A review of transformative strategies for climate mitigation by grasslands

Gomez-Casanovas, Nuria; Blanc-Betes, Elena; Moore, Caitlin E.; Bernacchi, Carl J.; Kantola, Ilsa; DeLucia, Evan H.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149466

Title: A review of transformative strategies for climate mitigation by grasslands

Journal Article · Wed Aug 04 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · Science of the Total Environment

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149466· OSTI ID:1977625

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^[1]; Moore, Caitlin E. ^[2]; Bernacchi, Carl J. ^[3];

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Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); Univ. of Western Australia (Australia)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States); US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA), Urbana, IL (United States). Agricultural Research Service ARS)

Grasslands can significantly contribute to climate mitigation. However, recent trends indicate that human activities have switched their net cooling effect to a warming effect due to management intensification and land conversion. This indicates an urgent need for strategies directed to mitigate climate warming while enhancing productivity and efficiency in the use of land and natural (nutrients, water) resources. Here, in this work, we examine the potential of four innovative strategies to slow climate change including: 1) Adaptive multi-paddock grazing that consists of mimicking how ancestral herds roamed the Earth; 2) Agrivoltaics that consists of simultaneously producing food and energy from solar panels on the same land area; 3) Agroforestry with a reverse phenology tree species, Faidherbia (Acacia) albida, that has the unique trait of being photosynthetically active when intercropped herbaceous plants are dormant; and, 4) Enhanced Weathering, a negative emission technology that removes atmospheric CO₂ from the atmosphere. Further, we speculate about potential unknown consequences of these different management strategies and identify gaps in knowledge. We find that all these strategies could promote at least some of the following benefits of grasslands: CO₂ sequestration, non-CO₂ GHG mitigation, productivity, resilience to climate change, and an efficient use of natural resources. However, there are obstacles to be overcome. Mechanistic assessment of the ecological, environmental, and socio-economic consequences of adopting these strategies at large scale are urgently needed to fully assess the potential of grasslands to provide food, energy and environmental security.

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Research Organization:: South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)

Grant/Contract Number:: FG36-08GO88073

OSTI ID:: 1977625

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1862532

Journal Information:: Science of the Total Environment, Vol. 799, Issue C; ISSN 0048-9697

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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