Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services

Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz; Carlos de Moraes Sá, João; Mishra, Umakant; Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana; Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida; Inagaki, Thiago Massao; Romaniw, Jucimare; de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir; Briedis, Clever

doi:10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.068

Title: Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services

Abstract

We report that currently the land use and land use change (LULUC) emits 1.3 ± 0.5 Pg carbon (C) year^-1, equivalent to 8% of the global annual emissions. The objectives of this study were to quantify (1) the impact of LULUC on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a subtropical region and (2) the role of conservation agriculture to mitigate GHG emissions promoting ecosystem services. We developed a detailed IPCC Tier 2 GHG inventory for the Campos Gerais region of southern Brazil that has large cropland area under long-term conservation agriculture with high crop yields. The inventory accounted for historical and current emissions from fossil fuel combustion, LULUC and other minor sources. We used Century model to simulate the adoption of conservation best management practices, to all croplands in the region from 2017 to 2117. Our results showed historical (1930 – 2017) GHG emissions of 412 Tg C, in which LULUC contributes 91% (376±130 Tg C), the uncertainties ranged between 13 and 36%. Between 1930 and 1985 LULUC was a major source of GHG emission, however from 1985 to 2015 fossil fuel combustion became the primary source of GHG emission. Forestry sequestered 52 ± 24 Tg C in 0.6 Mha inmore »« less

Authors:

Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz ^[1]; Carlos de Moraes Sá, João ^[2]; Mishra, Umakant ^[3]; Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana ^[4]; Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida ^[4]; Inagaki, Thiago Massao ^[5]; Romaniw, Jucimare ^[1]; de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir ^[6]; Briedis, Clever ^[7]

Agronomy Graduate Program at Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Paraná (Brazil)
Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Paraná (Brazil)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Agronomy Undergraduate Program at Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Paraná (Brazil)
Technical University of Munich, Institute for Advanced Studies (Germany)
Universidade Estadual de Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, Paraná (Brazil)
Embrapa Instrumentation, R. XV de Novembro, São Carlos, SP (Brazil)

Publication Date:: Wed Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018

Research Org.:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)

OSTI Identifier:: 1488535

Alternate Identifier(s):: OSTI ID: 1777580

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 482292/2012-1; PA 965/12; 99999.006792/2014–06

Resource Type:: Accepted Manuscript

Journal Name:: Environmental Pollution

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 243; Journal Issue: Part B; Journal ID: ISSN 0269-7491

Publisher:: Elsevier

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; Agriculture; IPCC Tier 2; century model; conservation best management practices; soil organic carbon; subtropical region

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                    Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz, Carlos de Moraes Sá, João, Mishra, Umakant, Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana, Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida, Inagaki, Thiago Massao, Romaniw, Jucimare, de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir, and Briedis, Clever. Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services.  United States: N. p., 2018. 
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                    Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz, Carlos de Moraes Sá, João, Mishra, Umakant, Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana, Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida, Inagaki, Thiago Massao, Romaniw, Jucimare, de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir, & Briedis, Clever. Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services.  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.068

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                    Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz, Carlos de Moraes Sá, João, Mishra, Umakant, Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana, Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida, Inagaki, Thiago Massao, Romaniw, Jucimare, de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir, and Briedis, Clever. Wed .  
"Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services".  United States.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.068.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1488535.

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@article{osti_1488535,

  title        = {Soil carbon inventory to quantify the impact of land use change to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions and ecosystem services},

  author       = {Potma Gonçalves, Daniel Ruiz and Carlos de Moraes Sá, João and Mishra, Umakant and Ferreira Furlan, Flávia Juliana and Ferreira, Lucimara Aparecida and Inagaki, Thiago Massao and Romaniw, Jucimare and de Oliveira Ferreira, Ademir and Briedis, Clever},

  abstractNote = {We report that currently the land use and land use change (LULUC) emits 1.3 ± 0.5 Pg carbon (C) year-1, equivalent to 8% of the global annual emissions. The objectives of this study were to quantify (1) the impact of LULUC on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in a subtropical region and (2) the role of conservation agriculture to mitigate GHG emissions promoting ecosystem services. We developed a detailed IPCC Tier 2 GHG inventory for the Campos Gerais region of southern Brazil that has large cropland area under long-term conservation agriculture with high crop yields. The inventory accounted for historical and current emissions from fossil fuel combustion, LULUC and other minor sources. We used Century model to simulate the adoption of conservation best management practices, to all croplands in the region from 2017 to 2117. Our results showed historical (1930 – 2017) GHG emissions of 412 Tg C, in which LULUC contributes 91% (376±130 Tg C), the uncertainties ranged between 13 and 36%. Between 1930 and 1985 LULUC was a major source of GHG emission, however from 1985 to 2015 fossil fuel combustion became the primary source of GHG emission. Forestry sequestered 52 ± 24 Tg C in 0.6 Mha in a period of 47 years (1.8 Tg C Mha-1 year-1) and no-till sequestered 30.4 ± 24 Tg C in 2 Mha in a period of 32 years (0.5 Tg C Mha-1 year-1) being the principal GHG mitigating activities in the study area. Lastly, the model predictions showed that best management practices have the potential to mitigate 13 years of regional emissions (330 Tg C in 100 years) or 105 years of agriculture, forestry and livestock emissions (40 Tg C in 100 years) making the agriculture sector a net carbon (C) sink and promoting ecosystem services.},

  doi          = {10.1016/j.envpol.2018.07.068},

  journal      = {Environmental Pollution},

  number       = Part B,

  volume       = 243,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Wed Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018},

  month        = {Wed Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2018}

}

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