Forest management has a potential to alter belowground carbon storage. However, the underlying mechanisms, and the relative importance of carbon input and decomposition in regulation of soil carbon dynamics are poorly understood.</p> <p>We examined whether interactive effects of forest fertilization and thinning on carbon stocks in the topsoil of boreal forests were linked to changes in fungal community composition, biomass, and enzyme activities, in a long-term fertilization and thinning experiment distributed across 29 Pinus sylvestris forests along a 1300 km latitudinal transect in Sweden.</p> <p>Nitrogen fertilization increased fungal biomass, particularly towards the north and mainly by promoting root associated Ascomycetes, but the response was moderated by thinning. Fungal biomass correlated positively with carbon stocks in the organic topsoil. However, ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius species were reduced in abundance by fertilization and correlated negatively with carbon stocks.</p> <p>Plausibly, increased soil carbon stocks after fertilization are linked to increased input of carbon in the form of root-associated mycelium combined with loss of ectomycorrhizal decomposers within the genus Cortinarius. These fungal responses to fertilization may mediate a natural climate solution by promoting carbon sequestration in the organic topsoil, but the effect of fertilization may also be undesired from a biodiversity perspective.</p>
Changing plant species composition and richness benefit soil carbon sequestration under climate warming
<p>Anthropogenic warming and land-use change are expected to accelerate global soil organic carbon (SOC) losses and change plant species composition and richness. However, how changes in plant composition and species richness mediate SOC responses to climate warming and land-use change remains poorly understood. Using data from a 7-year warming and clipping field experiment in an alpine meadow on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau, we examined the direct effects of warming and clipping on SOC storage versus their indirect effects mediated by plant functional type and species richness. We found that warming significantly increased SOC storage by 8.1% and clipping decreased it by 6.4%, which was closely correlated with the corresponding response of below-ground net primary productivity (BNPP). We also found a negative correlation between SOC storage and species richness, which was ascribed to the increased BNPP via enhancing the dominance of grasses and decreasing species richness under warming. The lower SOC storage under clipping was caused by the clipping-induced decrease in BNPP via weakening the dominance of grasses and increasing species richness. Our findings highlight that the SOC storage in this alpine meadow under climate warming and clipping was primarily governed by BNPP, which was mediated by changes in the dominance of grasses and species richness. Overall, our study demonstrates that shifting to the dominance of grasses and changing species richness would benefit soil C sequestration under climate warming, but this positive effect would be dampened by grazing or hay harvest.</p>
Wetland sediment soil organic carbon sequestration data to support radiometric technique comparisons
<p>This workbook shows the ID, the geographical location, the year of sampling, and sediment core information in samples collected from undisturbed wetlands situated across four provinces of Canada (Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Ontario) from 2016 to 2019.</p>
Data from: Hidden role of trophic cascade effects for soil carbon sequestration in alpine tundra
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Carbon sequestration of a forested wetland receiving nutrient inputs - soil, tree and greenhouse gas data
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Changing plant species composition and richness benefit soil carbon sequestration under climate warming
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Links between boreal forest management, soil fungal communities and belowground carbon sequestration
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Data from: Carbon sequestration and soil restoration potential of grazing lands under exclosure management in a semi-arid environment of northern Ethiopia
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Data from: Differential impacts of nitrogen addition on rhizosphere and bulk-soil carbon sequestration in an alpine shrubland
<p><span><span>1. Due to complex root-soil interactions, the responses of carbon (C) dynamics in the rhizosphere to elevated nitrogen (N) deposition may be different from those in bulk soil. However, the potentially different response of C dynamics in the rhizosphere and bulk soils and their contributions to soil C sequestration under N deposition is still not elucidated.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>2. We conducted an N addition experiment in an alpine shrubland dominated by <i>Sibiraea angustata</i> located on the eastern Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP). We measured the soil organic C (SOC) contents and density fractions in the rhizosphere and bulk soils in the top 15 cm of mineral soil and then employed a numerical model based on the rhizosphere extent to evaluate how the rhizosphere modulates soil C sequestration under N addition. We also measured the microbial gene abundance and C-acquisition enzyme activities to assess microbial community responses to N addition.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>3. The results showed that nitrogen addition had opposite effects on the rhizosphere and bulk-soil C stocks. Specifically, N addition decreased the rhizosphere SOC content through increasing bacterial abundance, β-glucosidase activity, and thus accelerating the loss of free light fraction C (FLF-C). However, N addition increased the bulk-soil C content, which was corresponding with the reduced oxidase activities and the accelerated accumulation of heavy fraction C (HF-C) under N addition. Numerical model analysis showed that the decrease induced by N addition in rhizosphere SOC stock ranged from 0.11 to 3.01 kg C m<sup>-2</sup> as root exudation diffusion distance extended from 0.5 mm to 2 mm, while the corresponding increase in the bulk-soil C stock ranged from 1.91 to 4.08 kg C m<sup>-2</sup>. By synthesizing the dynamics of the SOC stocks in these two soil compartments under N addition, the SOC stock at the ecosystem level exhibited an increase in range of 0.73-2.44 kg C m<sup>-2</sup>.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>4. <i>Synthesis</i> Our results suggest that alpine shrublands on the eastern QTP have great potential for soil C sequestration under N deposition, and the magnitude of the sequestration would depend closely on the responses of rhizosphere microbial C processes and the rhizosphere extent. Our results highlight the importance of integrating rhizosphere processes into land surface models to accurately predict ecosystem functions in the background of elevated N deposition.</span></span></p>
Data from: Do microorganism stoichiometric alterations affect carbon sequestration in paddy soil subjected to phosphorus input?
Ecological stoichiometry provides a powerful tool for integrating microbial biomass stoichiometry with ecosystem processes, opening far-reaching possibilities for linking microbial dynamics to soil carbon (C) metabolism in response to agricultural nutrient management. Despite its importance to crop yield, the role of phosphorus (P) with respect to ecological stoichiometry and soil C sequestration in paddy fields remains poorly understood, which limits our ability to predict nutrient-related soil C cycling. Here, we collected soil samples from a paddy field experiment after 7 years of superphosphate application along a gradient of 0, 30, 60, 90 (P-0 through P-90, respectively) kg P ha-1 y-1 in order to evaluate the role of exogenous P on soil C sequestration through regulating microbial stoichiometry. P fertilization increased soil total organic C and labile organic C by 1-14% and 4-96%, respectively, while rice yield is a function of the activities of soil β-1, 4-glucosidase (BG), acid phosphatase (AP) and the level of available soil P through a stepwise linear regression model. P input induced C limitation as reflected by decreases in the ratios of C:P in soil and microbial biomass. An ecoenzymatic ratio indicating microbial investment in C versus P acquisition, i.e., ln(BG):ln(AP), changed the ecological function of microbial C acquisition and was stoichiometrically related to P input. This mechanism drove a shift in soil resource availability by increasing bacterial community richness and diversity, and stimulated soil C sequestration in the paddy field by enhancing C degradation-related bacteria for the breakdown of plant-derived carbon sources. Therefore, the decline in the C:P stoichiometric ratio of soil microorganism biomass under P input was beneficial for soil C sequestration, which offered a "win-win" relationship for the maximum balance point between C sequestration and P availability for rice production in the face of climate change.
Observation‐based global soil heterotrophic respiration indicates underestimated turnover and sequestration of soil carbon by terrestrial ecosystem models
<p><span>Soil heterotrophic respiration (R<sub>h</sub>) refers to the flux of CO2 released from soil to atmosphere as a result of organic matter decomposition by soil microbes and fauna. As one of the major fluxes in the global carbon cycle, the estimation of global R<sub>h</sub> still exists large uncertainties, which further limited our current understanding of the carbon accumulation in soils. Here, we applied a Random Forest algorithm to create a global dataset of soil R<sub>h</sub>, by linking 761 field observations with both abiotic and biotic predictors. We estimated that the global R<sub>h</sub> was 48.8 ± 0.9 Pg C yr<sup>-1</sup> for 1982–2018, which was 16% less than the ensemble mean (58.6 ± 9.9 Pg C yr<sup>-1</sup>) of 16 terrestrial ecosystem models. By integrating our observational R<sub>h</sub> with independent soil carbon stock datasets, we obtained a global mean soil carbon turnover time of 38.3 ± 11 yr. Using observation-based turnover times as a constraint, we found that terrestrial ecosystem models simulated faster carbon turnovers, leading to a 30% (74 Pg C) underestimation of terrestrial ecosystem carbon accumulation for the past century, which was especially pronounced at high latitudes. This underestimation is equivalent to 45% of the total carbon emissions (164 Pg C) caused by global land use change at the same time. Our analyses highlight the need to constrain ecosystem models using observation-based and locally adapted R<sub>h</sub> values to obtain reliable predictions of the carbon sink capacity of terrestrial ecosystems. </span></p>
Manganese limitations and the enhanced soil carbon sequestration of temperate rainforests
<p>Manganese (Mn) has been identified as a regulatory bottleneck in the accumulation of humus because of its role as an enzymatic co-factor in the breakdown of recalcitrant C by Mn-peroxidase (MnP). We tested this abiotic limit on decay via contrasting soils along a podzolization gradient of coastal British Columbia, where an inverse exponential relationship between soil organic carbon (SOC) and exchangeable Mn had been observed. Moderately weathered soils (Brunisols) had an average 3.6-fold increase in MnP activity within the upper soil profile in comparison to highly weathered Podzols. An ordination of the Agaricomycete fungal community, which are responsible for MnP production in soils, confirmed significant differences in assemblages across soil types for saprotrophic fungi, particularly species within the Agaricales, Trechisporales and Auriculariales. Ectomycorrhizal fungi of <i>Pseudotsuga</i> <i>menziesii</i> were equally aligned with soil type and select taxa more abundant on Brunisols may have supplemented MnP activity. A laboratory incubation with an Mn amendment produced significant interactions in MnP activity by soil type. Surprisingly, MnP activity of both Brunisol substrates declined substantially with an amendment (-56% and -40% for forest floor and mineral soil, respectively), in contrast to Podzols (-30% and +26%, respectively). This inhibitory response was linked to considerable uptake of the amendment, and underscores how Mn<sup>2+</sup> operates directly on fungi as a regulator of <i>mnp</i> transcription for MnP production. Our study highlights a new perspective concerning the abiotic drivers underpinning the large, expansive soil C stocks across perhumid temperate rainforests of the Pacific Northwest.</p>
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