Cover crops do increase soil organic carbon stocks-A critical comment on Chaplot and Smith (2023)

Affiliations

• ¹ Thünen Institute of Climate-Smart Agriculture, Braunschweig, Germany.
• ² Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Tjele, Denmark.
• ³ Division Impacts on Agriculture, Forests and Ecosystem Services (IAFES), Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Viterbo, Italy.
• ⁴ Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada and Université Laval, Québec, Canada.
• ⁵ Laboratoire de Géologie, École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, Université PSL, IPSL, Paris, France.
• ⁶ CIRAD, UPR HortSys, Montpellier, France.
• ⁷ AIDA, Univ Montpellier, CIRAD, Montpellier, France.
• ⁸ CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• ⁹ Plant Production Sciences and Technology, University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe.
• ¹⁰ CESBIO, Université de Toulouse, CNES/CNRS/INRAE/IRD/UT3, Toulouse, France.
• ¹¹ Ecosys, Université Paris-Saclay, INRAE, AgroParisTech, Palaiseau, France.
• ¹² INRAE, Université de Toulouse, UMR AGIR, Castanet-Tolosan, France.
• ¹³ CIRAD, UPR AIDA, Montpellier, France.
• ¹⁴ INRAE, BioEcoAgro Joint Research Unit, Laon, France.
• ¹⁵ ISPA, Bordeaux Sciences Agro, INRAE, Villenave d'Ornon, France.
• ¹⁶ Department of Agricultural and Forest Science and Engineering - Agrotecnio-CERCA Center, Universitat de Lleida, Lleida, Spain.
• ¹⁷ Universidad Politécnica de Madrid-CEIGRAM, Madrid, Spain.
• ¹⁸ CIRAD, Persyst Department, Montpellier, France.