Carbon storage and sequestration in tropical mountain forests and their dependence on elevation and temperature are not well understood. In an altitudinal transect study in the South Ecuadorian Andes, we tested the hypotheses that (i) aboveground net primary production (ANPP) decreases continuous...
Moser, G
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Leuschner, C
,
Hertel, D
,
Graefe, S.
,
Soethe, N
,
Iost, S
,
[Elevation effects on the carbon budget of tropical mountain forests (S Ecuador): The role of the belowground compartment]
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Elevation effects on the carbon budget of tropical mountain forests (S Ecuador): The role of the belowground compartment
The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from the University of Saskatchewan as tuition for the first author and the Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) via the strategic grant from Dr. Vic Timmer for the woodlot research in Tanzania. Also, extra thanks ...
Osei, A.
,
Kimaro, Anthony A.
,
Peak, D.
,
Gillespie, A.
,
VanRees, K.
,
[Soil carbon stocks in planted woodlots and Ngitili systems in Shinyanga, Tanzania.]
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Soil carbon stocks in planted woodlots and Ngitili systems in Shinyanga, Tanzania.
United Nations Environment Programme
,
International Resource Panel
,
[资源效率与气候变化:面向低碳未来的材料利用效率策略, L’efficacité des ressources face au changement climatique: Stratégies d’efficacité dans l’utilisation des matières premières pour un avenir à faibles émissions de carbone, РЕСУРСОЭФФЕКТИВНОСТЬ И ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ КЛИМАТА: Стратегии повышения эффективности использования материалов в интересах построения низкоуглеродного общества, EFICIENCIA DE LOS RECURSOS Y CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO: Estrategias de Eficiencia Material para un Futuro con Bajas Emisiones de Carbono]
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[Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future - [Factsheet]]
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Resource Efficiency and Climate Change: Material Efficiency Strategies for a Low-Carbon Future - [Factsheet]
Agroforestry systems and tree cover on agricultural land make an important contribution to climate change mitigation, but are not systematically accounted for in either global carbon budgets or national carbon accounting. This paper assesses the role of trees on agricultural land and their signif...
Zomer, Robert J.
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Neufeldt, Henry
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Xu, Jianchu
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Ahrends, Antje
,
Bossio, Deborah A.
,
Trabucco, Antonio
,
Noordwijk, Meine van
,
Wang, Mingcheng
,
[Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets]
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Global tree cover and biomass carbon on agricultural land: The contribution of agroforestry to global and national carbon budgets
Quintero, Marcela
,
Comerford, N.B.
,
[Effects of conservation tillage on total and aggregated soil organic carbon in the Andes]
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Effects of conservation tillage on total and aggregated soil organic carbon in the Andes
Conservation agriculture (CA), comprising minimum soil disturbance, retention of crop residues and crop diversification, is widely promoted for reducing soil degradation and improving agricultural sustainability. It is also claimed to mitigate climate change through soil carbon sequestration: we ...
Powlson, David S.
,
Stirling, Clare M.
,
Thierfelder, Christian
,
White, Rodger P.
,
Jat, Mangi Lal
,
[Does conservation agriculture deliver climate change mitigation through soil carbon sequestration in tropical agro-ecosystems?]
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Does conservation agriculture deliver climate change mitigation through soil carbon sequestration in tropical agro-ecosystems?
Controlled grazing management is considered as an effective strategy to enhance soil carbon sequestration, but empirical evidences are scarce. Particularly, the role of livestock exclusion related to soil carbon sequestration is not well understood in arid and semiarid savannas of Africa. We inve...
Aynekulu, Ermias
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Mekuria, Wolde M.
,
Tsegaye, D.
,
Feyissa, K.
,
Angassa, A.
,
Leeuw, Jan de
,
Shepherd, Keith D.
,
[Long-term livestock exclosure did not affect soil carbon in southern Ethiopian rangelands]
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Long-term livestock exclosure did not affect soil carbon in southern Ethiopian rangelands
Recent studies show that carbon
sequestered by trees on agricultural
land is not well accounted for. If it was,
researchers argue in a new study: “Global
Tree Cover and Biomass Carbon on
Agricultural Land: The contribution
of agroforestry to global and national
carbon budgets,” total carbon estim...
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
,
[Big win: Trees on agricultural land sink four times more carbon]
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Big win: Trees on agricultural land sink four times more carbon
Carbon sequestration by soils can
mitigate climate change; the stock of
carbon in the soil is twice that in the
atmosphere. Small changes in soil carbon
can have a big impact on atmospheric
carbon - according to recent analysis
by scientists at CIAT and The Nature
Conservancy
International Center for Tropical Agriculture
,
[Big win: Soil Organic Carbon: absorbing carbon back into the soil]
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Big win: Soil Organic Carbon: absorbing carbon back into the soil