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How can straw incorporation management impact on soil carbon storage? A meta-analysis

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Abstract

Straw incorporation (SI) is a common practice in China and has important implications for agricultural sustainability. This study aimed to quantitatively summarise the response of top soil (0–20 cm) carbon (C) to SI under different agricultural management regimes. Results indicated that compared with straw removal (SR), SI significantly increased soil C storage by 12 %. Moreover, incorporation of chopped straw with tillage treatment (ploughing and rotary tillage) increased C storage compared to unchopped straw without tillage treatment. SI implementation with upland cropping, in the northwest and northeast resulted in higher C storage compared with rice cropping, and in the northern and southern regions. Changes in soil C were observed based on SI variables, including tillage and straw amounts in fine-textured soils, however straw amount rather than tillage treatment exhibited a greater influence on soil C in coarse-textured soils. We concluded SI implementation with increased amounts of chopped straw for a longer duration was favourable to soil C sequestration in Chinese croplands. Furthermore, we estimated if SI was popularised across all of China’s agricultural regions, soil C sequestration potential would reach 48.2 ~ 56.2 Tg C year−1. SI practices should therefore be encouraged.

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We are grateful to the authors of the papers included in this study, including Deshui Tan, Jing Yang, Huaping Duan, Guanghua Wang and Huiping Qu etc. for providing the data for our study. We also acknowledge Yafei Yuan for constructive comments and suggestions on this paper. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 71003092), the ‘Strategic Priority Research Program-Climate Change: Carbon Budget and Relevant Issues’ of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA05050602 and XDA05060102), and the Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (Grant No. 2010CB833504-03).

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Lu, F. How can straw incorporation management impact on soil carbon storage? A meta-analysis. Mitig Adapt Strateg Glob Change 20, 1545–1568 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-014-9564-5

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