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Modelling SOC response to land use change and management practices in sugarcane cultivation in South-Central Brazil

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Background and aims

To study the impact of land use change (LUC) from native vegetation and pasture to sugarcane cultivation as well as to evaluate the effect of different management practices on long-term SOC dynamics using the CENTURY ecosystem model.

Methods

A soil data set of 85 study areas including sugarcane, pasture and annual crops from eleven counties distributed over the south-central region of Brazil was used for model validation and three future scenarios of sugarcane management were simulated: i) green harvesting (SC1); ii) green harvesting plus organic amendments (SC2) and iii) green harvesting plus low N inputs (SC3). Sugarcane harvest with burning was simulated as the baseline system (SCB).

Results

The model performance was good (R2 = 0.79) in replicating measured C stocks as well as reflecting the main trends of C stock changes due to LUC. Long-term simulations suggested that changes in the sugarcane harvest from burning to green harvesting would increase soil C stocks by an average of 0.21 Mg ha−1 year−1. The potential of C accumulation was projected to be higher when vinasse and filter cake are added to the soil, varying between 0.34 and 0.37 Mg C ha−1 year−1 in SC3 and SC2 respectively.

Conclusions

The Century model can be used as tool to study the impact of different soil managements in the SOC dynamics in sugarcane. C losses due to the conversion from pasture to sugarcane can be totally restored after 24, 17 and 18 years under SC1, SC2 and SC3, respectively.

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Acknowledgments

This study was supported by São Paulo Research Foundation – FAPESP (2011/ 07105-7) and Shell Global Solutions (UK). We thank the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - CNPq for a graduate scholarship awarded to A.M Silva-Olaya.

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  1. University of the Amazon, Street 17, Diagonal 17, Cr. 3F, Florencia, Colombia

    Adriana M. Silva-Olaya

  2. “Luiz de Queiroz” College of Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Av. Paduas Dias, Piracicaba, Brazil

    Carlos E. P. Cerri

  3. Natural Resources Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

    Stephen Williams & Keith Paustian

  4. Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture, University of São Paulo, Av. Centenário, Piracicaba, 303, Brazil

    Carlos C. Cerri

  5. Shell Technology Centre Houston, 3333 Highway 6 South, Houston, TX, 77082, USA

    Christian A. Davies

  6. Department of Soil and Crop Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA

    Keith Paustian

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Silva-Olaya, A.M., Cerri, C.E.P., Williams, S. et al. Modelling SOC response to land use change and management practices in sugarcane cultivation in South-Central Brazil. Plant Soil 410, 483–498 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11104-016-3030-y

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