The Future of Soil Carbon: Its Conservation and Formation

The Future of Soil Carbon: Conservation and Formation provides readers with an integrative approach to understanding the important role of organic carbon in soil functioning and fertility. Soil organic carbon (SOC) is a vital component of soils, with important and far-reaching effects on the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. Human activities over the last several decades have significantly changed the regional and global balance of SOC, greatly exacerbating global warming and climate change. Terrestrial interactions between SOC and complex human-natural systems require new fundamental and applied research into regional and global SOC budget. The Future of Soil Carbon: Conservation and Formation provides this new and synthesized information on the dynamics of SOM in the terrestrial environment. In addition to rigorous state-of-the art on soil science, this book also provides strategies to avoid risks of soil carbon losses. Provides a holistic overview of soil carbon status and main threats for its conservationOffers innovative solutions to conserve soil carbonIncludes in-depth treatment of regional and global changes in soil organic carbon budget INDICE: 1. Soil Carbon in world natural and agricultural soils. Amount and importance for soil fertility 2. Loss of Soil Carbon due to the greenhouse effect. Importance of this problem 3. Climate changes and soil Management: the main threats for Soil Carbon conservation 4. Soil Erosion and Soil Carbon: solutions for this problem 5. Humic substances and Soil Carbon: a good association for the future 6. Carbon fixation and Carbon sequestration from aggregates 7. Soil Carbon and microorganisms: new tools for understanding its implication in soil formation and fertility 8. New strategies for building Soil Carbon: exogenous organic amendments to soil 9. Modeling of Soil Carbon 10. Dynamic of Soil Carbon and Different Scales 11. The Future of Soil Carbon

• ISBN: 978-0-12-811687-6
• Editorial: Academic Press
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 350
• Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2018
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés