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Carbon sequestration in the uplands of Eastern China: An analysis with high-resolution model simulations.
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Soil & Tillage Research . May2016, Vol. 158, p165-176. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Using the DeNitrification-DeComposition (DNDC, version 9.5) model, we investigated the soil organic carbon (SOC) changes from 1980 to 2009 in Eastern China's upland-crop fields in northern Jiangsu Province. A currently most detailed high-resolution soil database, containing 17,024 polygons at a scale of 1:50,000, derived from 983 unique upland soil profiles, was used. A coarser county-level soil database was also used for a pair-wise simulation for comparison. We found that SOC changes modeled with the county-level soil database differ significantly from those with high-resolution soil data, with the deviation ranging from −64% to 8.0% in different counties. This implies that coarse soil data may lead to large biases in SOC simulation. With the high-resolution database, the model estimates a SOC increase of 37.89 Tg C in the top soils (0–50 cm) over the study area of 3.93 Mha for the past three decades, with an average rate of 322 kg C ha −1 year −1 . The SOC accumulation in the study region accounts for 10.2% of annual national carbon sequestration of upland soils, compared with the fraction of 3.7% in the total upland area of China. This underscores its significance to national climate mitigation. The annual SOC change varied between 61 to 519 kg C ha −1 year −1 , mainly driven by the variations in N-fertilizer and manure applications. This study highlights the significance of high-resolution soil databases in quantifying SOC changes. Our high-resolution estimates of SOC will support farming and carbon management in this region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01671987
- Volume :
- 158
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Soil & Tillage Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 112705715
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.still.2016.01.001