Greater soil carbon stocks and faster turnover rates with increasing agricultural productivity

Sanderman, Jonathan; Creamer, Courtney; Baisden, W. Troy; Farrell, Mark; Fallon, Stewart

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-1-2017

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-1-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-3-1-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 3, issue 1

Original research article

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04 Jan 2017

Original research article |

| 04 Jan 2017

Greater soil carbon stocks and faster turnover rates with increasing agricultural productivity

Jonathan Sanderman, Courtney Creamer, W. Troy Baisden, Mark Farrell, and Stewart Fallon

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 19 Sep 2016
- AC1: 'author response to RC #1', Jonathan Sanderman, 14 Nov 2016
RC2: 'Soil 2016 54', Anonymous Referee #2, 10 Oct 2016
- AC2: 'Author response to RC #2', Jonathan Sanderman, 14 Nov 2016
SC1: 'Comments on figures', Antonio Jordán, 14 Oct 2016
- AC3: 'Author response to SC1', Jonathan Sanderman, 14 Nov 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after minor revisions (review by Editor) (18 Nov 2016) by Bas van Wesemael

AR by Jonathan Sanderman on behalf of the Authors (29 Nov 2016) Author's response

ED: Publish as is (12 Dec 2016) by Bas van Wesemael

ED: Publish as is (12 Dec 2016) by John Quinton (Executive editor)

AR by Jonathan Sanderman on behalf of the Authors (15 Dec 2016)

Short summary

Knowledge of how soil carbon stocks and flows change in response to agronomic management decisions is a critical step in devising management strategies that best promote food security while mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. Here, we present 40 years of data demonstrating that increasing productivity both leads to greater carbon stocks and accelerates the decomposition of soil organic matter, thus providing more nutrients back to the crop.