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Soil Carbon in Sensitive European Ecosystems : From Science to Land Management.
Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in European Ecosystems is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists, currently working for the European research programme, COST Action 639 BurnOut(www.cost639.net; 2006-2010). COST Action 639 emerg...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2011.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Soil Carbon in SensitiveEuropean Ecosystems; Contents; Contributors; 1 Introduction to carbon in sensitive European ecosystems: from science to land management; 1.1 Rationale for this book; 1.2 What do we need to know about soils for reporting purposes?; 1.3 Objectives and overview of COST Action 639; 1.4 Working Groups of COST Action 639; 1.5 Regional coverage; Appendix 1.A Management Committee of COST Action 639; References; 2 Hot spots and hot moments for greenhouse gas emissions from soils; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Hot spots: where are they?; 2.3 How to quantify hot spots?
- 2.4 Mapping soil carbon at the local and regional scale2.5 Case study: assessing soil carbon changes across England and Wales; 2.6 Quantifying hot moments; 2.7 Reporting of hot spots and hot moments; 2.8 Conclusions; References; 3 Land-use change effects on soil carbon stocks in temperate regions
- development of carbon response functions; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Previous synthesis studies on land use change effects on SOC; 3.3 The concept of carbon response functions; 3.4 Temporal dynamics of SOC after land use change in temperate regions; 3.5 Implication for greenhouse gas reporting.
- 3.6 ConclusionsReferences; 4 Carbon in European soils; 4.1 Existing soil carbon inventories in Europe; 4.2 Detectability of change from soil inventories; 4.3 Assessment of baseline carbon stocks in Europe; 4.4 Pattern detection and predictors for carbon storage at landscape and continental scale; 4.5 Conclusions about soil carbon baselines and change detection in Europe; References; 5 Ecosystem disturbance and soil organic carbon
- a review; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 The carbon cycle and disturbance; 5.3 Anthropogenic disturbance due to forest harvesting; 5.4 Natural disturbances.
- 5.5 Summary and conclusionsReferences; 6 Mountain soils in a changing climate
- vulnerability of carbon stocks and ecosystem feedbacks; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Carbon stocks and their quality; 6.3 The role of erosion for carbon fluxes; 6.4 Climate change in European mountains; 6.5 Future threats to high altitude carbon storage; 6.6 Conclusions; Acknowledgement; References; 7 Greenhouse gas balance in disturbed peatlands; 7.1 Origins, distribution and current use of peatlands in Europe; 7.2 Disturbances in undrained mires; 7.3 Disturbances due to peatland management.
- 7.4 Reporting emissions of greenhouse gases from managed peatlands7.5 Recovery from peat loss: restoration, afforestation or energy crops?; 7.6 Conclusions; References; 8 Soil carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems and related management problems; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Mediterranean soil; 8.3 Soil carbon stocks in the major Mediterranean ecosystems; 8.4 Effects of wildfires on soil carbon dioxide efflux in Mediterranean ecosystems; 8.5 Dehesas; 8.6 Mediterranean rangelands; 8.7 Agricultural practices and SOC; 8.8 Soil carbon accumulated as charcoal.