Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems
Agroforestry systems comprise trees and crops, or trees and pastures within the same field. Globally, they cover approximately 1 billion hectares of land and contribute to the livelihoods of over 900 million people. Agroforestry systems have the capacity to sequester large quantities of carbon (C) i...
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| author | Rémi Cardinael Viviane Umulisa Anass Toudert Alain Olivier Louis Bockel Martial Bernoux |
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| description | Agroforestry systems comprise trees and crops, or trees and pastures within the same field. Globally, they cover approximately 1 billion hectares of land and contribute to the livelihoods of over 900 million people. Agroforestry systems have the capacity to sequester large quantities of carbon (C) in both soil and biomass. However, these systems have not yet been fully considered in the approach to C accounting developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, largely due to the high diversity of agroforestry systems and scarcity of relevant data. Our literature review identified a total of 72 scientific, peer-reviewed articles associated with biomass C storage (50) and with soil organic carbon (SOC) (122), containing a total of 542 observations (324 and 218, respectively). Based on a synthesis of the reported observations, we are presenting a set of Tier 1 coefficients for biomass C storage for each of the eight main agroforestry systems identified, including alley cropping, fallows, hedgerows, multistrata, parklands, shaded perennial-crop, silvoarable and silvopastoral systems, disaggregated by climate and region. Using the same agroforestry classification, we are presenting a set of stock change factors ( F _LU ) and SOC accumulation/loss rates for three main land use changes (LUCs): cropland to agroforestry; forest to agroforestry; and grassland to agroforestry. Globally, the mean SOC stock change factors (± confidence intervals) were estimated to be 1.25 ± 0.04, 0.89 ± 0.07, and 1.19 ± 0.10, for the three main LUCs, respectively. However, these average coefficients hide huge disparities across and within different climates, regions, and types of agroforestry systems, highlighting the necessity to adopt the more disaggregated coefficients provided herein. We encourage national governments to synthesize data from local field experiments to generate country-specific factors for more robust estimation of biomass and SOC storage. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6da1cff21c81431f9426e81242cee31b2023-08-09T14:40:06ZengIOP PublishingEnvironmental Research Letters1748-93262018-01-01131212402010.1088/1748-9326/aaeb5fRevisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systemsRémi Cardinael0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9924-3269Viviane Umulisa1Anass Toudert2Alain Olivier3Louis Bockel4Martial Bernoux5CIRAD, UPR AIDA, F-34398 Montpellier, France; AIDA, Univ Montpellier , CIRAD, Montpellier, France; University of Zimbabwe , Crop Science Department, Box MP167, Mt. Pleasant, Harare, ZimbabweFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, Italy; University of Bonn , Department of Earth Sciences, GermanyFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, ItalyUniversité Laval , Département de phytologie, Québec, QC G1V 0A6, CanadaFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, ItalyFood and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, ItalyAgroforestry systems comprise trees and crops, or trees and pastures within the same field. Globally, they cover approximately 1 billion hectares of land and contribute to the livelihoods of over 900 million people. Agroforestry systems have the capacity to sequester large quantities of carbon (C) in both soil and biomass. However, these systems have not yet been fully considered in the approach to C accounting developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, largely due to the high diversity of agroforestry systems and scarcity of relevant data. Our literature review identified a total of 72 scientific, peer-reviewed articles associated with biomass C storage (50) and with soil organic carbon (SOC) (122), containing a total of 542 observations (324 and 218, respectively). Based on a synthesis of the reported observations, we are presenting a set of Tier 1 coefficients for biomass C storage for each of the eight main agroforestry systems identified, including alley cropping, fallows, hedgerows, multistrata, parklands, shaded perennial-crop, silvoarable and silvopastoral systems, disaggregated by climate and region. Using the same agroforestry classification, we are presenting a set of stock change factors ( F _LU ) and SOC accumulation/loss rates for three main land use changes (LUCs): cropland to agroforestry; forest to agroforestry; and grassland to agroforestry. Globally, the mean SOC stock change factors (± confidence intervals) were estimated to be 1.25 ± 0.04, 0.89 ± 0.07, and 1.19 ± 0.10, for the three main LUCs, respectively. However, these average coefficients hide huge disparities across and within different climates, regions, and types of agroforestry systems, highlighting the necessity to adopt the more disaggregated coefficients provided herein. We encourage national governments to synthesize data from local field experiments to generate country-specific factors for more robust estimation of biomass and SOC storage.https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaeb5fcarbon sequestrationemission factorclimate change mitigationland use change |
| spellingShingle | Rémi Cardinael Viviane Umulisa Anass Toudert Alain Olivier Louis Bockel Martial Bernoux Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems Environmental Research Letters carbon sequestration emission factor climate change mitigation land use change |
| title | Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| title_full | Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| title_fullStr | Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| title_full_unstemmed | Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| title_short | Revisiting IPCC Tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| title_sort | revisiting ipcc tier 1 coefficients for soil organic and biomass carbon storage in agroforestry systems |
| topic | carbon sequestration emission factor climate change mitigation land use change |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaeb5f |
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