Soil Respiration and Global Carbon Cycle
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil and Plant Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2019)
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Soil respiration is a key process in the terrestrial carbon cycle. Soil respiration consists in the production of 75–98 Pg C yr−1 and represents a much greater gas exchange than fossil fuel combustion. Because of its important role in carbon efflux from terrestrial ecosystems, measuring data and understanding processes and tendencies linked to climatic changes are needed in natural, rural, and urban contexts in temperate and tropical areas.
This Special Issue will focus on soil CO2 emissions monitoring at different scales (lab incubation and field measurements), on the understanding of soil CO2 emissions variations according to different soil types, soil use, and soil management, as well as temperature and moisture conditions, on the estimation of the sensibility of soil respiration to global climatic change. Research on microbial communities responsible for CO2 emissions as well as research at global scales and modelling are welcomed.
Dr. Tiphaine Chevallier
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- temporal and spatial variability
- soil use and management
- type of soil
- soil respiration model
- soil respiration database
- root respiration
- heterotrophic and autotrophic soil respiration
- sensibility of soil respiration to soil temperature and moisture
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