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Land-use perturbations in ley grassland decouple the degradation of ancient soil organic matter from the storage of newly derived carbon inputs
Marco Panettieri
INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR1402 ECOSYS, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon,
France
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), c/Serrano 115-B,
28006 Madrid, Spain
Denis Courtier-Murias
GERS-LEE, Univ Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, 44344 Bouguenais,
France
Cornelia Rumpel
UMR Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Paris (iEES), CNRS, INRAE, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Marie-France Dignac
UMR Institute of Ecology and Environmental Sciences Paris (iEES), CNRS, INRAE, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Gonzalo Almendros
Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (MNCN-CSIC), c/Serrano 115-B,
28006 Madrid, Spain
Abad Chabbi
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
INRAE, AgroParisTech, UMR1402 ECOSYS, 78850 Thiverval-Grignon,
France
INRAE, UR P3F, 86600 Lusignan, France
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Contaminant transport in soils is known to be affected by soil heterogeneities such as macropores. The transport properties of heterogeneous porous media can be studied in laboratory columns. However, the results reported in this study (a combination of breakthrough experiments, magnetic resonance imaging and computer simulations of transport) show that these properties can be largely affected by the boundary devices of the columns, thus highlighting the need to take their effect into account.
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Short summary
In the context of global change, soil has been identified as a potential C sink, depending on land-use strategies. This work is devoted to identifying the processes affecting labile soil C pools resulting from changes in land use. We show that the land-use change in ley grassland provoked a decoupling of the storage and degradation processes after the grassland phase. Overall, the study enables us to develop a sufficient understanding of fine-scale C dynamics to refine soil C prediction models.
In the context of global change, soil has been identified as a potential C sink, depending on...
