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A ten-fold increase compared with current cost-effective capacities would make them highly competitive. Within bioenergy policies, emphasis has been put on biofuels for transportation as this sector is fast-growing and represents a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Compared with fossil fuels, biofuel combustion can emit less greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle, considering that part of the emitted returns to the atmosphere where it was fixed from by photosynthesis in the first place. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is commonly used to assess the potential environmental impacts of biofuel chains, notably the impact on global warming. This tool, whose holistic nature is fundamental to avoid pollution trade-offs, is a standardised methodology that should make comparisons between biofuel and fossil fuel chains objective and thorough. However, it is a complex and time-consuming process, which requires lots of data, and whose methodology is still lacking harmonisation. Hence the life-cycle performances of biofuel chains vary widely in the literature. Furthermore, LCA is a site- and time- independent tool that cannot take into account the spatial and temporal dimensions of emissions, and can hardly serve as a decision-making tool either at local or regional levels. Focusing on greenhouse gases, emission factors used in LCAs give a rough estimate of the potential average emissions on a national level. However, they do not take into account the types of crop, soil or management practices, for instance. Modelling the impact of local factors on the determinism of greenhouse gas emissions can provide better estimates for LCA on the local level, which would be the relevant scale and degree of reliability for decision-making purposes. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of the processes involved, most notably emissions, is still needed to definitely improve the accuracy of LCA. Perennial crops are a promising option for biofuels, due to their rapid and efficient use of nitrogen, and their limited farming operations. However, the main overall limiting factor to biofuel development will ultimately be land availability. Given the available land areas, population growth rate and consumption behaviours, it would be possible to reach by 2030 a global 10% biofuel share in the transport sector, contributing to lower global greenhouse gas emissions by up to (IEA, 2006), provided that harmonised policies ensure that sustainability criteria for the production systems are respected worldwide. Furthermore, policies should also be more integrative across sectors, so that changes in energy efficiency, the automotive sector and global consumption patterns converge towards drastic reduction of the pressure on resources. Indeed, neither biofuels nor other energy source or carriers are likely to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic pressure on resources in a range that would compensate for this pressure growth. Hence, the first step is to reduce this pressure by starting from the variable that drives it up, i.e. anthropic consumptions.", "keywords": ["effet de serre", "BIOFUELS;ENERGY CROPS;PERENNIALS;LCA;GREENHOUSE GASES;CLIMATE CHANGE;POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS;BIOENERGY POTENTIAL;LAND-USE CHANGE;NITROUS OXIDE;CARBON DIOXIDE;AGRICULTURAL PRATICES \u00a0;AGRONOMIE;", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "12. Responsible consumption", "dioxyde de carbone", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "biomasse", "pratique culturale", "\u00e9nergie", "2. 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Fifty six Charolais bulls (259\u00a0\u00b1\u00a09.4\u00a0d of age and 339\u00a0\u00b1\u00a08.2\u00a0kg live weight (LW)) were allocated randomly to one of two diets and blocked with 4 replicate pens/diet based on LW and age, and fattened for up to 18 months. Both treatments included barley straw with the appropriate concentrate mixture rich in fibre or starch and fat. The concentrate mixture and barley straw were available ad libitum, and the intake ratio (870:130; dry matter (DM) basis) for the concentrate mixture and barley straw was similar for both diets. Methane production was determined for each bull for 5\u00a0d using the sulfur hexafluoride tracer gas method at the beginning (24\u00a0d on diet\u00a0\u00b1\u00a03.4), middle (120\u00a0d\u00a0\u00b1\u00a08.2), and end (228\u00a0d\u00a0\u00b1\u00a011.1) of the fattening period. Feed intake was measured daily and bulls were weighed every 15\u00a0d. Ruminal fluid samples were collected on the last day of each CH4 measurement period by rumenocentesis and measured for pH and concentrations of volatile fatty acids (VFA). Bulls fed SL had lower DM, organic matter and gross energy intake (P This paper is part of the special issue entitled: Greenhouse Gases in Animal Agriculture \u2013 Finding a Balance between Food and Emissions, Guest Edited by T.A. McAllister, Section Guest Editors; K.A. Beauchemin, X. Hao, S. McGinn and Editor for Animal Feed Science and Technology, P.H. Robinson.", "keywords": ["effet de serre", "bovin", "b\u0153uf", "ruminant", "taureau charolais", "lin", "engraissement", "630", "starch and fat rich diet", "gaz", "feculent;taureau charolais", "[SDV.SA.SPA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Animal production studies", "graine", "2. 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The sites include awide range ofmanagement regimes (rotational grazing, continuous grazing andmowing), the three main types of managed grasslands across Europe (sown, intensive permanent and semi-natural grassland) and contrasted nitrogen fertilizer supplies. At all sites, the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of CO2 was assessed using the eddy covariance technique.N2Oemissions weremonitored using various techniques (GC-cuvette systems, automated chambers and tunable diode laser) and CH4 emissions resulting from enteric fermentation of the grazing cattle were measured in situ at four sites using the SF6 tracer method. Hence, when expressed in CO2-C equivalents, emissions of N2O and CH4 resulted in a 19% offset of the NEE sink activity. 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Agroforestry practices may also promote mineral N fertilization and the use of N2-fixing legumes that favor the emission of non-CO2 greenhouse gases (GHG) (N2O and CH4). The present study evaluates the net GHG balance in two adjacent coffee plantations, both highly fertilized (250 kg N ha-1 year-1): a monoculture (CM) and a culture shaded by the N2-fixing legume tree species Inga densiflora (CIn). C stocks, soil N2O emissions and CH4 uptakes were measured during the first cycle of both plantations. During a 3-year period (6-9 years after the establishment of the systems), soil C in the upper 10 cm remained constant in the CIn plantation (+0.09 \u00b1 0.58 Mg C ha-1 year-1) and decreased slightly but not significantly in the CM plantation (-0.43 \u00b1 0.53 Mg C ha-1 year-1). Aboveground carbon stocks in the coffee monoculture and the agroforestry system amounted to 9.8 \u00b1 0.4 and 25.2 \u00b1 0.6 Mg C ha-1, respectively, at 7 years after establishment. C storage rate in the phytomass was more than twice as large in the CIn compared to the CM system (4.6 \u00b1 0.1 and 2.0 \u00b1 0.1 Mg C ha-1 year-1, respectively). Annual soil N2O emissions were 1.3 times larger in the CIn than in the CM plantation (5.8 \u00b1 0.5 and 4.3 \u00b1 0.3 kg N-N2O ha-1 year-1, respectively). The net GHG balance at the soil scale calculated from the changes in soil C stocks and N2O emissions, expressed in CO2 equivalent, was negative in both coffee plantations indicating that the soil was a net source of GHG. Nevertheless this balance was in favor of the agroforestry system. The net GHG balance at the plantation scale, which includes additionally C storage in the phytomass, was positive and about 4 times larger in the CIn (14.59 \u00b1 2.20 Mg CO2 eq ha-1 year-1) than in the CM plantation (3.83 \u00b1 1.98 Mg CO2 eq ha-1 year-1). Thus converting the coffee monoculture to the coffee agroforestry plantation shaded by the N2-fixing tree species I. densiflora would increase net atmospheric GHG removals by 10.76 \u00b1 2.96 Mg CO2 eq ha-1 year-1 during the first cycle of 8-9 years.", "keywords": ["P33 - Chimie et physique du sol", "570", "571", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "F08 - Syst\u00e8mes et modes de culture", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1920", "stockage", "Funders: EU CASCA project", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24345", "01 natural sciences", "630", "agroforestry", "leguminous tree", "soil organic matter", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_7427", "andosol", "gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1721", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1666", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_1301", "Inga", "syst\u00e8me de culture", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_35657", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "agroforesterie", "2. 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This work reviewed seven important European LCA studies in a sensitivity analysis approach in order to get a better understanding of the roots of such a debate for three major biofuels in European production: rape methyl ester and ethanol from wheat and sugar beet. Global trends and variability of energy and GHG balances were depicted and completed with a sensitivity analysis carried out for each methodological and data parameter, which allowed making recommendations on the carrying out of LCA in a policy-making or a biofuels comparison context. Methodological choices, and especially allocation rule, appeared as key elements for results variation with influences on balances up to 149%; system expansion approach was identified as the most relevant rule since it integrates the market potential and the environmental interest of by-products promotion, which was pointed out as a crucial point for biofuels sustainability. The influence of local specificity for cultivation data was evaluated up to 167%, which puts too large geographical coverage in question. Modelling uncertainties due to N2O emissions from soils showed influences from 17 to 46%, which represents a crucial challenge for research and for LCA results accuracy. Approximations evaluation pointed out the need to integrate agricultural machinery into the assessment. Finally, land-use issue revealed its dramatic importance for LCA results and the need to define explicit scenarios for land-use alternatives.", "keywords": ["[SDV.BIO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biotechnology", "330", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_24420", "P06 - Sources d'\u00e9nergie renouvelable", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_37938", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_890", "\u00e9thanol", "02 engineering and technology", "7. Clean energy", "01 natural sciences", "630", "12. Responsible consumption", "11. 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In this paper we provide a detailed analysis of the iLUC effect, and further address the issues of deforestation, irrigation water use, and crop price increases due to expanding biofuel acreage. We use GLOBIOM \u2013 an economic partial equilibrium model of the global forest, agriculture, and biomass sectors with a bottom-up representation of agricultural and forestry management practices. The results indicate that second generation biofuel production fed by wood from sustainably managed existing forests would lead to a negative iLUC factor, meaning that overall emissions are 27% lower compared to the \u201cNo biofuel\u201d scenario by 2030. The iLUC factor of first generation biofuels global expansion is generally positive, requiring some 25 years to be paid back by the GHG savings from the substitution of biofuels for conventional fuels. Second generation biofuels perform better also with respect to the other investigated criteria; on the condition that they are not sourced from dedicated plantations directly competing for agricultural land. If so, then efficient first generation systems are preferable. Since no clear technology champion for all situations exists, we would recommend targeting policy instruments directly at the positive and negative effects of biofuel production rather than at the production itself.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "CHANGEMENT D'USAGE DES SOLS", "2. Zero hunger", "[SDV.SA] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "330", "0211 other engineering and technologies", "BIOFUELS", "MODELLING", "GAZ A EFFET DE SERRE", "02 engineering and technology", "15. Life on land", "7. Clean energy", "6. Clean water", "12. Responsible consumption", "13. Climate action", "11. 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La carte ainsi produite, en suivant les sp\u00e9cifications d\u00e9cid\u00e9es par cette instance, a \u00e9t\u00e9 int\u00e9gr\u00e9e \u00e0 la carte mondiale des stocks de carbone. Elle exploite une pr\u00e9c\u00e9dente production r\u00e9alis\u00e9e dans le cadre du programme Global Soil Map (Mulder et al. 2016) et r\u00e9sulte d\u2019un travail de cartographie num\u00e9rique par mod\u00e9lisation r\u00e9alis\u00e9 \u00e0 partir des donn\u00e9es ponctuelles issues des deux programmes nationaux IGCS et RMQS du GIS Sol. La carte transmise \u00e0 la FAO estime sur une grille de 1 km de r\u00e9solution les stocks de carbone sur 30 cm. Elle fournit des indications pr\u00e9cieuses quant \u00e0 la distribution spatiale et la variabilit\u00e9 des stocks de carbone dans les sols fran\u00e7ais, avec toutefois des zones o\u00f9 les estimations pr\u00e9sentent de forts niveaux d\u2019incertitude, notamment en r\u00e9gion montagneuse. Ce travail confirme les pr\u00e9c\u00e9dentes publications nationales puisque les stocks les plus faibles sont observ\u00e9s en Languedoc-Roussillon (r\u00e9gion fortement viticole et caract\u00e9ris\u00e9e par un climat chaud et des sols peu \u00e9pais) et dans quelques zones de culture tr\u00e8s intensive (Beauce Chartraine, Nord). Les stocks de carbone faibles \u00e0 moyens (40-50 t/ha) sont caract\u00e9ristiques des sols des grandes plaines de culture intensive de France ainsi que des sols limoneux comme, par exemple, le grand Bassin parisien, une partie du Bassin aquitain, le Toulousain et le sillon Rhodanien. Les stocks de carbone moyennement \u00e9lev\u00e9s (50-70 t/ha) sont caract\u00e9ristiques des grandes r\u00e9gions foresti\u00e8res ou fourrag\u00e8res de France (Bretagne, Est, Massif central, Normandie) et les stocks de carbone les plus \u00e9lev\u00e9s correspondent \u00e0 des situations climatiques (sols situ\u00e9s en altitude), min\u00e9ralogiques (sols volcaniques du Massif central) ou hydriques extr\u00eames (marais de l\u2019Ouest, delta du Rh\u00f4ne).", "keywords": ["Earth and Environmental Science", "effet de serre", "horizons de surface", "sol", "Soils and soil sciences", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Soil Sciences", "France", "carbone", "Environmental Research", "Natural Sciences", "stock de carbone organique", "Geosciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Martin, Manuel", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.15454/JCONRJ"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.15454/JCONRJ", "name": "item", "description": "10.15454/JCONRJ", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.15454/JCONRJ"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2019-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:33Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-02-10", "title": "Biofuels, Greenhouse Gases And Climate Change. A Review", "description": "Biofuels are fuels produced from biomass, mostly in liquid form, within a time frame sufficiently short to consider that their feedstock (biomass) can be renewed, contrarily to fossil fuels. This paper reviews the current and future biofuel technologies, and their development impacts (including on the climate) within given policy and economic frameworks. Current technologies make it possible to provide first generation biodiesel, ethanol or biogas to the transport sector to be blended with fossil fuels. Still under-development 2nd generation biofuels from lignocellulose should be available on the market by 2020. Research is active on the improvement of their conversion efficiency. A ten-fold increase compared with current cost-effective capacities would make them highly competitive. Within bioenergy policies, emphasis has been put on biofuels for transportation as this sector is fast-growing and represents a major source of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Compared with fossil fuels, biofuel combustion can emit less greenhouse gases throughout their life cycle, considering that part of the emitted CO2 returns to the atmosphere where it was fixed from by photosynthesis in the first place. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is commonly used to assess the potential environmental impacts of biofuel chains, notably the impact on global warming. This tool, whose holistic nature is fundamental to avoid pollution trade-offs, is a standardised methodology that should make comparisons between biofuel and fossil fuel chains objective and thorough. However, it is a complex and time-consuming process, which requires lots of data, and whose methodology is still lacking harmonisation. Hence the life-cycle performances of biofuel chains vary widely in the literature. Furthermore, LCA is a site- and timeindependent tool that cannot take into account the spatial and temporal dimensions of emissions, and can hardly serve as a decision-making tool either at local or regional levels. Focusing on greenhouse gases, emission factors used in LCAs give a rough estimate of the potential average emissions on a national level. However, they do not take into account the types of crop, soil or management practices, for instance. Modelling the impact of local factors on the determinism of greenhouse gas emissions can provide better estimates for LCA on the local level, which would be the relevant scale and degree of reliability for decision-making purposes. Nevertheless, a deeper understanding of the processes involved, most notably N2O emissions, is still needed to definitely improve the accuracy of LCA. Perennial crops are a promising option for biofuels, due to their rapid and efficient use of nitrogen, and their limited farming operations. However, the main overall limiting factor to biofuel development will ultimately be land availability. Given the available land areas, population growth rate and consumption behaviours, it would be possible to reach by 2030 a global 10% biofuel share in the transport sector, contributing to lower global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 1 GtCO2 eq.year\u22121 (IEA, 2006), provided that harmonised policies ensure that sustainability criteria for the production systems are respected worldwide. Furthermore, policies should also be more integrative across sectors, so that changes in energy efficiency, the automotive sector and global consumption patterns converge towards drastic reduction of the pressure on resources. Indeed, neither biofuels nor other energy source or carriers are likely to mitigate the impacts of anthropogenic pressure on resources in a range that would compensate for this pressure growth. Hence, the first step is to reduce this pressure by starting from the variable that drives it up, i.e. anthropic consumptions.", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences", "AGRICULTURAL PRATICES", "P05 - Ressources \u00e9nerg\u00e9tiques et leur gestion", "P06 - Sources d'\u00e9nergie renouvelable", "NITROUS OXIDE", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "CLIMATE CHANGE", "BIOFUELS", "710", "02 engineering and technology", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16181", "7. Clean energy", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2570", "land-use change", "CARBON DIOXIDE", "11. Sustainability", "0202 electrical engineering", " electronic engineering", " information engineering", "gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_34841", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_2018", "\u00e9nergie renouvelable", "POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FRAMEWORKS", "2. 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Climate action", "http://aims.fao.org/aos/agrovoc/c_16526"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal.science/cirad-00749753/file/Article_ASD.2010.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1051/agro/2009039"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Agronomy%20for%20Sustainable%20Development", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "name": "item", "description": "10.1051/agro/2009039", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1051/agro/2009039"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:18:57Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2013-03-07", "title": "Selection Of Appropriate Calculators For Landscape-Scale Greenhouse Gas Assessment For Agriculture And Forestry", "description": "This letter is intended to help potential users select the most appropriate calculator for a landscape-scale greenhouse gas (GHG) assessment of activities for agriculture and forestry. Eighteen calculators were assessed. These calculators were designed for different aims and to be used in different geographical areas and they use slightly different accounting methodologies. The classification proposed is based on the main aim of the assessment: raising awareness, reporting, project evaluation or product assessment. When the aims have been clearly formulated, the most suitable calculator can be selected from the comparison tables, taking account of the geographical area and the scope of the calculation as well as the time and skills required for the calculation. The main issues for interpreting GHG assessments are discussed, highlighting the difficulty of comparing the results obtained from different calculators, mainly owing to differences in scope, calculation methods and reporting units. A major problem is the poor accounting for land use change; the calculators are usually able to account satisfactorily for other emission sources. One of the main challenges at landscape-scale level is to produce a realistic assessment of the various production systems as the uncertainty levels are very high. The results should always give some indication of the link between GHG emissions and the productivity of the area, although no single indicator is able to encompass all the services produced by agriculture and forestry (e.g. food, goods, landscape value and revenue).", "keywords": ["550", "[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]", "Science", "QC1-999", "indicateur environnemental", "calculators", "710", "AFOLU", "Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering", "01 natural sciences", "630", "12. Responsible consumption", "mitigation", "greenhouse gases", "11. Sustainability", "gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "GE1-350", "paysage", "climate", "TD1-1066", "agriculture", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences", "changement climatique", "Physics", "Q", "landscape;carbon calculators;greenhouse gases;GHG emissions;AFOLU;mitigation", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "landscape", "15. Life on land", "carbon calculators", "[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio]", "GHG emissions", "Environmental sciences", "13. Climate action", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal.science/hal-01190664/file/Colomb-EnvResLett-2013_%7B85094A8F-159E-4C0A-9FB9-2DA75BDB27B8%7D.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Environmental%20Research%20Letters", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029", "name": "item", "description": "10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1088/1748-9326/8/1/015029"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2013-03-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.1371/journal.pone.0020105", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:20:15Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2011-06-17", "title": "Global Change Could Amplify Fire Effects On Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions", "description": "Open AccessBackground Little is known about the combined impacts of global environmental changes and ecological disturbances on ecosystem functioning, even though such combined impacts might play critical roles in shaping ecosystem processes that can in turn feed back to climate change, such as soil emissions of greenhouse gases. Methodology/Principal Findings We took advantage of an accidental, low-severity wildfire that burned part of a long-term global change experiment to investigate the interactive effects of a fire disturbance and increases in CO2 concentration, precipitation and nitrogen supply on soil nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in a grassland ecosystem. We examined the responses of soil N2O emissions, as well as the responses of the two main microbial processes contributing to soil N2O production \u2013 nitrification and denitrification \u2013 and of their main drivers. We show that the fire disturbance greatly increased soil N2O emissions over a three-year period, and that elevated CO2 and enhanced nitrogen supply amplified fire effects on soil N2O emissions: emissions increased by a factor of two with fire alone and by a factor of six under the combined influence of fire, elevated CO2 and nitrogen. We also provide evidence that this response was caused by increased microbial denitrification, resulting from increased soil moisture and soil carbon and nitrogen availability in the burned and fertilized plots. Conclusions/Significance Our results indicate that the combined effects of fire and global environmental changes can exceed their effects in isolation, thereby creating unexpected feedbacks to soil greenhouse gas emissions. These findings highlight the need to further explore the impacts of ecological disturbances on ecosystem functioning in the context of global change if we wish to be able to model future soil greenhouse gas emissions with greater confidence.", "keywords": ["Greenhouse Effect", "effet de serre", "sol", "Internationality", "Time Factors", "550", "Nitrogen", "QH301 Biology", "Science", "Nitrous Oxide", "incendie", "Fires", "12. Responsible consumption", "Soil", "dioxyde de carbone", "11. Sustainability", "Chemical Precipitation", "Soil Microbiology", "azote", "2. Zero hunger", "Q", "R", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "Carbon Dioxide", "15. Life on land", "\u00e9mission", "[SDE.BE] Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "pr\u00e9cipitation atmosph\u00e9rique", "13. Climate action", "Denitrification", "Medicine", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology", "GE Environmental Sciences", "Research Article"]}, "links": [{"href": "https://hal.science/halsde-00723483/file/2011_Niboyet_Plosone_1.pdf"}, {"href": "https://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/1706/7/Niboyet_A_etal_2011_Global_change_amplify_fire%281%29.pdf"}, {"href": "https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0020105"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/PLoS%20ONE", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.1371/journal.pone.0020105", "name": "item", "description": "10.1371/journal.pone.0020105", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.1371/journal.pone.0020105"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2011-06-08T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.4141/cjss07108", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:22:14Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2010-03-17", "title": "Effects Of Reduced Or No Tillage Practices On C Sequestration In Soils In Temperate Regions.", "description": "

En r\uffc3\uffa9gions de climat temp\uffc3\uffa9r\uffc3\uffa9, les terres cultiv\uffc3\uffa9es ont un potentiel de stockage de carbone que l\uffe2\uff80\uff99on peut tenter d\uffe2\uff80\uff99utiliser pour r\uffc3\uffa9duire d\uffe2\uff80\uff99autant les \uffc3\uffa9missions de CO2 atmosph\uffc3\uffa9rique par des pratiques culturales adapt\uffc3\uffa9es et notamment par les techniques culturales sans labour (TCSL). Cette capacit\uffc3\uffa9 de stockage de carbone dans le sol a \uffc3\uffa9t\uffc3\uffa9 \uffc3\uffa9valu\uffc3\uffa9e sur l\uffe2\uff80\uff99essai de longue dur\uffc3\uffa9e de Boigneville (Bassin de Paris, France) et a \uffc3\uffa9t\uffc3\uffa9 compar\uffc3\uffa9e aux donn\uffc3\uffa9es de la litt\uffc3\uffa9rature internationale. Le suivi du stock de carbone du sol sous une rotation ma\uffc3\uffafs-bl\uffc3\uffa9 indique une tendance \uffc3\uffa0 un stockage mod\uffc3\uffa9r\uffc3\uffa9 tant en syst\uffc3\uffa8me labour\uffc3\uffa9 (0,10 t C ha-1 an-1 sur 28 ans) qu\uffe2\uff80\uff99en TCSL (respectivement 0,21 t et 0,19 t C ha-1 an-1 pour le travail superficiel et le semis direct sur cette m\uffc3\uffaame p\uffc3\uffa9riode). Avec une absence de diff\uffc3\uffa9rence significative entre le semis direct et le travail superficiel, l\uffe2\uff80\uff99effet sp\uffc3\uffa9cifique moyen des TCSL \uffc3\uffa9valu\uffc3\uffa9 \uffc3\uffa0 0,10 t C ha-1 an-1 sur 28 ans apparait sensiblement plus faible que celui mesur\uffc3\uffa9 sur les 20 premi\uffc3\uffa8res ann\uffc3\uffa9es et \uffc3\uffa9valu\uffc3\uffa9 \uffc3\uffa0 0,20 t C ha-1 an-1. Ces valeurs, inf\uffc3\uffa9rieures \uffc3\uffa0 d\uffe2\uff80\uff99autres valeurs largement diffus\uffc3\uffa9es par ailleurs, et cette variation d\uffc3\uffa9croissante de la capacit\uffc3\uffa9 de stockage avec la dur\uffc3\uffa9e de TCSL sont coh\uffc3\uffa9rentes avec la tendance moyenne observ\uffc3\uffa9e \uffc3\uffa0 partir d\uffe2\uff80\uff99un large \uffc3\uffa9chantillonnage de donn\uffc3\uffa9es de la litt\uffc3\uffa9rature internationale. L\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffc3\uffa9volution de ce stockage de carbone est discut\uffc3\uffa9e en lien avec les indications sur l\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffc3\uffa9volution du stock de carbone des sols de cette m\uffc3\uffaame r\uffc3\uffa9gion, les indicateurs de stockage potentiel, et les implications li\uffc3\uffa9es \uffc3\uffa0 l\uffe2\uff80\uff99\uffc3\uffa9volution du climat.Mots cl\uffc3\uffa9s: Techniques de culture sans labour, travail superficiel, semis direct, stockage de carbone, s\uffc3\uffa9questration, mitigation, gaz \uffc3\uffa0 effet de serre, essai de longue dur\uffc3\uffa9e, climat temp\uffc3\uffa9r\uffc3\uffa9

", "keywords": ["[SDV.SA.AGRO] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agronomy", "[SDV.SA.AGRO]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Agronomy", "essai de longue dur\u00e9e", "travail superficiel", "04 agricultural and veterinary sciences", "[SDV.SA.SDS]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "semis direct", "climat temp\u00e9r\u00e9", "01 natural sciences", "mitigation", "stockage de carbone", "0401 agriculture", " forestry", " and fisheries", "gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "Techniques de culture sans labour", "s\u00e9questration", "[SDV.SA.SDS] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Agricultural sciences/Soil study", "0105 earth and related environmental sciences"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Metay, Aur\u00e9lie, Mary, Bruno, Arrouays, Dominique, Labreuche, J\u00e9rome, Martin, Manuel, Nicolardot, Bernard, Germon, Jean-Claude,", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.4141/cjss07108"}, {"rel": "related", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/Canadian%20Journal%20of%20Soil%20Science", "name": "related record", "description": "related record", "type": "application/json"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.4141/cjss07108", "name": "item", "description": "10.4141/cjss07108", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.4141/cjss07108"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2009-11-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10.5683/SP3/4FOMJF", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"license": "Open Access", "updated": "2026-05-30T16:24:58Z", "type": "Dataset", "title": "Carbon biogeochemistry of major rivers in northern Qu\u00e9bec [summer 2010 snapshot]", "description": "Open AccessThe file contains the following variables and units of measurement: Annual streamflow from precipitation -evapotranspiration (m3/s), Mean Slope (degree), Mean Altitude (m) Depth (m), Water Temperature (\u00baC), Dissolved oxygen - saturation (%), Dissolved oxygen (mg/L), pH, Average wind speed (m/s), Catchment area (km2), Total Aquatic cover (%), River cover (%), Vegetation cover (%), Wetland cover (%), Brunisolic (%), Podzolic (%), Organic soil (%), Regosolic (%), Intrusive rocks (%), Metamorphic rocks (%), Volcanic rocks (%), Sedimentary rocks (%), total organic carbon - TOC (mg/L), dissolved organic carbon - DOC (mg/L), total inorganic carbon - TIC (mg/L), dissolved inorganic carbon - DIC (mg/L), particulate organic carbon - POC (mg/L), particulate inorganic carbon- PIC (TIC-DIC, mg/L), total phosphorus - TP (ug/L), total nitrogen - TN (mg/L), Total Suspended Particles (mg/L), \u039414C-DOC (\u2030), \u03b413C-DOC (\u2030), pCO2 (ppm), pCH4 (ppm), CO2 Flux chamber (mgC/m2/d), CH4 Flux chamber (mgC/m2/d), CO2 TBL (Thin Boundary Layer method) method (mgC/m2/d1), CH4 TBL method (mgC/m2/d1).", "keywords": ["Watershed hydrology", "Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)", "boreal rivers", "15. Life on land", "dissolved organic carbon", "6. Clean water", "Gaz carbonique", "Greenhouse gases", "carbon export", "Carbon dioxide", "13. Climate action", "Earth and Environmental Sciences", "Gaz \u00e0 effet de serre", "Carbone organique dissous", "Cycle du carbone (Biog\u00e9ochimie)"], "contacts": [{"organization": "Ladeira De Melo, Michaela", "roles": ["creator"]}]}, "links": [{"href": "https://doi.org/10.5683/SP3/4FOMJF"}, {"rel": "self", "type": "application/geo+json", "title": "10.5683/SP3/4FOMJF", "name": "item", "description": "10.5683/SP3/4FOMJF", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main/items/10.5683/SP3/4FOMJF"}, {"rel": "collection", "type": "application/json", "title": "Collection", "name": "collection", "description": "Collection", "href": "https://repository.soilwise-he.eu/cat/collections/metadata:main"}], "time": {"date": "2023-01-01T00:00:00Z"}}, {"id": "10568/135827", "type": "Feature", "geometry": null, "properties": {"updated": "2026-05-30T16:26:01Z", "type": "Journal Article", "created": "2023-10-15", "title": "Global observation gaps of peatland greenhouse gas balances: needs and obstacles", "description": "Abstract

Greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions from peatlands contribute significantly to ongoing climate change because of human land use. To develop reliable and comprehensive estimates and predictions of GHG emissions from peatlands, it is necessary to have GHG observations, including carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), that cover different peatland types globally. We synthesize published peatland studies with field GHG flux measurements to identify gaps in observations and suggest directions for future research. Although GHG flux measurements have been conducted at numerous sites globally, substantial gaps remain in current observations, encompassing various peatland types, regions and GHGs. Generally, there is a pressing need for additional GHG observations in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean regions. Despite widespread measurements of CO2 and CH4, studies quantifying N2O emissions from peatlands are scarce, particularly in natural ecosystems. To expand the global coverage of peatland data, it is crucial to conduct more eddy covariance observations for long-term monitoring. Automated chambers are preferable for plot-scale observations to produce high temporal resolution data; however, traditional field campaigns with manual chamber measurements remain necessary, particularly in remote areas. To ensure that the data can be further used for modeling purposes, we suggest that chamber campaigns should be conducted at least monthly for a minimum duration of one year with no fewer than three replicates and measure key environmental variables. In addition, further studies are needed in restored peatlands, focusing on identifying the most effective restoration approaches for different ecosystem types, conditions, climates, and land use histories.