Use of carbon isotopic tracers in investigating soil carbon sequestration and stabilization in agroecosystems.

Format:

Book

Series:

IAEA-TECDOC ; Number 1823.

IAEA TECDOC Series, 1011-4289 ; Number 1823

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Soils--Carbon content.

Soils.

Carbon sequestration.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Vienna, Austria : International Atomic Energy Agency, 2017.

Summary:

The global surface temperatures have been reported to increase at an average rate of 0.06C (0.11F) per decade. This observed climate change known as the greenhouse effect is attributed to the emission of greenhouse gases (GHGs), including carbon dioxide (CO 2), methane (CH 4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) to the atmosphere, resulting in trapping the heat near the earth's surface causing global warming. World soils are the largest reservoir of terrestrial carbon and that soils are a source or sink of GHGs depending on land use management. Recognizing the urgent need to address the soil organic matter constraints for a sustainable agricultural production to ensure food security, this publication provides an integrated view on conventional and isotopic methods of measuring and modelling soil carbon (c) dynamics, and the use nuclear and radioisotope tracer techniques in in-situ glasshouse and field labelling techniques to assess soil organic matter turnover and sequestration.

Contents:

Intro

Blank Page.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 23, 2017).

ISBN:

92-0-139319-9

OCLC:

1005616521