Soil Responses to Climate Change [Paperback]

Soils will play a central role in mediating the impact of climate change on natural and managed ecosystems.
The book addresses the various responses of soil processes and properties to environmental change and highlights their contribution to the proper understanding of ecosystem behaviour.
Topics include: Soil hydrology; landscape evolution; salinisation; desertification; soil nitrogen dynamics; soil carbon; soil microbiology; soil erosion; crop modelling.Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Soil Responses to Climate Change, held at Silsoe, Bedfordshire, UK, September 20-24, 1993Soils will play a central role in mediating the impact of climate change on natural and managed ecosystems.
The book addresses the various responses of soil processes and properties to environmental change and highlights their contribution to the proper understanding of ecosystem behaviour.
Topics include: Soil hydrology; landscape evolution; salinisation; desertification; soil nitrogen dynamics; soil carbon; soil microbiology; soil erosion; crop modelling.Plenary papers.- Soils and global change: an overview.- Relevance of understanding landscape evolution in relation to climate-induced soil behaviour.- Climate change, desertification and the Mediterranean region.- Climate change, soil salinity and alkalinity.- Spatial modelling approaches to evaluate the effects of climate change on future crop potential and land management.- Crop models: principles and adaptations to the problem of climate change.- The effects of climate change on irrigated soils: water resources and solute leaching.- Modelling the effects of climate change on the hydrology and water quality of structured soils.- The potential impact of global environmental change on nitrogen dynamics in arable systems.- Climate change and soil microbial processes: secondary effects are hypothesised from better known interacting primary effects.- Old sediment carbon in global budgetsls³