Agroforestry Systems as Strategy to Recover Soil Health and Mitigate Climate Changes
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Soil".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2024 | Viewed by 1140
Special Issue Editors
Interests: carbon and nitrogen cycling in agroecosystems; soil health; soil organic carbon; sustainable agriculture
Interests: land-use change; modeling; soil health; soil organic matter
Interests: agroecosystems; climate change; greenhouse gas emissions; nitrogen and carbon cycling
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a need to develop sustainable agricultural and livestock systems that maintain soil biological processes and are less dependent on external inputs and mechanical cultivation to reduce negative impacts on the environment and conserved soils. Agroforestry systems which consist of growing trees, crops and sometimes animals in synergy create land-use systems structurally and functionally more complex with greater efficiency of resource capture and utilization than traditional land management. They have been adopted due to the need for recovering degraded lands and providing ecosystem services in agriculture.
However, due to the complexity of several arrangements’ components (tree, crops, and pasture), there is a lack of information to ensure the benefits for soil health in several edaphoclimatic zones in the world. In addition, the potential of agroforestry systems to increase soil carbon sequestration and mitigate climate change must be strongly investigated under different scenarios.
In this Special Issue on “Agroforestry Systems as Strategy to Recover Soil Health and Mitigate Climate Changes”, we invite papers that can help us understand topics concerning ecosystem services provided by soil–animal–plant synergies in agroforestry system models in tropical and temperate climate zones.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
- Soil carbon stocks after agroforestry systems introduction;
- Soil health and ecosystem services provided by integrated systems;
- Determining greenhouse gas emissions from animals, plants, and soil;
- Quantification of biomass and litter production as a function of different arrangements;
- Distribution of soil fauna functional groups and microbial community;
- Modeling approaches to investigate agroforestry productivity and soil carbon sequestration.
Prof. Dr. Leidivan Almeida Frazão
Dr. Luiz Fernando Carvalho Leite
Dr. Arlete S. Barneze
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- agrosilvopastoral
- carbon stocks
- GHG emissions
- modeling approaches
- plants
- soil health
