Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming

By A. Gattinger, Adrian Muller, Matthias Haeni, C. Skinner, A. Fliessbach, Nina Buchmann, P. Mäder, M. Stolze, Pete Smith, N. Scialabba and 1 more. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2012

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Soil Science

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COCOA AND TOTAL SYSTEM YIELDS OF ORGANIC AND CONVENTIONAL AGROFORESTRY VS. MONOCULTURE SYSTEMS IN A LONG-TERM FIELD TRIAL IN BOLIVIA (2016, neutral): “However, most of these data were obtained from trials in the temperate zones (Gattinger et al. , 2012; Mäder et al. , 2002).”
Land‐use intensity and the effects of organic farming on biodiversity: a hierarchical meta‐analysis (2014, background): “An overall evaluation of organic farming in relation to crop yields therefore needs to account for the effects of farming practice on a wider range of environmental factors (Mondelaers, Aertsens & Huylenbroeck 2009; Sandhu, Wratten & Cullen 2010; Gattinger et al. 2012; Bommarco, Kleijn & Potts 2013)”
Ecological intensification of agriculture — sustainable by nature (2014, result): “The ability of ecologically intensive systems to contribute to ecosystem service provision and to system regulation in the face of external shocks such as climate change has been recently reviewed, usually in comparison with conventional systems [11,56–61].”
‘Triple wins’ or ‘triple faults’? Analysing the equity implications of policy discourses on climate-smart agriculture (CSA) (2018, positive): “Estimates showed that nearly three quarters of all agricultural carbon emissions originate in developing countries, and that 70 percent of the agricultural mitigation potential can be realised here (Gattinger et al. 2012).”
Shallow non-inversion tillage in organic farming maintains crop yields and increases soil C stocks: a meta-analysis (2016, methodology): “If soil C was only provided as a concentration, stocks were calculated using the pedotransfer function for bulk density reported by Gattinger et al. (2012) and the value was converted to a stock as described above.”
Cocoa agroforestry systems versus monocultures: a multi-dimensional meta-analysis (2020, methodology): “from the standard error and the number of repetitions), we reassigned it as 1/10 of themean [31].”
Mineral vs. Organic Amendments: Microbial Community Structure, Activity and Abundance of Agriculturally Relevant Microbes Are Driven by Long-Term Fertilization Strategies (2016, background): “…manure-based treatments (FYM and FYM+NPK) compared to the unfertilized soil (Table 1), substantiating that applications of manure over a long period support the buildup of soil organic matter and thus improve soil fertility (Fließbach et al., 2007; Gattinger et al., 2012; Giacometti et al., 2014).”
Organic Farming and Small-Scale Farmers: Main Opportunities and Challenges (2017, background): “In general, OF has the potential for both mitigation 241 and adaptation strategies, both of which enhance the environment’s resilience to climate change 242 (Gattinger et al. 2012; Muller et al. 2013; Skinner et al 2014).”
The green halo: Mechanisms and limits of the eco-label effect (2015, background): “While some view the marketing of organic products as nothing but ‘‘green-washing’’ (Chen & Chang, 2012; Dahl, 2010)—the deceptive promotion of the perception that an organization’s products and policy aims are indeed environmentally friendly—current evidence suggests that eco-friendly agriculture is”
Root biomass in cereals, catch crops and weeds can be reliably estimated without considering aboveground biomass (2018, background): “Soil carbon sequestration plays a potential role in mitigation of climate change and root biomass contributes with a significant carbon input (Gattinger et al., 2012).”
Biochar boosts tropical but not temperate crop yields (2017, background): “Steps which can be taken to account for this bias [36, 37] have been shown to have little effect and sacrifice too much information [38, 39, 40].”