Soil Carbon Storage

Modulators, Mechanisms and Modeling

Brajesh Singh

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9780128127674
• Topic: Biowissenschaften
• Subtopic: Umweltwissenschaft

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 of state-of-the-art methodologies that elucidate these interactions and increase our understanding of a vitally important, but poorly characterized component of the global C cycle.

The book provides soil scientists with a comprehensive, mechanistic, quantitative and predictive understanding of soil carbon storage. It presents a new framework that can be included in predictive models and management practices for better prediction and enhanced C storage in soils.

• Identifies management practices to enhance storage of soil C under different agro-ecosystems, soil types and climatic conditions
• Provides novel conceptual frameworks of biotic (especially microbial) and abiotic data to improve prediction of simulation model at plot to global scale
• Advances the conceptual framework needed to support robust predictive models and sustainable land management practices

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• Chapter 1. Soil Carbon: Introduction, Importance, Status, Threat, and Mitigation
• Chapter 2. Plant Communities as Modulators of Soil Carbon Storage
• Chapter 3. Microbial Modulators and Mechanisms of Soil Carbon Storage
• Chapter 4. Leveraging a New Understanding of how Belowground Food Webs Stabilize Soil Organic Matter to Promote Ecological Intensification of Agriculture
• Chapter 5. Climate, Geography, and Soil Abiotic Properties as Modulators of Soil Carbon Storage
• Chapter 6. Soil Nutrients and Soil Carbon Storage: Modulators and Mechanisms
• Chapter 7. Agricultural Management Practices and Soil Organic Carbon Storage
• Chapter 8. Impact of Global Changes on Soil C Storage—Possible Mechanisms and Modeling Approaches
• Chapter 9. Projecting Soil C Under Future Climate and Land-Use Scenarios (Modeling)
• Index