Malou, Oscar Pascal Moulin, Patricia Chevallier, Tiphaine Masse, Dominique Vayssières, Jonathan Badiane-Ndour, Ndèye Yacine Tall, Laure Thiam, Abou Chapuis-Lardy, Lydie
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Regional Environmental Change
Soil organic carbon (SOC) is essential for the productivity of agroecosystems and for mitigating climate change. Because the SOC contents of sandy soils are usually small, the effects of agricultural management upon SOC stocks in such soils have been insufficiently studied. In West sub-arid Africa, the coarse-textured soils (mostly Arenosols) are d...
Anand, Jatin Gosain, A. K. Khosa, R.
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Regional Environmental Change
Under climate change and pressure from human activities, extreme flood events are becoming a significant concern. The study involves setting up a coupled hydroclimate-hydrodynamic models over the Ganga River Basin by coupling the CORDEX regional climate models to the physically based Soil Water Assessment Tool-based hydrological model and MIKE 21C-...
Jourdan, Marion Cordonnier, Thomas Dreyfus, Philippe Riond, Catherine de Coligny, François Morin, Xavier
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Regional Environmental Change
Climate change affects forest ecosystem processes and related services due to climate variability. These might affect ecosystem functioning, especially productivity. Regarding management issues, mixed stands are considered a relevant option to maintain forest cover and ecosystem services under climate change. However, the possibility to maintain th...
Bertsch-Hoermann, Bastian Egger, Claudine Gaube, Veronika Gingrich, Simone
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Regional Environmental Change
Mountain agroecosystems deliver essential ecosystem services to society but are prone to climate change as well as socio-economic pressures, making multi-functional land systems increasingly central to sustainable mountain land use policy. Agroforestry, the combination of woody vegetation with crops and/or livestock, is expected to simultaneously i...
Matsuura, Shoji Kazama, Reiko Hibino, Hiroshi Funatsu, Masato Hojito, Masayuki
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Regional Environmental Change
We conducted field experiments in nine managed grassland sites spanning annual temperatures of 5.8–16.3 °C for 5 years to investigate the effects of farmyard manure (FYM) application and environmental conditions on soil organic carbon (SOC) stock changes. Experimental plots were established with three (zero, low, and high) levels of continuous FYM ...
Ishtiaque, Asif Eakin, Hallie Vij, Sumit Chhetri, Netra Rahman, Feisal Huq, Saleemul
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Regional Environmental Change
Climate change adaptation requires the engagement of multiple actors in different sectors and at various levels of governance. The different roles played by policy actors and their interactions shape the process of adaptation governance. Nevertheless, to date, there has been limited attention paid to how the structure of relations and their associa...
Rolinski, Susanne Prishchepov, Alexander V. Guggenberger, Georg Bischoff, Norbert Kurganova, Irina Schierhorn, Florian Müller, Daniel Müller, Christoph
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Regional Environmental Change
Changes in land use and climate are the main drivers of change in soil organic matter contents. We investigated the impact of the largest policy-induced land conversion to arable land, the Virgin Lands Campaign (VLC), from 1954 to 1963, of the massive cropland abandonment after 1990 and of climate change on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks in stepp...
Drexler, Sophie Gensior, Andreas Don, Axel
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Regional Environmental Change
Hedgerows are a traditional form of agroforestry in the temperate climate zone. The establishment of hedgerows may be a promising strategy to promote carbon (C) sinks for climate change mitigation. We therefore conducted a meta-analysis compiling data from 83 sites on soil organic carbon (SOC) stocks beneath hedgerows in comparison with adjacent cr...
Henderson, James Godar, Javier Frey, Gabriel Ponzoni Börner, Jan Gardner, Toby
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Regional Environmental Change
Our study analyzes potential agro-industrial soybean expansion dynamics and is the first to project soybean expansion Paraguayan Chaco. This biodiverse region, home to the greatest diversity of indigenous groups in Paraguay, has recently seen some of the world’s highest deforestation rates, losing 3.4 Mha of forestland between 2001 and 2014. Soy, a...
Bernal-Ibáñez, Alejandro Gestoso, Ignacio Wirtz, Peter Kaufmann, Manfred Serrão, Ester A. Canning-Clode, João Cacabelos, Eva
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Regional Environmental Change
Species of the genera Cystoseira, Ericaria, Gongolaria, and Sargassum (family Sargassaceae) are key components of the Mediterranean-Atlantic marine forests, essential for biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Populations of these foundational species are particularly vulnerable to anthropogenic impacts, likely to be intensified under future scena...
