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Biomass yield, yield stability and soil carbon and nitrogen content under cropping systems destined for biorefineries

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Chen, Ji, Manevski, Kiril, Lærke, Poul Erik, Jørgensen, Uffe·2022·Soil and Tillage Research
DOI 10.1016/j.still.2022.105397
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Sustainable agriculture should aim to increase biomass yield and yield stability, while protecting soil carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) content. However, few studies have concurrently explored changes in biomass yield, yield stability and soil C and N content under different cropping systems targeting biorefinery. In this study, 10 different cropping systems were simultaneously investigated from 2012 to 2017 in central Denmark on a loamy sand soil, including (1) two continuous monocultures of annual crops, (2) one optimized crop rotation, (3) five intensively fertilized perennial grasses, and (4) two grass-legume mixtures without nitrogen (N) fertilization. Our results showed that biomass yield and yield stability differed highly across the cropping systems, highlighting crop-specific characteristics. Of the 10 cropping systems, tall fescue significantly increased soil C and N content at 0–20 cm depth, while sustaining high biomass yield and yield stability. There was no clear relationship between biomass yield, yield stability and changes in soil C and N content, challenging some recent findings on the conflicts between increasing biomass yield and protecting soil C and N content. Indeed, the lack of relationships suggest that there is considerable potential to increase biomass yield and yield stability without compromising soil C and N content through selecting proper cropping systems and managements. Altogether, our results underscore how crop-specific documentation of biomass yield, yield stability and changes in soil C and N content on the same experimental platform can advance the understanding of sustainable agriculture for biorefineries, although long-term continuous observations are still required to better clarify the relations between them.

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  • Arable land conversion to perennial energy crops has been shown to increase soil C stocks on both regional and global scales.

    “Arable land conversion to perennial energy crops has been shown to increase soil C stocks on both regional and global scales (Chen, Lærke, & Jørgensen,2022; Chen, Manevski, et al., 2022; Ledo et al., 2020).”

    From Marginal land conversion to perennial energy crops with biomass removal enhances soil carbon sequestration (2022) · cites this paper as Chen, Manevski, et al., 2022

    Section 3.2 reports that perennial grasses increased soil C content while annual crops decreased it in some soil layers, supporting the direction of the claim. The study measured soil C content in cropping systems established in Denmark; it does not establish increased soil C stocks on regional or global scales. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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Chen, J., Manevski, K., Lærke, P. E., & Jørgensen, U.
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Keywords
biomass yield, yield stability, soil carbon, soil nitrogen, cropping systems, biorefinery feedstock, perennial grasses, tall fescue, grass-legume mixtures, crop rotation, continuous monoculture, nitrogen fertilization, sustainable agriculture, loamy sand soil

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

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