Assessing long-term impacts of cover crops on soil organic carbon in the central U.S. Midwestern agroecosystems

Ziqi Qin1, Kaiyu Guan2, Wang Zhou3, Bin Peng4, Jinyun Tang5, Zhenong Jin6, Robert F Grant7, Maria Villamil8, Evan H DeLucia9, Andrew J. Margenot10, Umakant Mishra11, Zhangliang Chen12 and Tongxi Hu4, (1)Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,, Champaign, IL, United States, (2)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, United States, (3)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Urbana, IL, United States, (4)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Agroecosystem Sustainability Center, Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, Urbana, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley Natl Lab, Climate and Ecosystem Sciences Division, Berkeley, United States, (6)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems Engineering, Saint Paul, United States, (7)University of Alberta, Department of Renewable Resources, Edmonton, AB, Canada, (8)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Natural Resource and Environmental Science, Urbana, IL, United States, (9)Institute for Sustainability, Energy and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Plant Biology, Urbana, IL, United States, (10)University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL, United States, (11)Sandia National Laboratories, Computational Biology and Biophysics, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (12)Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, United States