10.5071/18THEUBCE2010-VP1.3.10
Curt, M.D.
M.D.
Curt
Sanz, M.
M.
Sanz
Aguado, P.L.
P.L.
Aguado
Sánchez, G.
G.
Sánchez
Fernández, J.
J.
Fernández
Carbon Stored in the Root System and Carbon Returned to the Soil: the Case of Cynara Energy Crop
ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
2010
Conference paper
Biomass
2010
en
978-88-89407-56-1
4 Pages
application/pdf
Proceedings of the 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 3-7 May 2010, pp. 444-447
Energy plant species like Cynara cardunculus L. can contribute to sequester significant amounts of carbon in their belowground biomass and increase the soil carbon content. In this work soil carbon changes are followed up in an experiment designed to simulate the effect of leaving the belowground biomass in the soil after the removal of this energy crop. Moreover the contribution of cynara belowground biomass to carbon storage is studied over two growing seasons in other experiment. The use of the ratio root/shoot to estimate cynara carbon stock is discussed as well.
Proceedings of the 18th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, 3-7 May 2010, Lyon, France, pp. 444-447