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Nitrogen availability determines the long-term impact of land use change on soil carbon stocks in grasslands of southern Ghana
John Kormla Nyameasem
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Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding – Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Animal Research
Institute, Achimota, Accra, Ghana
Thorsten Reinsch
Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding – Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Friedhelm Taube
Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding – Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Charles Yaw Fosu Domozoro
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Animal Research
Institute, Achimota, Accra, Ghana
Esther Marfo-Ahenkora
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research – Animal Research
Institute, Achimota, Accra, Ghana
Iraj Emadodin
Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding – Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
Carsten Stefan Malisch
Institute for Crop Science and Plant Breeding – Grass and Forage Science/Organic Agriculture, Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany
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In dynamic global vegetation models (DGVMs), the role of functional diversity in forage supply and soil organic carbon storage of grasslands is not explicitly taken into account. We introduced functional diversity into the Lund Potsdam Jena managed Land (LPJmL) DGVM using CSR theory. The new model reproduced well-known trade-offs between plant traits and can be used to quantify the role of functional diversity in climate change mitigation using different functional diversity scenarios.
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Land use change (LUC) and conventional tillage (CT) are resulting in the reduction of the high soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks stored in grassland ecosystems during their conversion and renovation, contributing thus to global warming. Using no-tillage (NT) is seen as an avenue to minimize or even conserve SOC stocks during these events. Our results show that SOC losses are greatly reduced after grassland conversion to arable land, whereas during renovation it contributes to conserve them.
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Long-term studies on the impact of land use change and crop selection on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in sub-Saharan Africa are scarce. Accordingly, this study analysed the impact of converting natural grasslands to a range of low-input production systems in a tropical savannah on SOC stocks. Apart from the cultivation of legume tree and/or shrub species, all land management techniques were detrimental. Grazed grasslands in particular had almost 50 % less SOC than natural grasslands.
Long-term studies on the impact of land use change and crop selection on soil organic carbon...
