SOILVEG: IMPROVING SOIL CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE USE IN ORGANIC CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR VEGETABLE PRODUCTION THROUGH INTRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT OF AGRO-ECOLOGICAL SERVICE CROPS Ghent University
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Storage of soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential function of ecosystems underpinning the delivery of multiple services to society: e.g. the production of food, wood, bio-energy and water and the regulation of the global climate, nutrient availability and the hydrological cycle. Whereas SOC content (%) is part of the routine measurements in general-purpose soil survey projects and in monitoring schemes of agricultural and forest soils, the ...
European and Flemish climate-change policies aim to enhance carbon (C) storage in soils of conservation areas, mainly in forests and peatlands. Soil degradation however may impact C persistence in soils, and therefore the sustainability of this policy effort, by making soil C stocks more vulnerable to climatic anomalies, shocks and disturbances. Most relevant degradation processes are acidification in forests and drainage legacy in peatlands. ...
European and Flemish climate-change policies aim to enhance carbon (C) storage in soils of conservation areas, mainly in peatlands. Soil degradation however may impact C persistence in soils, and therefore the sustainability of this policy effort, by making soil C stocks more vulnerable to climatic anomalies, shocks and disturbances. Most relevant degradation processes is drainage legacy in peatlands. They have been shown to affect soil C ...
Agriculture in Flanders and many areas in Europe needs to rapidly evolve because of the occurrence of more frequent droughts. An obvious strategy is to ensure that more water infiltrates and gets stored in soil and groundwater in rain periods to use that water in periods of drought. One way to do so is by the installation of small adjustable weirs in agricultural drainage ditches to raise the drainage level in periods when there are no field ...