DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004654
Scopus记录号: 2-s2.0-84885460862
论文题名: Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
作者: Schierhorn F ; , Müller D ; , Beringer T ; , Prishchepov A ; V ; , Kuemmerle T ; , Balmann A
刊名: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
ISSN: 8866236
出版年: 2013
卷: 27, 期: 4 起始页码: 1175
结束页码: 1185
语种: 英语
英文关键词: Carbon sequestration
; Food security
; Land abandonment
; Land use change
; Russia
; Soviet Union
Scopus关键词: Carbon sequestration
; Food security
; Land abandonments
; Land-use change
; Russia
; Soviet Union
; Carbon
; Food supply
; Forestry
; abandoned land
; agricultural land
; agricultural management
; carbon sequestration
; estimation method
; food production
; mapping
; quantitative analysis
; spatiotemporal analysis
; USSR
英文摘要: Widespread cropland abandonment occurred after the collapse of socialism across the former Soviet Union, but the rates and spatial patterns of abandoned lands are not well known. As a result, the potential of this region to contribute to global food production and estimates of the carbon sink developing on currently idle lands are highly uncertain. We developed a spatial allocation model that distributes yearly and subnational sown area statistics to the most agriculturally suitable plots. This approach resulted in new, high-resolution (1 km2) annual time series of cropland and abandoned lands in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus from 1990 to 2009. A quantitative validation of the cropland map confirms the reliability of this data set, especially for the most important agricultural areas of the study region. Overall, we found a total of 87 Mha of cropland and 31 Mha of abandoned cropland in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus combined, suggesting that abandonment has been severely underestimated in the past. The abandonment rates were highest in European Russia. Feeding our new map data set into the dynamic vegetation model LPJmL revealed that cropland abandonment resulted in a net carbon sink of 470 TgC for 1990 to 2009. Carbon sequestration was generally slow in the early years after abandonment, but carbon uptake increased significantly after approximately 10 years. Recultivation of older abandoned lands would be associated with high carbon emissions and lead to substantial amounts of carbon not being sequestered in vegetation formations currently developing on idle croplands. Our spatially and temporally explicit cropland abandonment data improve the estimation of trade-offs involved in reclaiming abandoned croplands and thus in increasing agricultural production in this globally important agricultural region. ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Citation statistics:
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标识符: http://119.78.100.158/handle/2HF3EXSE/77557
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作者单位: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Central and Eastern Europe (IAMO), Theodor-Lieser-Str. 2, Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, DE-06120, Germany; Department of Geography, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Earth System Analysis, Potsdam, Germany
Recommended Citation:
Schierhorn F,, Müller D,, Beringer T,et al. Post-Soviet cropland abandonment and carbon sequestration in European Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus[J]. Global Biogeochemical Cycles,2013-01-01,27(4)