A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops
2019
Ledo, Alicia | Hillier, Jonathan | Smith, Pete | Aguilera, Eduardo | Blagodatskiy, Sergey | Brearley, Francis Q. | Datta, Ashim | Diaz-Pines, Eugenio | Don, Axel | Dondini, Marta | Dunn, Jennifer | Feliciano, Diana Marisa | Liebig, Mark A. | Lang, Rong | Llorente, Mireia | Zinn, Yuri Lopes | McNamara, Niall | Ogle, Stephen | Qin, Zhangcai | Rovira, Pere | al., et
A global, unified dataset on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes under perennial crops has not existed till now. We present a global, harmonised database on SOC change resulting from perennial crop cultivation. It contains information about 1605 paired-comparison empirical values (some of which are aggregated data) from 180 different peer-reviewed studies, 709 sites, on 58 different perennial crop types, from 32 countries in temperate, tropical and boreal areas; including species used for food, bioenergy and bio-products. The database also contains information on climate, soil characteristics, management and topography. This is the first such global compilation and will act as a baseline for SOC changes in perennial crops. It will be key to supporting global modelling of land use and carbon cycle feedbacks, and supporting agricultural policy development.
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