Models for Soil Organic Matter Estimation on Natural Ecosystems, Agricultural Soils and Urban Soils

Dear Colleagues,

The increase in organic matter in the world's soils is key to mitigating the harmful effects of global climate change. In recent years, estimates of soil organic carbon have been made at multiple scales, from the plot to the regional and even continental scales. To improve soil organic matter inventories, we need to design and apply new tools and methodological strategies in soils from natural ecosystems, agricultural soils and even urban soils.

This Special Issue plans to overview the most recent advances in estimating soil organic matter (SOM) in natural ecosystems, agricultural soils and urban soils. 

This Special Issue aims to provide selected contributions and advances in the quantification and/or estimation of soil organic matter, new tools and methodologies for different scales and methods to increase soil organic matter.

Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• New methods to estimate SOM;
• SOM in natural ecosystems;
• SOM in agroecosystems;
• SOM in urban soils;
• Maps of SOM from the plot to the regional scale;
• Strategies to increase SOM.

Dr. Francisco Bautista Zuñiga
Dr. Fernando Ayala-Niño
Guest Editors

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