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Global Pattern and Change of Cropland Soil Organic Carbon During 1901-2010: Roles of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Land Use and Management University of Kentucky UKnowledge Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications Plant and Soil Sciences 3-2020 Global Pattern and Change of Cropland Soil Organic Carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Land Use and Management Wei Ren University of Kentucky, [email protected] Kamaljit Banger University of Guelph, Canada Bo Tao University of Kentucky, [email protected] Jia Yang Mississippi State University Yawen Huang University of Kentucky, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_facpub See next page for additional authors Part of the Geography Commons, Plant Sciences Commons, Soil Science Commons, and the Sustainability Commons Right click to open a feedback form in a new tab to let us know how this document benefits ou.y Repository Citation Ren, Wei; Banger, Kamaljit; Tao, Bo; Yang, Jia; Huang, Yawen; and Tian, Hanqin, "Global Pattern and Change of Cropland Soil Organic Carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Land Use and Management" (2020). Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications. 152. https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_facpub/152 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Plant and Soil Sciences at UKnowledge. It has been accepted for inclusion in Plant and Soil Sciences Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of UKnowledge. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Global Pattern and Change of Cropland Soil Organic Carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of Climate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Land Use and Management Digital Object Identifier (DOI) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2020.03.001 Notes/Citation Information Published in Geography and Sustainability, v. 1, issue 1. © 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Beijing Normal University This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by- nc-nd/4.0/) Authors Wei Ren, Kamaljit Banger, Bo Tao, Jia Yang, Yawen Huang, and Hanqin Tian This article is available at UKnowledge: https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pss_facpub/152 Geography and Sustainability 1 (2020) 59–69 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Geography and Sustainability journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/geosus Article Global pattern and change of cropland soil organic carbon during 1901-2010: Roles of climate, atmospheric chemistry, land use and management Wei Ren a,∗, Kamaljit Banger b, Bo Tao a, Jia Yang c, Yawen Huang a, Hanqin Tian d,∗ a Department of Plant & Soil Sciences, College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506, USA b Plant Agriculture - University of Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada c Department of Forestry, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762, USA d International Center for Climate and Global Change Research and School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 36849, USA h i g h l i g h t s g r a p h i c a l a b s t r a c t • Century-scale dynamics in global crop- land soil organic carbon (SOC) were sim- ulated • Storage and density of global cropland SOC largely increased during 1901-2010 • Increased SOC from land management partially offset SOC losses caused by cli- mate change a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Soil organic carbon (SOC) in croplands is a key property of soil quality for ensuring food security and agricultural Received 4 February 2020 sustainability, and also plays a central role in the global carbon (C) budget. When managed sustainably, soils may Received in revised form 27 February 2020 play a critical role in mitigating climate change by sequestering C and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions into Accepted 28 February 2020 the atmosphere. However, the magnitude and spatio-temporal patterns of global cropland SOC are far from well Available online 9 March 2020 constrained due to high land surface heterogeneity, complicated mechanisms, and multiple influencing factors. Keywords: Here, we use a process-based agroecosystem model (DLEM-Ag) in combination with diverse spatially-explicit Global cropland gridded environmental data to quantify the long-term trend of SOC storage in global cropland area during 1901- Soil organic carbon 2010 and identify the relative impacts of climate change, elevated CO , nitrogen deposition, land cover change, 2 Climate change and land management practices such as nitrogen fertilizer use and irrigation. Model results show that the total Land management SOC and SOC density in the 2000s increased by 125% and 48.8%, respectively, compared to the early 20 th Process-based modeling century. This SOC increase was primarily attributed to cropland expansion and nitrogen fertilizer use. Factorial analysis suggests that climate change reduced approximately 3.2% (or 2,166 Tg C) of the total SOC over the past 110 years. Our results indicate that croplands have a large potential to sequester C through implementing better land use management practices, which may partially offset SOC loss caused by climate change. 1. Introduction Soil organic carbon (SOC) represents the largest terrestrial C pool ∗ Corresponding authors. ( Jobbágy and Jackson, 2000 ) and a small change in its magnitude E-mail addresses: [email protected] (W. Ren), [email protected] (H. Tian). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geosus.2020.03.001 2666-6839/© 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V. and Beijing Normal University Press (Group) Co., LTD. on behalf of Beijing Normal University. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license. ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) W. Ren, K. Banger and B. Tao et al. Geography and Sustainability 1 (2020) 59–69 can provide significant feedbacks to atmospheric CO2 concentration global croplands during 1901-2010. Specific objectives are to 1) investi- ( Jobbágy and Jackson, 2000 ; Smith et al., 2008 ; Tian et al., 2015 ). The gate the magnitude of and long-term changing trend in SOC storage; 2) croplands account for approximately 10% of the global total SOC, as quantitatively examine the relative contributions of climate change and estimated at a range of 128-165 Pg C (1 Pg C = 10 15 g) ( Watson et al., land use/management practices in the context of global changes; and 3) 2000 ). Generally, average SOC values are relatively lower in croplands identify uncertainties and future needs. This study is built on our pre- than in natural ecosystems as a result of biomass removal/harvest and vious efforts that quantified C dynamics in croplands at regional scales some land management practices such as tillage ( Drewniak et al., 2015 ). (such as China, India, and the United States, see the model description Improving levels of organic C and fostering C sequestration in cropland section). soils could have significant implications not only for food security and soil health ( Six et al., 2004 ; Six et al., 2002 ), but also for achieving 2. Methodology: model, input data and simulation protocol the less than 1.5°C global target of the Paris Climate Agreement. It has been estimated that global croplands could sequester 0.90-1.85 Pg C/yr, 2.1. The Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model and Its Agriculture Module equivalent to 26-53% of the soil carbon sequestration target of 3.5 Pg C/yr that the 4p 1000 Initiative has established for climate mitigation The Dynamic Land Ecosystem Model (DLEM) is a highly integrated, ( Zomer et al., 2017 ). Sustainably managing SOC might be a primary process-based ecosystem model that couples major biogeochemical cy- means for achieving climate-smart agriculture, which aims to ensure cles, water cycle, and vegetation dynamics to make spatially-explicit es- food security, mitigate, and adapt to climate change with minimal ad- timates of water, C, and nitrogen fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems at mul- verse environmental effects ( Bai et al., 2019 ; Branca et al., 2011 ; Huang tiple temporal and spatial scales ( Tian et al., 2010a ; Tian et al., 2010b ). et al., 2018 ; Lipper et al., 2014 ; Ren, 2019 ). Therefore, it is urgent to ad- It consists of five core components, i.e., biophysics, plant physiology, soil vance our current understanding of the magnitude and patterns of crop- biogeochemistry, vegetation dynamics, and land use and management. land SOC as well as their environmental drivers, which is a prerequisite The DLEM model has been widely applied in investigating dynamic re- for achieving the dual benefits of meeting increasing food demand and sponses of terrestrial water, C and nitrogen cycling to multiple global mitigating future climate change ( Lal, 2004 ; Lal et al., 2007 ; Paustian change factors such as climate, atmospheric composition (atmospheric et al., 1997) . CO2 , nitrogen deposition, and tropospheric ozone), land use change, Cropland SOC storage is mainly determined by the balance between and agriculture management practices (e.g., harvest, rotation, irrigation, C inputs in the form of residues and outputs from microbial respira- and fertilizer use) at regional (such as China ( Lu et al., 2012 ; Ren et al., tion ( Davidson and Janssens, 2006 ; Paustian et al., 1997 ). This balance 2007 ; Ren et al., 2012 ; Tian et al., 2011 ), India ( Banger et al., 2015a ; in the C inputs and outputs is modified by changing climate, land-use, Banger et al., 2015b ), Monsoon Asia ( Tian et al., 2011a ), tropical Asia and various agronomic management practices ( Davidson and Janssens, ( Tao et al., 2013 ), the United States ( Chen et al., 2012 ; Ren et al., 2016 ; 2006 ; Regnier et al., 2013 ; Tian et al., 2016 ). For instance, changing Yang et al., 2015b ), and North America ( Tian et al., 2015 a; Xu et al., climatic factors (e.g., temperature, precipitation, heatwave) reduce 2012 ; Xu et al., 2010 ) and global scales ( Pan et al., 2014 ; Tian et al., cropland productivity and stimulate microbial activity, which may re- 2015 ; Yang et al., 2015a ; Zhang et al., 2016 ).
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