Projected changes in mineral soil carbon of European croplands and grasslands, 1990-2080

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 11; no. 12; pp. 2141 - 2152
• Main Authors: Smith, J, Smith, P, Wattenbach, M, Zaehle, S, Hiederer, R, Jones, R.J.A, Montanarella, L, Rounsevell, M.D.A, Reginster, I, Ewert, F
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Science Ltd 01.12.2005; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Agricultural land; agricultural land-use; Agricultural production; agricultural soils; agricultural technology change; Carbon; carbon sequestration; Climate change; Climate effects; Climate models; Climatic data; co2 emissions; crop yield; croplands; crops; environmental models; Europe; future scenarios; Global climate; grassland soils; Grasslands; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Kyoto Protocol; Land use; land use change; long-term experiments; LPJ model; mathematical models; Organic carbon; Primary production; primary productivity; rain; regional-scale; Rothamsted carbon model; sequestration; simulation models; soil organic carbon; soil organic grasslands; soil organic matter; Soil sciences; Soil temperature; Soils; terrestrial carbon; Europe; LPJ model; agricultural technology change; Europe; carbon; croplands; land-use change; soil organic grasslands; Rothamsted carbon model; climate change

We present the most comprehensive pan‐European assessment of future changes in cropland and grassland soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks to date, using a dedicated process‐based SOC model and state‐of‐the‐art databases of soil, climate change, land‐use change and technology change. Soil carbon change...