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Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in India: A Synthesis

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Agroforestry systems involving arid, semiarid, subhumid, humid-perhumid, and coastal ecosystems are pervasive in India. The woody perennial components of such systems exhibit tremendous potential for sequestering atmospheric CO2 in both vegetation and soil compartments. Vegetation carbon (C) sequestration aboveground ranged between 0.23 and 23.55 Mg C ha-1 yr-1 and belowground (roots) varied from 0.03 to 5.08 Mg C ha-1 yr-1. The diverse range of ecoclimatic conditions and the disparate array of practices may explain such variations. Soil C stocks (0–100 cm depth) also varied from 10.0 Mg C ha-1 for the Ziziphus mauritiana + grass system in arid western Rajasthan to as high as 229.5 Mg C ha-1 in the multistrata homegarden systems of Mizoram. There is clearly a need to evolve a rigorous set of procedures for estimating biological carbon sequestration potential.

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Abbreviations

AFOLU:

Agriculture, forestry, and other land uses

AFS:

Agroforestry systems

C:

Carbon

CSP:

Carbon sequestration potential

GHG:

Greenhouse gases

MPT:

Multipurpose tree

SCS:

Soil carbon sequestration

SOC:

Soil organic carbon

SOM:

Soil organic matter

UNFCCC:

United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

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Kumar, B.M., Kunhamu, T.K. (2021). Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry Systems in India: A Synthesis. In: Udawatta, R.P., Jose, S. (eds) Agroforestry and Ecosystem Services. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80060-4_15

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