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Carbon stock in agroforestry coffee plantations with different shade trees in Villa Rica, Peru

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Agroforestry has become an important land use type in Central and South America. It is important to study agroforestry systems because of their ability to sequester carbon. This study investigates plantations that are located in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, and it evaluates the aboveground and soil carbon storage of agroforestry coffee plantations with different dominant shading trees, including Inga spp., Pinus spp. (both 15 years old) and Eucalyptus spp. (7 years old). These agroforestry systems were also compared to a coffee plantation without shading trees. Biomass and carbon were estimated for trees and coffee shrubs using allometric equations. Soil (within depth of 30 cm) and litter carbon were estimated using field sampling and laboratory analyses. The total carbon stock for the site dominated by Inga spp. was 119.9 ± 19.5 Mg ha−1, while for the sites dominated by Pinus spp. it was 177.5 ± 14.1 Mg ha−1 and for the site dominated by Eucalyptus spp. it was 162.3 ± 18.2 Mg ha−1. In the Sun coffee site the ecosystem carbon stock was 99.7 ± 17.2 Mg ha−1. Most carbon was fixed in the soil compartment (57–99 %), followed by aboveground tree biomass (23–32 %), tree belowground biomass (8–9 %), coffee shrubs (0.2–2 %) and litter (1 %).

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Acknowledgments

This study was mainly supported by the Internal Grant Agency (IGA 29/2011) of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Institutional research plan MSM6215648902—Forest and Wood: the support of functionally integrated forest management and use of wood as a renewable raw material, project N29/2011 and TA 02020867 Use of the new organic mineral stimulators and natural organic materials for revitalisation of the forest ecosystems influenced by biotic and abiotic impacts. Additional financial support was obtained by Jorge Mattos Olavarria, General Manager of MapGeosolution and the POPRAR project CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0303. We are grateful to the Marín and Carrillo families and Ms. Selena Contreras for their help and for letting us conduct this study on their plantations.

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  1. Department of Forest Botany, Dendrology and Geobiocoenology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, Brno, 61 300, Czech Republic

    Lenka Ehrenbergerová & Hana Habrová

  2. IFER – Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Areál 1. jílovské a. s., Jílové u Prahy, 254 01, Czech Republic

    Emil Cienciala

  3. Department of Geology and Pedology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, Brno, 61 300, Czech Republic

    Aleš Kučera

  4. MapGeoSolutions, Jr. Rodolfo Rutté 145 Magdalena del Mar, Lima, 17, Peru

    Ludivine Guy

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Ehrenbergerová, L., Cienciala, E., Kučera, A. et al. Carbon stock in agroforestry coffee plantations with different shade trees in Villa Rica, Peru. Agroforest Syst 90, 433–445 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-015-9865-z

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