Evidence of limited carbon sequestration in soils under no-tillage systems in the Cerrado of Brazil

Corbeels, Marc; Leandro Marchão, Robelio; Siqueira Neto, Marcos; Garcia Ferreira, Eliann; Emöke Madari, Beata; Scopel, Eric; Rodrigues Brito, Osmar

doi:10.1038/srep21450

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Evidence of limited carbon sequestration in soils under no-tillage systems in the Cerrado of Brazil

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Marc Corbeels

Robelio Leandro Marchão

Marcos Siqueira Neto

Abstract

Abstract The Brazilian government aims at augmenting the area cropped under no-tillage (NT) from 32 to 40 million ha by 2020 as a means to mitigate CO 2 emissions. We estimated soil carbon (C) sequestration under continuous NT systems in two municipalities in the Goiás state that are representative ...

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