A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops.
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SUBMITTER: Ledo A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6514006 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
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A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops.
Ledo Alicia A Hillier Jonathan J Smith Pete P Aguilera Eduardo E Blagodatskiy Sergey S Brearley Francis Q FQ Datta Ashim A Diaz-Pines Eugenio E Don Axel A Dondini Marta M Dunn Jennifer J Feliciano Diana Marisa DM Liebig Mark A MA Lang Rong R Llorente Mireia M Zinn Yuri Lopes YL McNamara Niall N Ogle Stephen S Qin Zhangcai Z Rovira Pere P Rowe Rebecca R Vicente-Vicente José Luis JL Whitaker Jeanette J Yue Qian Q Zerihun Ayalsew A
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A global, unified dataset on Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) changes under perennial crops has not existed till now. We present a global, harmonised database on SOC change resulting from perennial crop cultivation. It contains information about 1605 paired-comparison empirical values (some of which are aggregated data) from 180 different peer-reviewed studies, 709 sites, on 58 different perennial crop types, from 32 countries in temperate, tropical and boreal areas; including species used for food, bi ...[more]
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