Soil Carbon Stocks and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation of Agriculture in the Brazilian Cerrado—A Review
2023
Arminda Moreira de Carvalho | Douglas Rodrigues de Jesus | Thais Rodrigues de Sousa | Maria Lucrécia Gerosa Ramos | Cícero Célio de Figueiredo | Alexsandra Duarte de Oliveira | Robélio Leandro Marchão | Fabiana Piontekowski Ribeiro | Raíssa de Araujo Dantas | Lurdineide de Araújo Barbosa Borges
New agricultural practices and land-use intensification in the Cerrado biome have affected the soil carbon stocks. A major part of the native vegetation of the Brazilian Cerrado, a tropical savanna-like ecoregion, has been replaced by crops, which has caused changes in the soil carbon (C) stocks. To ensure the sustainability of this intensified agricultural production, actions have been taken to increase soil C stocks and mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. In the last two decades, new agricultural practices have been adopted in the Cerrado region, and their impact on C stocks needs to be better understood. This subject has been addressed in a systematic review of the existing data in the literature, consisting of 63 articles from the Scopus database. Our review showed that the replacement of Cerrado vegetation by crop species decreased the original soil C stocks (depth 0–30 cm) by 73%, with a peak loss of 61.14 Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>. However, when analyzing the 0–100 cm layer, 52.4% of the C stock data were higher under cultivated areas than in native Cerrado soils, with a peak gain of 93.6 Mg ha<sup>−1</sup>. The agricultural practices implemented in the Brazilian Cerrado make low-carbon agriculture in this biome possible.
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