@article{fdi:010034041,
  title = {{T}he physical protection of soil organic carbon in aggregates : a mechanism of carbon storage in a vertisol under pasture and market gardening ({M}artinique, {W}est {I}ndies)},
  author = {{C}hevallier, {T}iphaine and {B}lanchart, {E}ric and {A}lbrecht, {A}lain and {F}eller, {C}hristian},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{S}oil aggregation can influence the storage of carbon in soil. {T}he role of soil structure on soil respiration was investigated by destructive treatment (crushing, dry-wetting events). {T}he soil was a {V}ertisol under market gardening, a 5-year-old pasture and a long-term pasture. 
{W}hen the soil structure was affected by crushing, soil respiration increase from {I} to 3.4 times. {T}his increase, which represented the amount of protected soil organic carbon ({SOC}), was much higher in soil under pasture than under market gardening cultivation. 
{T}here was a positive correlation between the amount of protected {SOC} and total {SOC} content. {T}he rate of decay of the protected {SOC} seemed to be slightly higher than the rate of decay of the unprotected {SOC}. {B}ecause {V}ertisol is a clayey soil dominated by 2/1 clays, 
it showed a high capacity to protect mineralisable {SOC} from mineralisation in macro-aggregates compared with literature results. {E}ven if the protected {SOC} in aggregates amounted to less than 10% of the total {SOC}, it represented more than 50% of the mineralisable
{SOC} of a pasture soil. {T}his mechanism seemed then to be an important factor to understand {SOC} storage in soil under pasture.},
  keywords = {{EVOLUTION} {DES} {SOLS} {SOUS} {CULTURE} ; {PATURAGE} ; {CULTURE} {MARAICHERE} ; {PRATIQUE} {CULTURALE} ; {STOCK} {ORGANIQUE} ; {CARBONE} ; {MINERALISATION} ; {AGREGAT} ; {ZONE} {TROPICALE} {HUMIDE} ; {MARTINIQUE}},
  booktitle = {{S}oil processes under pastures in intertropical areas},
  journal = {{A}griculture, {E}cosystems and {E}nvironment},
  volume = {103},
  numero = {2},
  pages = {375--387},
  ISSN = {0167-8809},
  year = {2004},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.agee.2003.12.009},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010034041},
}