Changes in soil quality and below-ground carbon storage with conversion of traditional agricultural crop lands to bioenergy crop production

Environmental Pollution

Volumn 116, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2002, Pages

  Tolbert, V R ^a   Todd Jr , D E ^a   Mann, L K ^a   Jawdy, C M ^b   Mays, D A ^c   Malik, R ^c   Bandaranayake, W ^d   Houston, A ^e   Tyler, D ^e   Pettry, D E ^f  

^a OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Oak Ridge Institute of Science and Engineering   (United States)

^c ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^f MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioenergy crops; Soil carbon; Soil quality

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CROPS;

BIOENERGY CROP PRODUCTION;

SOILS;

CARBON;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; ENERGY CROP; LAND USE CHANGE; SOIL CARBON; SOIL QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BULK DENSITY; CORN; COTTON; CROP; GRASS; LAND USE; SOIL; WATER QUALITY;

AGRICULTURE; CARBON; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PLANTS, EDIBLE; SOIL; WATER SUPPLY;

GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; LIQUIDAMBAR; PANICUM VIRGATUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0036147118     PISSN: 02697491     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0269-7491(01)00262-7     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Relationship of soil organic matter dynamics to physical protection and tillage
2. Soil aggregation and fungal and bacterial biomass under annual and perennial cropping systems
3. Soil organic carbon and 13C abundance as related to tillage, crop residue, and nitrogen fertilization under continuous corn management in Minnesota
4. Defining soil quality for a sustainable environment
5. Soil health and sustainability: Managing the biotic component of soil quality
6. Soil carbon inventories under a bioenergy crop (switchgrass): Measurement limitations
7. Soil carbon dynamics beneath switchgrass as indicated by stable isotope analysis
8. Trends in wheat yields and soil organic carbon in the permanent rotation trial at the Waite Agricultural Research Institute, South Australia
9. Soil carbon changes associated with short-rotation systems
10. Soil carbon sequestration beneath hybrid poplar plantations in the north central United States
11. Biomass energy production in the United States: An overview
12. Carbon in forest soils - Research needs
13. Measuring the environmental effects of converting cropland to short-rotation woody crops: A research approach
14. Soil quality - A concept, definition, and framework for evaluation
15. Effects of energy forestry on soils
16. Use of cover corps in short rotation hardwood plantations to control erosion
17. Changes in soil carbon storage after cultivation
18. Soil sustainability in renewable biomass plantings
19. Soil carbon sequestration and land-use change; processes and potential
20. The role of soil organic matter in maintaining soil quality in continuous cropping systems
21. Environmental consequences of intensive harvesting
22. Environmental effects of growing woody crops on agricultural land: First year effects on erosion and water quality
23. Environmental enhancement of US biomass crop technologies: Research results to date
24. Increasing below-ground carbon sequestration with conversion of agricultural lands to production of bioenergy crops
25. Soil and water quality implications of production of herbaceous and woody energy crops
26. Soil and water quality aspects of herbaceous and woody energy crop production: Lessons from research-scale comparisons with agricultural crops
27. Short-rotation woody crop supply systems in the United States: What do we know and what do we need to know?
28. Agricultural site productivity: Principles derived from long-term experiments and their implications for intensively managed forests
29. Potential of short rotation wood crops as a fiber and energy source in the US