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Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation

Stewart, Catherine E., Paustian, Keith, Conant, Richard T., Plante, Alain F., Six, Johan·2007·Biogeochemistry

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Current estimates of soil C storage potential are based on models or factors that assume linearity between C input levels and C stocks at steady-state, implying that SOC stocks could increase without limit as C input levels increase. However, some soils show little or no increase in steady-state SOC stock with increasing C input levels suggesting that SOC can become saturated with respect to C input. We used long-term field experiment data to assess alternative hypotheses of soil carbon storage by three simple models: a linear model (no saturation), a one-pool whole-soil C saturation model, and a two-pool mixed model with C saturation of a single C pool, but not the whole soil. The one-pool C saturation model best fit the combined data from 14 sites, four individual sites were best-fit with the linear model, and no sites were best fit by the mixed model. These results indicate that existing agricultural field experiments generally have too small a range in C input levels to show saturation behavior, and verify the accepted linear relationship between soil C and C input used to model SOM dynamics. However, all sites combined and the site with the widest range in C input levels were best fit with the C-saturation model. Nevertheless, the same site produced distinct effective stabilization capacity curves rather than an absolute C saturation level. We conclude that the saturation of soil C does occur and therefore the greatest efficiency in soil C sequestration will be in soils…

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Authors: Stewart, C. E., Paustian, K., Conant, R. T., Plante, A. F., & Six, J.
Affiliations: Colorado State University (US)
University of Pennsylvania (US)
University of California, Davis (US)
Corresponding author: Stewart, Catherine E.
ORCID: Stewart, Catherine E.
Paustian, Keith
Conant, Richard T.
Plante, Alain F.
Six, Johan
Venue: Biogeochemistry
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2007-08-03
Volume: 86
Issue: 1
Pages: 19-31
ISSN: 0168-2563 (ISSN-L)
1573-515X
DOI: 10.1007/s10533-007-9140-0
OpenAlex: W2044716830
Cited by: 911
References: 41
Citations by year: 2026: 85 · 2025: 91 · 2024: 86 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 59 · 2021: 66 · 2020: 64 · 2019: 38 · 2018: 55 · 2017: 48 · 2016: 25 · 2015: 32 · 2014: 43 · 2013: 39 · 2012: 25
FWCI: 26.14
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
Locations: Biogeochemistry (publishedVersion)
Topics: Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil erosion and sediment transport
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
Keywords: soil carbon saturation, soil organic carbon, soil carbon sequestration, carbon input, carbon stabilization, long-term field experiment

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