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On the rebound: soil organic carbon stocks can bounce back to near forest levels when agroforests replace agriculture in southern India [1]

Tropical agroforestry has an enormous potential to sequester carbon while simultaneously producing agricultural yields and tree products. The amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestered is however influenced by the type of the agroforestry system established, the soil and climatic conditions and management. In this regional scale study, we utilized a chronosequence approach to investigate how SOC stocks changed when the original forests are converted to agriculture, and then subsequently to four different agroforestry systems (AFSs): homegarden, coffee, coconut and mango. In total we established 224 plots in 56 plot clusters across four climate zones in southern India.

Original Source [2]

Publication Date: 
21/08/2015
H. C. Hombegowda [3], O. van Straaten [4], M. Köhler & et al [5]
SOIL [6]
2
871–902
Tags:
Agroforestry [7], Soil Capability [8], Carbon Sequestration [9], Coffee [10], Mango [11], Coconut [12], Home Gardens [13], Land Use [14], Kerala [15], Karnataka [16], Andhra Pradesh [17], India [18], Agriculture [19]

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