Project

After Agriculture: the Soil Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agricultural Land Abandonment

Description

Agricultural landscapes undergo significant above- and belowground ecosystem changes following the cessation of intensive cultivation. Improvements in soil health after agricultural land abandonment entail climate change mitigation co-benefits. This project investigates the factors influencing soil carbon sequestration rates on post-agricultural soils at the field, regional, and global scales.

Factors influencing soil organic carbon accumulation in Peninsular Spain.

Active vineyard site in the Penedès (Catalonia, Spain).

Abandoned stone terrace walls and stone huts (Catalonia, Spain).

Active vineyard adjacent to abandoned vineyards undergoing forest regeneration (Catalonia, Spain).

Active vineyards and olive groves in the Penedès (Catalonia, Spain).

Publications

Soil organic carbon accumulation rates on Mediterranean abandoned agricultural lands S.M. Bell, C. Terrer, C. Barriocanal, R.B. Jackson, A. Rosell-Melé (2021). Science of the Total Environment, 759: 143535.

Project dates

June 2018 to May 2022

Funding

María de Maeztu Unit of Excellence 2015 (MDM-2015-0552)

Research area

Keywords

Team members

PhD student

Antoni Rosell Melé

ICREA research professor

César Terrer Moreno

Lawrence Fellow at Lawrence Livermore National Lab

Carles Barriocanal Lozano

GRAM, Universitat de Barcelona

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