Turnover and availability of soil organic carbon under different M editerranean land‐uses as estimated by 13 C natural abundance
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Summary: Soil organic matter ( SOM ) is an important factor in ecosystem stability and productivity. This is especially the case for Mediterranean soils suffering from the impact of human degradation as well as harsh climatic conditions. We used the carbon ( C ) exchange resulting from C 3 ‐C 4 and C 4 ‐C 3 vegetation change under field conditions combined with incubations under controlled conditions to evaluate the turnover and availability of soil organic C under different land‐uses. The 40‐year succession of Hyparrenia hirta L . ( C 4 photosynthesis) after more than 85 years of olive tree ( Olea europaea L .; C 3 photosynthesis) growth led to the exchange of 54% of soil organic C from C 3 to C 4 forms. In contrast, 21 years of vine ( Vitis vinifera L.) growing after H. hirta decreased the organic C content to 57%. Considering this exchange and decrease as well as the periods after the land‐use changes, we calculated the mean residence time ( MRT ) of soil C of different ages. The MRT of C under grassland dominated by H. hirta was about 19 years, but was 180 years under the vineyard. The rates of C accumulation under the H. hirta grassland were about 0.36 Mg C ha −1 year −1 . In contrast, the rates of C losses after conversion from natural grassland to a vineyard were 1.8 times greater and amounted to 0.65 Mg C ha −1 year −1 . We conclude that changes of land use from natural M editerranean grassland to a vineyard lead to very large C losses that cannot be compensated for over the same periods.
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Most studies on changes in soil C after perennial energy crop cultivation have not separated SOC into new and old pools, which may cause vague estimation of land-use effects on soil C dynamics.
“In addition, most studies available on the changes in soil C after perennial energy crops cultivation have not separated SOC into new and old pools, which may cause a vague estimation of the effects of land use on soil C dynamics as the old pools to have a much longer mean residence time (MRT) than labile pools (Novara et al.,2013; Zang et al.,2018).”
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The Introduction (page unavailable) says that measuring net carbon change alone does not distinguish carbon from old vegetation from inputs under new land use. The Carbon turnover section reports much longer mean residence times for bulk soil organic matter than for easily available carbon. The paper does not establish that most studies of perennial energy crops fail to separate old and new SOC pools; its study concerns Mediterranean olive groves, grassland and vineyards. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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- Authors
- Novara, A., Gristina, L., Kuzyakov, Y., Schillaci, C., Laudicina, V. A., & La Mantia, T.
- Affiliations
- University of Göttingen (DE)
- University of Palermo (IT)
- Dipartimento di Scienze Agrarie e Forestali University of Palermo Palermo 90128 Italy
- Corresponding author
- Novara, A.
- Venue
- European Journal of Soil Science
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2013-06-06
- Volume
- 64
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 466-475
- ISSN
- 1351-0754 (ISSN-L)
- 1365-2389
- OpenAlex
- W2099875743
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 2
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- FWCI
- 4.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- European Journal of Soil Science (publishedVersion)
- GRO (publishedVersion)
- Nova Science Publishers (Nova Science Publishers, Inc.) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- 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 and Environmental Studies
- Keywords
- soil organic carbon, carbon turnover, mean residence time, land use change, Olea europaea, vineyards, Mediterranean grasslands, carbon accumulation, carbon loss, 13C natural abundance, soil carbon sequestration
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