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A simple soil organic-matter model for biomass data assimilation in community-level carbon contracts

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/715/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/07-1133.1
 
Title A simple soil organic-matter model for biomass data assimilation in community-level carbon contracts
 
Creator Traore, P C S
Bostick, W M
Jones, J W
Koo, J
Goita, K
Bado, B V
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Soil carbon (C) sequestration has been proposed as a transitional win-win strategy to help replenish organic-matter content in depleted agricultural soils and counter increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases. Data assimilation and remote sensing can reduce uncertainty in sequestered C mass estimates, but simple soil organic carbon (SOC) models are required to make operational predictions of tradeable amounts over large, heterogenous areas. Our study compared the performance of RothC26.3 and a reduced compartmental model on an 11-year fertilizer trial in subhumid West Africa. Root mean square error (RMSE) differences of 0.05 Mg C/ha between models on total SOC predictions suggest that for contractual purposes, SOC dynamics can be simulated by a two-pool structure with labile and stable components. Faster (seasonal) and slower (semicentennial and beyond) rates can be approximated by constants as instantaneous and infinite decay. In these systems, simulations indicate that cereal residue incorporation holds most potential for mitigation of transient C loss associated with recent land conversion to agriculture.
 
Date 2008
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/715/1/EcolAppl18_3_624-636_2008.pdf
Traore, P C S and Bostick, W M and Jones, J W and Koo, J and Goita, K and Bado, B V (2008) A simple soil organic-matter model for biomass data assimilation in community-level carbon contracts. Ecological Applications, 18 (3). pp. 624-636.