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Can Animal Manure Be Used to Increase Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Mediterranean as a Mitigation Climate Change Strategy?

In: Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics

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  • Andreas Kamilaris

    (Research Centre On Interactive Media, Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (RISE)
    University of Twente)

  • Immaculada Funes Mesa

    (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology)

  • Robert Savé

    (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology)

  • Felicidad Herralde

    (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology)

  • Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú

    (Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology)

Abstract

Soil organic carbon (SOC) plays an important role on improving soil conditions and soil functions. Increasing land use changes have induced an important decline of SOC content at global scale. Increasing SOC in agricultural soils has been proposed as a strategy to mitigate climate change. Animal manure has the characteristic of enriching SOC, when applied to crop fields, while, in parallel, it could constitute a natural fertilizer for the crops. In this paper, a simulation is performed using the area of Catalonia, Spain as a case study for the characteristic low SOC in the Mediterranean, to examine whether animal manure can improve substantially the SOC of agricultural fields, when applied as organic fertilizers. Our results show that the policy goals of the 4 × 1000 strategy can be achieved only partially by using manure transported to the fields. This implies that the proposed approach needs to be combined with other strategies.

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  • Andreas Kamilaris & Immaculada Funes Mesa & Robert Savé & Felicidad Herralde & Francesc X. Prenafeta-Boldú, 2021. "Can Animal Manure Be Used to Increase Soil Organic Carbon Stocks in the Mediterranean as a Mitigation Climate Change Strategy?," Progress in IS, in: Andreas Kamilaris & Volker Wohlgemuth & Kostas Karatzas & Ioannis N. Athanasiadis (ed.), Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics, pages 227-241, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:prochp:978-3-030-61969-5_16
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-61969-5_16
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