A high resolution map of French soil organic carbon

Meersmans, Jeroen; Martin, M. P.; Lacarce, E.; De Baets, S.; Jolivet, C.; Boulonne, L.; Lehmann, S.; Saby, N. P. A.; Bispo, A.; Arrouays, D.

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A high resolution map of French soil organic carbon

Meersmans, Jeroen; Martin, M. P.; Lacarce, E. et al.

2012 • In Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 32 (4), p. 841-851

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AIC; AICc; Climate; Land use; Manure; National; Rock fragment content; SOC; Soil texture; Spatial; France

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[en] Soil is amajor carbon pool ruling the global C cycle and in climate change because soil carbon is a source and a sink of atmospheric CO2. Soil organic carbon also controls many beneficial properties such as fertility, aggregate stability and degradation of groundwater pollutants. Thereforemapping soil carbon at landscape scale is needed to define appropriate management that will favour higher soil quality. Actual soil carbon maps of France have a too coarse resolution, i.e. 8 and 12 km, to define efficient land management practices. Therefore, here, we model soil organic carbon in France at a resolution of 250 m. We study the impact of land use, soil type, climate and agro-management on soil organic carbon. We found that the total soil carbon stock in France is about 3.7± 1.3 Pg. Results also show that the precipitation pattern dominates the overall spatial distribution of soil carbon. Land use is the most important factor controlling organic carbon changes at landscape scale. Our high resolution national map of soil organic C will be useful to define land management practices that will improve soil quality. © INRA and Springer-Verlag, France 2012.

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Environmental sciences & ecology

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Meersmans, Jeroen ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département GxABT > Analyse des risques environnementaux

Martin, M. P.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

Lacarce, E.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

De Baets, S.; Earth and Life Institute (ELI), Georges Lemaitre Centre for Earth and Climate Research (TECLIM), Université catholique de Louvain, Place Louis Pasteur 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Jolivet, C.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

Boulonne, L.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

Lehmann, S.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

Saby, N. P. A.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

Bispo, A.; Agriculture and Forestry Department, ADEME, 49004, Angers, cedex 01, France

Arrouays, D.; INRA Orléans, InfoSol Unit, CS 40001Ardon, Avenue de la pomme de pin 2163, 45075 Orléans, cedex 2, France

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English

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A high resolution map of French soil organic carbon

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2012

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Agronomy for Sustainable Development

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1774-0746

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1773-0155

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Springer, Germany

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841-851

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