Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes: A Spatially Explicit Approach to Support Sustainable Soil Management

Table 2

Predicted service indicators under both current and new land uses for a predominant clay soil in the study landscape. Values were derived from 25-year simulations based on average properties of the clay soil to 30 cm depth.

	Soil organic; carbon (t/ha)	Soil water; storage (m^3/ha)	Aboveground biomass to; soil water storage kg/m^3a
Current land uses
Dry cropping	30^b	760	0.8
Intensive grazing	30^b	680	0.9
Future land uses
Ecological estate	34	710	3.9
Ecological estate with grazing	33	690	2.3
Eucalypt plantation	34	750	84.5
Irrigated no-till cropping	38	1200^c	2.2
Irrigated permanent lucerne	27	1170^c	1.1

aAboveground biomass data is derived from APSIM simulations.
bInitial soil organic carbon content in equilibrium (modelling assumption).
cSoil water topped up by irrigation.