Climate-smart agriculture and soil C sequestration in Brazilian Cerrado: a systematic review
Dener Márcio da Silva Oliveira, Rose Luiza Moraes Tavares, Arcângelo Loss, B. E. Madari, Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri, Bruno José Rodrígues Alves, Marcos Gervásio Pereira, Maurício Roberto Cherubin
Abstract
Climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices, mainly no-tillage (NT), cover cropping (CC), soil fertilization with organic amendments (OA), and crop-livestock (CL) and crop-livestock-forestry (CLF) systems, has been widely adopted in areas from Brazilian Cerrado. The CSA may partly offset former soil C losses and contribute to climate change mitigation. However, contradictory findings brought uncertainties about the effect of CSA on soil C. Here, by a systematic review of 87 papers and using 621 data pairs, we provided a pervasive biome-scale analysis [...]