Table of Contents
Section 1: Basic Concepts, Chapter 1: Global Change and Carbon Cycle: The Position of Soils and Agriculture, Chapter 2: Soil Carbon Sequestration, Chapter 3: Influence of Soil Erosion on Carbon Dynamics in the World, Chapter 4: Modeling Soil Erosion Induced Carbon Fluxes between Soil and Atmosphere on Agricultural Land Using SPEROS-C, Section 2: Erosion at the Plot Scale, Chapter 5: Soil Carbon Erosion and Its Selectivity at the Plot Scale in Tropical and Mediterranean Regions, Chapter 6: Organic Carbon in Forest Andosols of the Canary Islands and Effects of Deforestation on Carbon Losses by Water Erosion, Chapter 7: Soil Carbon Dynamics and Losses by Erosion and Leaching in Banana Cropping Systems with Different Practices (Nitisol, Martinique, West Indies), Chapter 8: Influence of Land Use, Soils, and Cultural Practices on Erosion, Eroded Carbon, and Soil Carbon Stocks at the Plot Scale in the Mediterranean Mountains of Northern Algeria, Chapter 9: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Fine Particles Removed by Water Erosion on Crops, Fallows, and Mixed Plots in Sudanese Savannas (Burkina Faso), Chapter 10: Effect of a Legume Cover Crop on Carbon Storage and Erosion in anUltisol under Maize Cultivation in Southern Benin, Chapter 11: Organic Carbon Associated with Eroded Sediments from Micro-Plots under Natural Rainfall from Cultivated Pastures on a Clayey Ferralsol in the Cerrados (Brazil), Chapter 12: Runoff, Soil, and Soil Organic Carbon Losses within a Small Sloping-Land Catchment of Laos under Shifting Cultivation, Chapter 13: Soil Erodibility Control and Soil Carbon Losses under Short-Term Tree Fallows in Western Kenya, Chapter 14: Soil and Carbon Losses under Rainfall Simulation from Two Contrasting Soils under Maize-Improved Fallows Rotation in Eastern Zambia, Section 3: Carbon Transfer in RiversChapter 15: Origins and Behaviors of Carbon Species in World Rivers, Chapter 16: Carbon, Nitrogen, and Stable Carbon Isotope Composition and Land-Use Changes in Rivers of Brazil, Chapter 17: Organic Carbon Transported by the Equatorial Rivers: Example of Congo-Zaire and Amazon Basins, Chapter 18: Soil Carbon Stock and River Carbon Fluxes in Humid Tropical Environments: The Nyong River Basin (South Cameroon), Chapter 19: Organic Carbon in the Sediments of Hill Dams in a Semiarid Mediterranean Area, Chapter 20: Monitoring Soil Organic Carbon Erosion with Isotopic Tracers: Two Case Studies on Cultivated Tropical Catchments with Steep Slopes (Laos, Venezuela), Section 4: Conclusions, Chapter 21: Erosion and Carbon Dynamics: Conclusions and Perspectives, Index