Storing Carbon in Agricultural Soils

• Author : Norman J. Rosenberg,Roberto C. Izaurralde
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 09 March 2013

Soil carbon sequestration can play a strategic role in controlling the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere and thereby help mitigate climatic change. There are scientific opportunities to increase the capacity of soils to store carbon and remove it from circulation for longer periods of time. The vast areas of degraded and desertified lands throughout the world offer great potential for the sequestration of very large quantities of carbon. If credits are to be bought and sold for carbon storage,

• Author : Rattan Lal
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 23 March 2023

This book addresses the importance of soil processes in the global carbon cycle.Agricultural activities considered responsible for an increase in CO2 levels in our atmosphere include: deforestation, biomass burning, tillage and intensive cultivation, and drainage of wetlands.However, agriculture can also be a solution to the problem in which carbon can be removed from the atmosphere and permanently sequestered into the soil. Management of Carbon Sequestration in Soil highlights the importance of world soils as a sink for atmospheric

• Author : Brajesh Singh
• Publisher : Academic Press
• Release : 12 April 2018

Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators, Mechanisms and Modeling takes a novel approach to the issue of soil carbon storage by considering soil C sequestration as a function of the interaction between biotic (e.g. microbes and plants) and abiotic (climate, soil types, management practices) modulators as a key driver of soil C. These modulators are central to C balance through their processing of C from both plant inputs and native soil organic matter. This book considers this concept in the light

• Author : Rahul Datta,Ram Swaroop Meena
• Publisher : Springer Nature
• Release : 25 August 2021

Carbon stabilization involves to capturing carbon from the atmosphere and fix it in the forms soil organic carbon stock for a long period of time, it will be present to escape as a greenhouse gas in the form of carbon dioxide. Soil carbon storage is an important ecosystem service, resulting from interactions of several ecological processes. This process is primarily mediated by plants through photosynthesis, with carbon stored in the form of soil organic carbon. Soil carbon levels have reduced

• Author : Xu Naizheng
• Publisher : Scientific Research Publishing, Inc. USA
• Release : 03 August 2016

Soil carbon stock, including soil organic carbon (SOC) and soil inorganic carbon(SIC) stock, is the largest pool in terrestrial ecosystem, and only a small changein storage has an impact on level of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Therefore,soil carbon sequestration is believed to be one of the cost-effective ways toreduce greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere and mitigate globalgreenhouse effects. This study calculates soil carbon storages and evaluates soilorganic storage change in the course of industrialization and urbanization

• Author : Christiana Dietzen
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 2023

As the largest terrestrial carbon pool, changes in soil carbon pools in response to climate change or management practices have the potential to significantly impact atmospheric CO2 concentrations. This dissertation examines the effects of climate change and two management strategies on soil carbon pools in order to understand how soil carbon storage might change under these conditions. Changes in soil carbon concentrations were studied in a Danish heath/grassland exposed to elevated CO2, summer drought, and warming. Soil carbon was

• Author : Rattan Lal,Bruce Augustin
• Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
• Release : 10 December 2011

Urbanization drastically alters the ecosystems structure and functions, disrupts cycling of C and other elements along with water. It alters the energy balance and influences climate at local, regional and global scales. In 2008, urban population exceeded the rural population. In 2050, 70% of the world population will live in urban centers. The number of megacities (10 million inhabitants) increased from three in 1975 to 19 in 2007, and is projected to be 27 in 2025. Rapid urbanization is altering the ecosystem C budget. Yet, urban ecosystems have a

• Author : John M. Kimble,Ronald F. Follett,Bobby A. Stewart
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 28 December 2000

Since carbon sequestration in soils reduces the amount of carbon available to the atmosphere, the Kyoto Protocols have heightened interest in soil carbon pools and their effect on carbon fluxes. Assessment Methods for Soil Carbon addresses many of the questions related to the measurement, monitoring, and verification of organic and inorganic carbon in soils. The major topics covered are: carbon pools; soil sampling and preparation, analytical techniques for soil carbon; soil erosion and sedimentation; remote sensing, GIS and modeling; procedures

• Author : R. Lal,Ronald F. Follett
• Publisher : ASA-CSSA-SSSA
• Release : 23 March 2023

This book is about the concept of the Greenhouse Effect is more than a century old, but today the observed and predicted climate changes. This second edition of Soil Carbon Sequestration and the Greenhouse Effect is essential reading for understandingthe processes, properties, and practices affecting the soil carbon pool and its dynamics.

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 2023

Soils offer the potential to sequester large quantities of carbon from the atmosphere for decades to millennia and so may ameliorate the anthropogenic influence of fossil fuel release. However changes in climate can drastically affect the soil's ability to store carbon through changes mineralogy on time scales of human interest. It is essential to understand the major controls on soil carbon dynamics before we attempt to manage sequestration to control atmospheric CO2 buildup. Models of the terrestrial carbon cycle often

• Author : Norman J. Rosenberg,R. Cesar Izaurralde,Elizabeth L. Malone
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1999

Carbon dioxide accumulation in the atmosphere as the result of fossil fuel emissions and land use change (especially tropical deforestation) threatens to cause global warming and climatic change. One means of reducing the increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide is through its capture by photosynthesis and storage (sequestration) in soil. The quantities of carbon that can be sequestered during the next century are enough to offset two or three decades' worth of carbon emissions at the current rate. The book deals

• Author : Robert Jandl,Mirco Rodeghiero,Mats Olsson
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 20 October 2011

Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems - From Science to Land Management is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists from across Europe. Soil carbon assessments are crucial at present to our understanding of the dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems and our ability to assess implications for the global carbon exchange and its consequences on the future climate. This book focuses primarily on ecosystems and their soil carbon stocks. The book

• Author : John M. Kimble,Ronald F. Follett,B.A. Stewart
• Publisher : CRC Press
• Release : 28 December 2000

Since carbon sequestration in soils reduces the amount of carbon available to the atmosphere, the Kyoto Protocols have heightened interest in soil carbon pools and their effect on carbon fluxes. Assessment Methods for Soil Carbon addresses many of the questions related to the measurement, monitoring, and verification of organic and inorganic carbon in soils. The major topics covered are: carbon pools; soil sampling and preparation, analytical techniques for soil carbon; soil erosion and sedimentation; remote sensing, GIS and modeling; procedures

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1986

• Author : Laurie J. Osher
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 23 March 1997