Agroforestry systems: Meta‐analysis of soil carbon stocks, sequestration processes, and future potentials

• Published in: Land degradation & development Vol. 29; no. 11; pp. 3886 - 3897
• Main Authors: Shi, Lingling, Feng, Wenting, Xu, Jianchu, Kuzyakov, Yakov
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2018
• Subjects: Agricultural land; Agroforestry; agroforestry management; Alley cropping; Biodiversity; Carbon; carbon sequestration; carbon sinks; Crop growth; cropland; Ecosystem services; Ecosystem stability; Ecosystems; Erosion control; forests; home gardens; homegardens; inventories; Land degradation; magnesium; Meta-analysis; Microclimate; Moisture content; monitoring; Nutrient cycles; Pasture; pastures; Remote sensing; Service restoration; silvopastoral systems; Soil analysis; soil carbon; Soil erosion; Soil fertility; Soil investigations; Soil stability; Soil water; Soil water storage; Subsoils; subtropics; sustainable land use; Topsoil; Trees; Tropical environments; tropics; Windbreaks

Agroforestry (AF) has the potential to restore degraded lands, provide a broader range of ecosystem goods and services such as carbon (C) sequestration and high biodiversity, and increase soil fertility and ecosystem stability through additional C input from trees, erosion prevention, and microclima...