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dc.contributor.authorTuohy, P.
dc.contributor.authorO'Sullivan, L.
dc.contributor.authorFenton, O.
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-18T13:27:59Z
dc.date.available2024-02-18T13:27:59Z
dc.date.issued2021-03
dc.identifier.citationP. Tuohy, L. O'Sullivan, O. Fenton, Field scale estimates of soil carbon stocks on ten heavy textured farms across Ireland, Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 281, 2021, 111903, ISSN 0301-4797, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111903.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11019/3593
dc.descriptionpeer-revieweden_US
dc.description.abstractThe world's soils store vast amounts (≈2,500 GT) of Carbon which acts as a vital sink to counterbalance the effects of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide. There have been fruitful efforts to quantify soil Carbon stocks at national scales, which are required for policy level decisions but lack the high resolution required to support farm specific decisions. It is hypothesised that farm scale evaluations of soils can provide insight that is masked in national scale studies and can allow for spatially explicit management approaches to optimise soil Carbon storage and sequestration, such that it can be prioritized within profitable production systems. The objective of the present study was to estimate Carbon stocks on a range of heavy textured soils at field and farm scale and to quantify Carbon storage relative to national scale estimates. Ten grassland dairy farms (mean area of 52.2 Ha) were surveyed, sampled and classified to determine soil types and quantify soil Carbon stores. The level of Carbon present (mean: 346.0 T/Ha) at these sites was greater than previous averages on such soils quantified at national scale (by a factor of 1.1–3.9 depending on soil type). Furthermore, if Carbon saturation potential was realised, the amount of Carbon stored could be increased by an average of 792.1 T/Ha in each profile (from 346.0 to 1138.1 T/Ha). Current management has fostered the retention of large stores of soil Carbon on such soils/farms which co-exist within highly productive farm systems. As there is a societal demand to retain and enhance soil carbon stores to mitigate climate change, high Carbon soils should be identified and, under appropriate policies, commodified to offer a direct incentive to retain soil Carbon. The value of this resource should be recognised and polices to ensure a spatially explicit approach for soil Carbon management should be adopted.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesJournal of Environmental Management;Vol 281
dc.rights© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttps://www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/*
dc.subjectGHG mitigationen_US
dc.subjectLand managementen_US
dc.subjectSequestrationen_US
dc.subjectScale effecten_US
dc.titleField scale estimates of soil carbon stocks on ten heavy textured farms across Irelanden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111903
dc.source.volume281
dc.source.beginpage111903
refterms.dateFOA2024-02-18T13:28:01Z
dc.source.journaltitleJournal of Environmental Management


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