Biomass production in agroforestry and forestry systems on salt-affected soils in South Asia: Exploration of the GHG balance and economic performance of three case studies

Wicke, Birka; Smeets, E.M.W.; Akanda, Razzaque; Stille, Leon; Singh, Ranjay K.; Awan, Abdul Rasul; Mahmood, Khalid; Faaij, André

doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2013.05.060

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“…Forestry and agroforestry systems on salt affected soils or biosaline (agroforestry systems) may be an alternative land use option as some tree species are less susceptible to soil salinity/sodicity, and their cultivation can help regenerate these soils [5]. Examples of species tolerant to soil salinity, soil sodicity, or both are Acacia nilotica, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus tereticornis, and Prosopis juliflora [29].…”

Section: Agroforestry Systems For Salt-affected Soilsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The greenhouse gas balance of biosaline (agro) forestry on different types of saltaffected soils in South Asia and their economic performance (in terms of the net present value (NPV) and the production costs (COP) has been studied [5]. The biosaline (agro) forestry system in different conditions included 1) a ricetree agroforestry plantation on coastal saline soils in Bangladesh, 2) a ricewheat tree agroforestry plantation on waterlogged, saltaffected soils in India, and 3) a forestry plantation on salinesodic soils in Pakistan [5]. Biosaline AFsystems combined the advantages of AFsystems with the utilization of halophytes (salt tolerant trees) in combination with the conventional food crops, or halophytic fodder crops and grasses [5].…”

Section: Biodrainage For Reclamation Of Water-logged Areasmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Biomanagement of saline areas can help in mitigation of rising atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations through carbon sequestration in the plantsoil system. Estimates of biomass production and the rates of carbon sequestration and exploration of greenhouse gas balance [5] can be useful to understand the potential of agroforestry in climate change mitigation.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Bio-management Options for Ecosystem Services, Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Adaptation in Saline Environment

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Gupta

Kataria³

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IJECC

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Nearly one billion hectares of arid and semiarid areas of the world are salt affected and remain barren due to salinity or water scarcity. These lands can be utilized by adopting appropriate planting techniques and integrating trees with tolerant crops, forage grasses, oil yielding crops, aromatic and medicinal plants. Biosaline agroforestry provides various ecosystem services such as the improved soil fertility, carbon sequestration, and biomass production. Provisioning services relating to biomass production have been well studied in different biosaline agroforestry. Tree plantations and agroforestry enrich the soil in organic matter and exert a considerable ameliorative effect on soil properties. The soil microbial biomass serves as a useful indicator of soil improvement under salt stress. By integrating trees with the naturally occurring grassland systems on highly sodic soils, the soil organic carbon content increased from 5.3 Mg ha−1 (in sole grass) to 13.6, 10.9, and 14.2 Mg ha−1, when Dalbergia sissoo, Acacia nilotica, and Prosopis juliflora trees were introduced with grass. The strip-plantations of clonal Eucalyptus tereticornis sequestered 15.5 t ha–1 carbons during the first rotation of 5 years and 4 months. The soils of biosaline agroforestry could store 25.9–99.3 Mg C ha−1 in surface 0.3 m soil. Maintaining the stores and sink of carbon in agroforestry could play a key role in climate change mitigation as well as help in adaption changing environmental conditions.

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Section: Agroforestry Systems For Salt-affected Soilsmentioning

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Section: Biodrainage For Reclamation Of Water-logged Areasmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Bio-management Options for Ecosystem Services, Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Adaptation in Saline Environment

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“…Although the salt tolerance of wheat, rice and maize are higher among cereals, those tolerance are quite lower than the plants in natural systems (Munns 2005;Shahbaz and Ashraf 2013). However, forestry is widely used on salt-affected soils because of their higher salt tolerance (Wicke et al 2013). Agroforest systems provided an opportunity to limit salinity-related land degradation and enhance agricultural sustainability (George et al 2012;Wicke et al 2013), as the growth of trees can be integrated with agriculture in saltaffected soils to take advantage of ecosystem services (Singh 2017).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“…However, forestry is widely used on salt-affected soils because of their higher salt tolerance (Wicke et al 2013). Agroforest systems provided an opportunity to limit salinity-related land degradation and enhance agricultural sustainability (George et al 2012;Wicke et al 2013), as the growth of trees can be integrated with agriculture in saltaffected soils to take advantage of ecosystem services (Singh 2017). Accordingly, the planting of native trees has been considered a restoration measure to increase biodiversity in agroforestry (Teuscher et al 2016).…”

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Water sources effects on soil salinity and biomass production of agriculture and agroforest systems in raised fields

Zhang

et al. 2020

Journal of Plant Interactions

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This study investigates the sources of water under four modes, namely, normal fields, Raised Fields, single agriculture in Raised Fields, and agroforest system in Raised Fields, by using a combination of δ 18 O, δ 2 H and δ 13 C and their effects on crop yield and water use efficiency. The results show that the soil electrical conductivity of Raised Fields during summer maize seasons was lower than that during winter wheat seasons, and that in the marginal regions was higher than in the central regions, because of the Water Sources. Under agroforest conditions in Raised Fields, Soil Salinity can be reduced because approximately 10% of the water originates from tree trunks. The biomass yield and intrinsic water use efficiency of winter crops under agroforest was 15.1% and 5.5% higher than that under single agriculture, respectively. Thus, soil salinization can be reduced and productivity can be increased by controlling the Water Sources in ecosystems.

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Biomass Resources, Worldwide

Faaij¹

2018

Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology

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Biomass production in agroforestry and forestry systems on salt-affected soils in South Asia: Exploration of the GHG balance and economic performance of three case studies

Cited by 34 publications

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Bio-management Options for Ecosystem Services, Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Adaptation in Saline Environment

Bio-management Options for Ecosystem Services, Carbon Sequestration and Climate Change Adaptation in Saline Environment

Water sources effects on soil salinity and biomass production of agriculture and agroforest systems in raised fields

Biomass Resources, Worldwide

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