Description

This module allows to get Soil Organic Matter (SOM) quantity and quality, as well as Carbonate content in soil analyses from Rock-Eval. The Rock-Eval + PartySOC model is emerging as a rapid and inexpensive method to assess SOM stability. PartySOC calculates the stable and active fractions of organic carbon, and these values can be considered as absolute values if they are measured on soils that are similar to those which were used to calibrate the model (ie soils from long term agronomical experiments under European pedoclimate conditions). They are applicable to agricultural soils, woodlands and grasslands. PartySOC has been applied on a diversity of soils samples from long-term agronomical experiments in temperate regions (Germany, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, France, Spain, USA, Argentina, Australia, Canada) and several soil monitoring programs (French RMQS, German BZE, LUCAS toposoil…). Partioning soil organic carbon to improve SOC dynamics simulations accuracy. Partitioning soil organic carbon (SOC) into two kinetically different fractions that are stable or active on a century scale is key for an improved monitoring of soil health and for more accurate models of the carbon cycle (Cécillon et al., 2018, 2021, Kanari et al., 2022). PartySoc can be used to initialize kinetic pools of soil C models, such AMG (Clivot et al 2019). Thus, PartySoc provides a quantified information on SOC biogeochemical stability. TOC and MINC are comparable to TOC and TIC from Elemental Analysis (cf Stojanova et al 2024).