Effect of deforestation and subsequent land use management on soil carbon stocks in the South American Chaco

Osinaga, Natalia Andrea; Álvarez, Carina Rosa; Taboada, Miguel Angel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-4-251-2018

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01 Nov 2018

Original research article |

| 01 Nov 2018

Effect of deforestation and subsequent land use management on soil carbon stocks in the South American Chaco

Natalia Andrea Osinaga, Carina Rosa Álvarez, and Miguel Angel Taboada

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Final revised paper (published on 01 Nov 2018)
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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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SC1: 'RC', MARIA DE LOURDES MENDONÇA SANTOS, 11 May 2018
- AC2: 'Response to M. D. L. MENDONÇA SANTOS (Referee)', Carina Rosa Alvarez, 20 Jul 2018
RC1: 'Soil carbon stock changes along a chonosequence in the subhumid chaco of Argentina', Pia Gottschalk, 29 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Response to P. G. Gottschalk (Referee)', Carina Rosa Alvarez, 19 Jul 2018
EC1: 'Request to reply to short comment to your manuscript already posted', Viridiana Alcántara, 20 Jul 2018
- AC3: 'Responses to referees comments', Carina Rosa Alvarez, 20 Jul 2018

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

ED: Revision (01 Aug 2018) by Viridiana Alcántara

AR by Carina Rosa Alvarez on behalf of the Authors (02 Sep 2018)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (23 Sep 2018) by Viridiana Alcántara

AR by Carina Rosa Alvarez on behalf of the Authors (26 Sep 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (03 Oct 2018) by Viridiana Alcántara

ED: Publish as is (06 Oct 2018) by Johan Six (Executive editor)

AR by Carina Rosa Alvarez on behalf of the Authors (13 Oct 2018)

Short summary

The sub-humid Argentine Chaco, originally covered by forest, has been subjected to clearing since the end of the 1970s and replacement of the forest by no-till farming. The organic carbon stock content up to 1 m depth varied as follows: forest > pasture > continuous cropping, with no impact of the number of years under cropping. The incorporation of pastures of warm-season grasses was able to mitigate the decrease of C stocks caused by cropping and so could be considered sustainable management.