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Cumulative CO 2<br />

(kg C ha -1 )<br />

600<br />

FALL<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

Moldboard<br />

100<br />

Not tilled<br />

0<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30<br />

Cumulative CO 2<br />

(kg C ha -1 )<br />

800<br />

700<br />

600<br />

500<br />

400<br />

300<br />

200<br />

100<br />

SPRING<br />

0<br />

0 5 10 15 20 25 30<br />

2500<br />

SUMMER<br />

Cumulative CO 2<br />

(kg C ha -1 )<br />

2000<br />

1500<br />

1000<br />

500<br />

0<br />

0 20 40 60 80<br />

Time since plow ing (d)<br />

Fig. 1. CO 2 -C losses from a plowed and a non-tilled <strong>soil</strong> following plowing (after Rochette<br />

and Angers, 1999).<br />

Lower rates of organic matter decomposition and CO 2 evolution with decreasing<br />

tillage intensity resulted in sequestration of crop-derived C and thereby increase<br />

the <strong>soil</strong>’s ability to remove CO 2 from the atmosphere (Dick et al., 1998;<br />

Halvorson et al., 2002; West and Marland, 2002). Using a global database of 67<br />

long-term experiments in US West and Post (2002) indicated that a change from<br />

conventional tillage to no-till sequestered on average 57 g C m -2 y -1 (0.0065 g C m -2<br />

h -1 ). This figure was more than doubled (125 g C m -2 y -1 or 0.0143 g C m -2 h -1 ) under<br />

Spanish conditions (Sánchez et al., 2002). This impact can be enhanced when<br />

the C-building practices are maintained because <strong>soil</strong> C sequestered due to reduced<br />

tillage is not stable and rapidly mineralized to CO 2 (Dick et al., 1998; McConkey et<br />

al., 2003).<br />

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