Ledo, Alicia; Hillier, Jonathan; Smith, Pete; Aguilera, Eduardo; Blagodatskiy, Sergey; Brearley, Francis Q.; Datta, Ashim; Diaz-Pines, Eugenio; Don, Axel; Dondini, Marta; Dunn, Jennifer; Feliciano, Diana Marisa; Liebig, Mark A.; Lang, Rong; Llorente, Mireia; Zinn, Yuri Lopes; McNamara, Niall 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5143-5819; Ogle, Stephen; Qin, Zhangcai; Rovira, Pere; Rowe, Rebecca ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7554-821X; Vicente-Vicente, José Luis; Whitaker, Jeanette ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8824-471X; Yue, Qian; Zerihun, Ayalsew.
2019
A global, empirical, harmonised dataset of soil organic carbon changes under perennial crops.
Scientific Data, 6, 57.
7, pp.
10.1038/s41597-019-0062-1
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,
bioenergy and bio-products. The database also contains information on climate, soil characteristics,
management and topography. This is the first such global compilation and will act as a baseline for SOC
changes in perennial crops. It will be key to supporting global modelling of land use and carbon cycle
feedbacks, and supporting agricultural policy development.
Available under License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.
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