Trade-offs and synergies of soil carbon sequestration and environmental impacts: implications for agricultural management
Trade-offs and synergies of soil carbon sequestration and environmental impacts: implications for agricultural management
Editor(s): Eugenio Diaz Pines (BOKU, Vienna), Tuula Larmola (Natural Resources Institute Finland, Finland), Cristina Aponte (INIA-CSIC, Spain), Mart Ros (Wageningen Research, Netherlands), Ana Meijide (University of Bonn, Germany), and Jeanette Whitaker (UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, UK)
Increasing soil organic carbon in agricultural soils is a strategy that is becoming increasingly popular as part of the global efforts to mitigate climate change. A large range of management strategies aim to increase or maintain organic soil organic carbon levels, including minimizing soil disturbance, diversifying vegetation, directly incorporating organic matter, and restoring drained organic soils. While these practices might be valid to increase soil organic carbon stocks, they can have associated trade-offs related to environmental impacts, such as increased greenhouse gas emissions (N2O and CH4) and nutrient losses, as well as socio-ecological implications. This special issue comprises contributions that give insight into the trade-offs and synergies associated with agricultural management practices that aim to mitigate climate change through soil carbon sequestration. It is a joint effort from scientists participating in projects within the European Joint Programme Cofund on Agricultural Soil Management (EJP SOIL, https://ejpsoil.eu) who act as invited editors.

Review process: all papers of this special issue underwent the regular interactive peer-review process of SOIL handled by guest editors designated by the SOIL executive editors.

Download citations of all papers

27 Nov 2024
Impact of crop type on the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of a rewetted cultivated peatland
Kristiina Lång, Henri Honkanen, Jaakko Heikkinen, Sanna Saarnio, Tuula Larmola, and Hanna Kekkonen
SOIL, 10, 827–841, https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-827-2024,https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-10-827-2024, 2024
Short summary
17 Oct 2024
Managing Soil Nitrogen Surplus: The Role of Winter Cover Crops in N2O Emissions and Carbon Sequestration
Victoria Nasser, René Dechow, Mirjam Helfrich, Ana Meijide, Pauline Sophie Rummel, Heinz-Josef Koch, Reiner Ruser, Lisa Essich, and Klaus Dittert
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2849,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-2849, 2024
Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary
11 Oct 2024
Modeling of greenhouse gas emissions from paludiculture in rewetting peatlands is improved by high frequency water table data
Andres F. Rodriguez, Johannes W. M. Pullens, Jesper R. Christiansen, Klaus S. Larsen, and Poul E. Lærke
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3030,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-3030, 2024
Preprint under review for SOIL (discussion: open, 0 comments)
Short summary
26 Mar 2024
Interactions of fertilisation and crop productivity on soil nitrogen cycle microbiome and gas emissions
Laura Kuusemets, Ülo Mander, Jordi Escuer-Gatius, Alar Astover, Karin Kauer, Kaido Soosaar, and Mikk Espenberg
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-593,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-593, 2024
Revised manuscript accepted for SOIL (discussion: final response, 6 comments)
Short summary
22 Dec 2023
Use of soil respiration measurements and RothC modelling show effects of catch crops and precision and traditional agriculture on productivity and soil organic carbon dynamics in a 5 year study in Mediterranean climate
Enrico Balugani, Alessia Castellucci, Matteo Ruggeri, Pierluigi Meriggi, Benedetta Volta, and Diego Marazza
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2966,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-2966, 2023
Revised manuscript under review for SOIL (discussion: final response, 5 comments)
Short summary
CC BY 4.0