Strauss et al. (2024): Carbon farming for climate change mitigation and ecosystem services – Potentials and influencing factors
Veronika Strauss, Carsten Paul, Cenk Dönmez, Benjamin Burkhard IN: Journal of Environmental Management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123253
The authors analyzed six carbon farming measures on cropland in the European temperate zone: (1) cover cropping, (2) introducing legumes or semi-perennial crops into crop rotations, (3) conversion to short rotation coppice, (4) agroforestry, (5) afforestation of marginal cropland, and (6) partial rewetting of drained organic soils. Through a structured literature review, they derived on-site climate change mitigation potentials, impacts on the supply of ecosystem services, and economic trade-offs, as well as influencing factors causing spatial heterogeneities.