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The most complete, nonpartisan source of information on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists and soil scientists and agronomists over whether the effects of soil erosion on carbon and atmospheric CO2 is beneficial or destructive. Divided into four sections, it offers data on how soil erosion affects soil, water, and air quality. Topics include mineralization rate, inundation, sediment deposition, and global warming potential, as well as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions, and the implications of soil erosion on the global carbon cycle and carbon budget.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781135460549
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 12/09/2005
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 378
Sales rank: 475,629
File size: 32 MB
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About the Author

Eric J. Roose, Rattan Lal, Christian Feller, Bernard Barthes, B.A. Stewart

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
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