Soil Management and Climate Change
Effects on Organic Carbon, Nitrogen Dynamics, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Soil Management and Climate Change: Effects on Organic Carbon, Nitrogen Dynamics, and Greenhouse Gas Emissions provides a state of the art overview of recent findings and future research challenges regarding physical, chemical and biological processes controlling soil carbon, nitrogen dynamic and greenhouse gas emissions from soils. This book is for students and academics in soil science and environmental science, land managers, public administrators and legislators, and will increase understanding of organic matter preservation in soil and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions.

Given the central role soil plays on the global carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycles and its impact on greenhouse gas emissions, there is an urgent need to increase our common understanding about sources, mechanisms and processes that regulate organic matter mineralization and stabilization, and to identify those management practices and processes which mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, helping increase organic matter stabilization with suitable supplies of available N.

1. Short-term Effects of Tillage Practices and Crop Residue Exportation on Soil Organic Matter and Earthworm Communities in Silt Loam Arable Soil 2. Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Tropical Peatland 3. Decreased Organic Carbon Associated with Land Management in Mediterranean Environments 4. Soil Carbon Dynamics as Affected by Land-use Changes from Minesoil to Bioenergy Crop Production 5. Effect of Land Use on Organic Carbon Distribution in North African Region: Tunisia Case Study 6. Organic Carbon Stocks in All Pools Following Land Cover Change in Rainforest of Madagascar 7. Soil Carbon in the Indian Himalayas: Impact of Land Use and Climate Resilient Agricultural Practices 8. Soil Carbon Dynamics Under Different Land Uses in Dryland Mediterranean Conditions

Mechanisms and Strategies to Enhance Soil Carbon Sequestration in Soils 9. Carbon and Nitrogen Sequestration Potential of Mediterranean Green Roofs Prototypes 10. Carbon Sequestration in Post Mining Soils 11. Role of Carbonates in Soil Organic Matter Stabilization in Agricultural Mediterranean Soils

Contribution of Organic and Inorganic Amendments on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Contents 12. Effect of Organic Inputs on Soil Organic Matter Fractions and Microbial Biomass and Activity in Irrigated and Rainfed Olive Orchards 13. Dynamics of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soils: Role of Organic and Inorganic Sources 14. Nitrogen Dynamic and Leaching in Calcareous Soils Amended with Pig Slurry 15. Nitrogen Dynamic in Agricultural Soils Amended with Sewage Sludge 16. Effect of Three Types of Exogenous Organic Carbon on Soil Organic Matter and Physical Properties of a Sandy Artificial Soil 17. Impacts of Raw and Purified Pig Slurry on Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Mediterranean Agricultural Soils 18. Organic and Inorganic Amendments Effects on Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks and Pools 19. Soil Organic Matter Dynamics with Different Management of Crop Residues in Austria 20. Exogenous Organic Matter Evolution in Arid Soils and Their Impact on Carbon and Nitrogen Balances 21. Do Crop Rotations Improve the Adaptation of Agricultural Systems to Climate Change? A Modeling Approach to Predict the Effect of Rotations on Soil Organic Carbon and Nitrogen 22. Managing Forest Soils for Carbon Sequestration: Insights from Modeling Forests Around the Globe 23. MURASOC, a Meta-analysis to Test the Effects of Independent Variables on Soil Organic Carbon: Application to Mediterranean Areas 24. Soil CO2 Emissions in a Long-term Tillage Treatment Experiment 25. Land Use and Land Cover Transition in Brazil and Effects on GHG Emissions 26. Crop Residue Management and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Tropical Rice Lands 27. Understanding and Management of the Crucial Interaction Between Soil Carbon Dynamics, Nitrogen Dynamics and Climate Change 28. Climate-smart Soil Management in Semi-arid Regions

Primary: soil scientists, soil biologists, soil ecologists, soil physicists, soil biogeochemists,

Secondary: agronomists, environmental scientists, atmospheric scientists, land managers

• Provides the latest findings about soil organic matter stabilization and greenhouse gas emissions
• Covers the effect of practices and management on soil organic matter stabilization
• Includes information for readers to select the most suitable management practices to increase soil organic matter stabilization