Soil Carbon [Hardcover]

Few topics cut across the soil science discipline wider than research on soil carbon. This book contains 48 chapters that focus on novel and exciting aspects of soil carbon research from all over the world. It includes review papers by global leaders in soil carbon research, and the book ends with a list and discussion of global soil carbon research priorities.

Chapters are loosely grouped in four sections:
? Soil carbon in space and time
? Soil carbon properties and processes
? Soil use and carbon management
? Soil carbon and the environment

A wide variety of topics is included: soil carbon modelling, measurement, monitoring, microbial dynamics, soil carbon management and 12 chapters focus on national or regional soil carbon stock assessments. The book provides up-to-date information for researchers interested in soil carbon in relation to climate change and to researchers that are interested in soil carbon for the maintenance of soil quality and fertility. Papers in this book were presented at the IUSS Global Soil C Conference that was held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Part I:?Soil Carbon in Space and Time.- Challenges for Soil Organic Carbon Research.- Micromorphology and Micromorphometry Techniques for Soil Organic Carbon Studies.- Soils as Generators and Sinks of Inorganic Carbon in Geologic Time.-?Organic Carbon as a Major Differentiation Criterion in Soil Classification Systems.- Quantitatively Predicting Soil Carbon Across Landscapes.- On Soil Carbon Monitoring Networks.- A Novel Method for Measurement of Carbon on Whole Soil Cores.- Evolutionary Optimization of Spatial Sampling Networks Designed for the Monitoring of Soil Organic Carbon.- Distribution of Soil Organic Carbon in the Conterminous United States.- Overview of the U.S. Rapid Carbon Assessment Project: Sampling Design, Initial Summary and Uncertainty Estimates.- Part II:lCž