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Altered Belowground Carbon Cycling Following Land-Use Change to Perennial Bioenergy Crops
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Belowground carbon (C) dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems play an important role in the global C cycle and thereby in climate regulation. Globally, land-use change is a major driver of changes in belowground C storage. The emerging bioenergy industry is likely to drive widespread land-use changes, including the replacement of annually tilled croplands with perennial bioenergy crops, and thereby to impact the climate system through alteration of belowground C dynamics. Mechanistic understanding of how land-use changes impact belowground C storage requires elucidation of changes in belowground C flows; however, altered belowground C dynamics following land-use change have yet to be thoroughly quantified through field measurements. Here, we show that belowground C cycling pathways of establishing perennial bioenergy crops (0- to 3.5-year-old miscanthus, switchgrass, and a native prairie mix) were substantially altered relative to row crop agriculture (corn-soy rotation); specifically, there were substantial increases in belowground C allocation (>400%), belowground biomass (400–750%), root-associated respiration (up to 2,500%), moderate reductions in litter inputs (20–40%), and respiration in root-free soil (up to 50%). This more active root-associated C cycling of perennial vegetation provides a mechanism for observed net C sequestration by these perennial ecosystems, as well as commonly observed increases in soil C under perennial bioenergy crops throughout the world. The more active root-associated belowground C cycle of perennial vegetation implies a climate benefit of grassland maintenance or restoration, even if biomass is harvested annually for bioenergy production.
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“Some papers cover other GHGs, like CO2 and/or methane [48, 49, 53–55, 57].”
From Carbon Sequestration by Perennial Energy Crops: Is the Jury Still Out? (2015) · cites this paper as [57]
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“The C inputs from Miscanthus rhizomes (1.01 to 2.66 Mg C ha−1 year−1) were generally greater [57, 61, 66, 80, 85] than those from roots (0.19–0.86 Mg C ha−1 year−1, Table 1).”
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“BGB is concentrated in the upper part of the profile [61]; in spite of large amounts of roots under M. giganteus observed down to 1 to 1.8 m [57, 61, 66, 80, 84], more than 50 % were in the top 30 cm.”
From Carbon Sequestration by Perennial Energy Crops: Is the Jury Still Out? (2015) · cites this paper as [57]
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“For the BGB, inputs from HCG roots and rhizomes needed to be separated, which was not always done [45, 57, 86, 106].”
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“The C effectively sequestered under Miscanthus (% retention) ranges between 21 % [19] and ∼70 % [57] of the gross C inputs.”
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“Under switchgrass, a large number of studies [8, 9, 47, 57, 75, 77, 137, 138] showed sequestration rates, which were similar (Table 3) but higher on average (Fig. 4).”
From Carbon Sequestration by Perennial Energy Crops: Is the Jury Still Out? (2015) · cites this paper as [57]
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“Conversion from arable to Miscanthus or switchgrass confirms higher CO2 emissions under grassland (e.g. prairie) [57] reflecting its higher biological activity which eventually increased SOC stocks.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Anderson-Teixeira, K. J., Masters, M. D., Black, C. K., Zeri, M., Hussain, M. Z., Bernacchi, C. J., & DeLucia, E. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Corresponding author
- DeLucia, Evan H.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Ecosystems
- Published
- 2013-01-05
- Volume
- 16
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 508-520
- ISSN
- 1432-9840 (ISSN-L)
- 1435-0629
- OpenAlex
- W2024228913
- Cited by
- 175
- References
- 60
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- FWCI
- 25.12
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Ecosystems (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Agronomy and Crop Science › Bioenergy crop production and management
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Keywords
- belowground carbon cycling, land use change, perennial energy crops, Miscanthus, switchgrass, native prairie, belowground carbon allocation, belowground biomass, litter input, soil respiration, carbon sequestration, grassland restoration, climate change mitigation
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