期刊
ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/abe492
关键词
agriculture; climate change; resilience; soil organic matter
资金
- Yale School of the Environment Fellowship
- 2017 Soil Health Institute Literature Review grant from the Soil Health Institute
Higher levels of soil organic matter are associated with greater yields, lower yield losses, and lower rates of crop insurance payouts under drought in the United States. The positive effects of soil organic matter on yield resilience are partially explained by its impact on available water capacity and cation exchange capacity, with potential additional mechanisms not fully captured by those metrics. Overall, soil organic matter predicts yield resilience at regional scales and should be considered in agricultural policy and financial planning.
Higher levels of soil organic matter improve soil water retention, meaning they could mitigate agricultural yield losses from drought. Yet evidence to support such claims is mixed and incomplete. Using data from 12 376 county-years in the United States of America, we show that counties with higher soil organic matter are associated with greater yields, lower yield losses, and lower rates of crop insurance payouts under drought. Under severe drought, an increase of 1% soil organic matter was associated with a yield increase of 2.2 +/- 0.33 Mg ha(-1) (32.7 bu ac(-1)) and a 36 +/- 4.76% reduction in the mean proportion of liabilities paid. Similar, yet smaller, effects were found for less severe levels of drought and this effect was reduced as soil clay content increased. Confirmatory pathway analyses indicate that this positive association of soil organic matter and yields under drought is partially explained by positive effects of soil organic matter on available water capacity and cation exchange capacity, but that soil organic matter may be imparting yield protection via mechanisms not fully captured by those metrics. Overall, our results suggest soil organic matter predicts yield resilience at regional scales in the United States. We argue that data on soil organic matter should be used in agricultural policy and financial planning, with our analyses providing quantitative evidence of the co-benefits of soil organic matter believed fundamental to advancing soil health and carbon sequestration initiatives.
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