The Impact of Tillage on Changes in Soil Carbon with Special Emphasis on Australian Conditions

National Carbon Accounting System - Technical Report No. 43

Frank Valzano, Brian Murphy and Terry Koen, January, 2005

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Abstract

The Australian Greenhouse Office (AGO) of the Department of the Environment and Heritage, has implemented a new modelled approach to estimate soil carbon fluxes resulting from changes in land use as a part of the development of the National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS).

This review supplies data for refining the modelling of soil carbon stocks per unit of land under different tillage practices, including conservation tillage practices. Results reported in this review are based on total soil carbon and take no account of different forms of soil carbon in the soil.