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Soil carbon saturation: concept, evidence and evaluation

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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.
Venue
Biogeochemistry
Published
2007-08-03
Volume
86
Issue
1
Pages
19-31
ISSN
  • 0168-2563 (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-515X
OpenAlex
W2044716830
Cited by
911
References
41
Citations by year
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FWCI
26.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
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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