Regional soil carbon inventories in the Lower Austrian central region and Bohemian massif
Abstract
Our previous investigations indicate substantial regional differences regarding recent (past 30 years) changes of soil organic carbon status of Lower Austrian agricultural soils. While for some regions we could already show substantial increases of soil organic carbon in cultivated and grassland soils, virtually no information is available for the central lowlands and the Bohemian massif of Lower Austria. This project aims at re-collecting topsoils from 300 sites that had been sampled in 1990/91 for the Lower Austrian soil inventory. The re-sampled soil will be analysed for organic carbon along with archived samples from the same location available from the initial sampling campaign. The data will be explored for changes of teh status of organic carbon and discussed in the context of soil health and climate change mitigation potentials.
keywords Soil organic matter Soil Carbon Monitoring Lower Austria
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Project staff
Walter Wenzel
Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr.nat.techn. Walter Wenzel
walter.wenzel@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-91143, 91161
Project Leader
15.09.2021 - 14.12.2023
Henning Schwalm
Dipl.-Ing. Henning Schwalm
henning.schwalm@boku.ac.at
Project Staff
15.09.2021 - 14.12.2023