Soil Carbon, Nitrogen Sequestration and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation under Global Change
A special issue of Life (ISSN 2075-1729). This special issue belongs to the section "Diversity and Ecology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 36748
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Interests: plant nutrition and fertilizers; soil and nutrients; biochar application
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Dear Colleagues,
Global change induced extreme climate events are becoming more common than ever. Soil carbon and nitrogen pools correlated significantly with changes in atmospheric greenhouse gas. Large increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases, majorly carbon dioxide (CO2), nitrous oxide (N2O), and methane (CH4), can enhance the heating of atmosphere and Earth's surface, which will be generally followed by global warming. Global warming or other global change induced by greenhouse gas emissions has been increasingly common and serious. The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions from all kinds of sources will be therefore crucial in mitigation of global climate change. Among all emission sources, agriculture, forests and other land uses are the second largest source of atmospheric greenhouse gases. Agro-forestry ecosystems and the associated management practices, including fertilization, soil disturbance, soil acidification and amelioration, harvesting, etc., play important roles in emission and mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions. Soil greenhouse gas emissions as affected by management practices or other kinds of global change factors, such as extreme climate events, species invasions, etc., are vital components of these sources. The measurement and mitigation of soil greenhouse gases will profoundly impact the mitigation of global climate change. However, mitigation of greenhouse gases associated with climate change remain a challenge to human society due to inaccurate measurement and budget, and inefficient mitigation of greenhouse gases, limiting our ability to increase soil carbon/nitrogen pools and mitigate climate change.
This Special Issue will gather latest case studies and methodologies, including, but not limited to long-term in situ monitor studies, isotope labeling, and microbial examinations, on measurement and mitigation strategies of soil carbon and nitrogen pools, and soil greenhouse gas emissions, which will substantially improve our understanding of the potential, ability, and capacity of ecosystems in mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and hence global climate change.
Dr. Ling Zhang
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- soil carbon and nitrogen sequestration
- greenhouse gas mitigation
- microbial mechanisms
- agriculture practices
- climate change
- global warming
- global change related factors
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