Agroforestry olive orchards for soil organic carbon storage: Case of Saiss, Morocco.

ABSTRACT: Soil supports numerous ecosystem services and contributes to climate change mitigation. Several publications have appeared in recent years considering soil as a persistent carbon sink and reported that agroforestry systems have a potential for soil organic carbon storage. However, there is still little knowledge about the soil organic carbon storage in olive orchards and its role in climate change mitigation. Therefore, soil samples collected from topsoil (0-30 cm) and subsoil (30-60 cm) in 57 different olive orchards provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the role of several factors (tree ages, planting density, farming system type and soil depth) in driving soil organic carbon storage variability in agroforestry olive orchards compared to olive trees in monoculture system across

SUBMITTER: Zayani I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10730749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature