Felipe Quartucci

• Environmental and climate change
• Ecosystem services
• Sustainable use of natural resources

• Brazil

- Researcher - Santa Barbara Higher Education College (Faesb, Tatuí/Brazil) - 08/2019 to present

- Lecturer/Researcher – Santa Barbara Higher Education College, Brazil (Faesb) - 02/2014 to 07/2019

- Lecturer/Researcher –University of Sorocaba, Brazil (Uniso) - 08/2014 to 07/2019

- Silviculture Specialist – Fibria – 07/2009 to 05/2011

- Trainee - Votorantim Pulp and Paper (VCP) – 01/2008 to 06/2009

- MSc Erasmus Mundus European Forestry – double degree master. University of Eastern Finland and University of Freiburg, Germany. Period: 08/2011 to 12/2013.

- Specialization in Forest Management - Federal University of Paraná – UFPR. Period: 05/2009 to 12/2010.

- Bachelor degree in Forest Engineering - Luiz de Queiroz College of Agriculture (ESALQ-USP). Period: 2003 to 2007.

Sustainable soil management; Soil organic carbon.

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) 

Fiat Panis Foundation

Deep soil organic matter assessment and soil carbon stabilization after land restoration in São Paulo, Brazil

Soil organic matter is a means to tackle climate change through carbon sequestration and to contribute to food security through improved soil productivity. In cultural landscapes that are based on disproportionately high transformation rates of forest into agricultural land, needs-based land restoration opens up the possibility of increasing carbon sequestration at the landscape level while, at the same time, securing the food supply for land users. In Brazil, the Atlantic Forest Biome has lost 85% of its natural cover, making land restoration a matter of great urgency. Accordingly, the objective of this study is to assess the potential of different land restoration options concerning their climate change mitigation potential and their contribution to food security in the area of the Atlantic Forest Biome.

Soil will be collected up to a depth of 3.0 meters in three different restoration methods: agroforestry systems, reforestation and natural regeneration as agricultural production systems, income generating systems and biodiversity conservation areas, respectively. The labile and stable fractions of organic matter will be determined, and the lability index will be calculated comparing the share of stabilized carbon among the restoration methods, and native forest and agricultural land as reference. This study will allow a better understanding of the process of deep soil carbon sequestration after land restoration, thereby contributing with technical recommendations for policymakers on better strategies to mitigate climate change and improve food security for farmers.

Key words: land restoration; agroforestry systems; food security; soil carbon sequestration; labile carbon; stable carbon; deep soil.

Prof. Wulf Amelung

Dr. Manfred Denich

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