Effects of Global Change and Human Activities on Soil Carbon and Nutrient Dynamics
A special issue of Soil Systems (ISSN 2571-8789).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 October 2019) | Viewed by 11084
Special Issue Editors
Interests: human effects on the nitrogen cycle; interactions among elemental cycles; redox-sensitive biogeochemistry; ecosystem processes in seasonally snow-covered ecosystems
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Human activities alter soil carbon and nutrient dynamics directly through land use change and management decisions, such as tillage, irrigation, and fertilization practices in agricultural systems, and fertilization and irrigation in urban environments. At the same time, human activities alter soil carbon and nutrient dynamics indirectly through global change factors such as climate change, species invasion, and anthropogenic nitrogen deposition. A wide variety of methodological approaches are needed to tease out how soils will respond to the complex interactions between global changes and human activities. For example, it is unknown how increased intensity of precipitation events associated with climate change will alter soil processes such as nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils associated with fertilizer application, or phosphorus cycling associated with iron redox dynamics in wet tropical forest soils. In addition, many of these soil processes can result in feedback loops that can amplify these changes.
We invite authors to submit current research on how soil carbon and/or nutrient cycling are affected by the interaction of global changes and human activities and the potential for soil feedbacks. Effects of human activities can include direct effects in managed ecosystems or indirect effects in natural ecosystems. We welcome submissions of empirical, modelling, or meta-analysis studies and particularly encourage studies investigating the mechanisms driving the responses to global changes and human activities.
Dr. Daniel Liptzin
Prof. Dr. Wendy H. Yang
Guest Editors
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