Orchard recycling improves climate change adaptation and mitigation potential of almond production systems

contained greater quantities of stored C compared to soils where residues were burned both when represented as a percentage (per 100g of soil) and total C stock per hectare in the topsoil (t ha-1). Taken over nine years, C storage services provided by this practice exceed the 4o/oo tar- gets set by the international community to significantly mitigate anthropogenic C concentra- tion in the atmosphere [46–48]. Fig 2. Impact of WOR on (a) total carbon and (b) nitrogen content in aggregate fractions. (�) indicate significant differences at P �0.05. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229588.g002 PLOS ONE Whole orchard recycling PLOS ONE | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229588 March 27, 2020 11 / 22