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Landscape-scale modeling of carbon cycling under the impact of soilredistribution: The role of tillage erosion

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Van Oost, Kristof [UCL] Govers, Gerard [Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, K.U.Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium] Quine, Timothy A. Heckrath, Goswin Olesen, Jorgen E. MERCKX, Roel

Despite its global significance, soil-atmosphere carbon (C) exchange under the impact of soil redistribution remains an unquantified component of the global C budget. Here we use radionuclide and soil organic carbon (SOC) data for two agricultural fields in Europe to undertake a spatial analysis of sediment and SOC fate during erosion and deposition in agricultural uplands. C fluxes induced by soil redistribution are quantified by incorporating C dynamics in a spatially distributed model including both water- and tillage-induced soil redistribution (SPEROS-C). The SOC patterns predicted by SPEROS- C are in good agreement with field observations and show that in upland areas, tillage erosion and deposition exerts a large influence on SOC redistribution and soil profile evolution at a timescale of a few decades. The formation of new SOC at eroding sites and the burial of eroded SOC below plough depth provide an important mechanism for C sequestration on sloping arable land in the order of 3–10 g C m 2 yr 1 . Any attempt to manage agricultural land to maximize sequestration must fully account for erosion, burial and fate of eroded and buried SOC across the landscape and must also account for the correlation between tillage and erosion.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès interdit
Publication date 2005
Language Anglais
Journal information "Global Biogeochemical Cycles : an international journal of global change" - Vol. 19, no.GB4014, p. 1-13 (2005)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. ((United States) Hoboken)
issn 0886-6236
e-issn 1944-9224
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIC - Earth & Climate
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Bibliographic reference Van Oost, Kristof ; Govers, Gerard ; Quine, Timothy A. ; Heckrath, Goswin ; Olesen, Jorgen E. ; et. al. Landscape-scale modeling of carbon cycling under the impact of soilredistribution: The role of tillage erosion. In: Global Biogeochemical Cycles : an international journal of global change, Vol. 19, no.GB4014, p. 1-13 (2005)
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