Formation and Fluxes of Soil Trace Gases
A special issue of Soil Systems (ISSN 2571-8789).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 November 2018) | Viewed by 67827
Special Issue Editors
Interests: soil biogeochemistry; trace gas fluxes; carbon cycle; atmospheric chemistry; soil functional genomics; environmental microbiology; geobiology
2. SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
Interests: soil biogeochemistry; redox processes; rhizosphere dynamics; microbial energetics; organic matter cycling; contaminant mobility
Interests: ecosystem ecology; global environmental change; biogeochemical cycles; soil-plant-atmosphere interactions; big data; blue carbon; extreme events; environmental networks
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Our ability to accurately model and predict the fate of different elements, requires completing all the parts of their cycles on a local, regional, and global scale. Soil volatilization of trace elements and soil emission and uptake of trace gases are often under-recognized in global element cycle models. Where considered, the underlying drivers and feedback loops are often not well developed or understood. For example, soils are key contributors to global emissions of greenhouse gases methane and nitrous oxide, but the complexity of the biological and abiotic soil processes that promote or limit emissions are still not well understood. Similarly, soils are major emitters of other problematic trace gases, including volatile metal(loid)s (e.g., methylated As, Hg) that may constitute an important export pathway for these elements, but regulating mechanisms for these fluxes need further elucidating. Finally, increased knowledge is needed about processes that control the exchange between soils and atmosphere of trace gases that play a major role in element cycles (e.g., C, N) and/or provide insight into their functioning (e.g., carbonyl sulfide (COS) as a tracer for CO2 fluxes).
We invite authors to submit current research that addresses knowledge gaps regarding soil processes driving fluxes of trace gases that are either of direct concern for the local or global environment (e.g., methane, nitrous oxide, ozone, volatile metal(loid)s) or that can help fill gaps in current models of key element cycles (e.g., C, N). Work that helps identify key soil properties and mechanisms that regulate these fluxes is particularly welcome.
Dr. Laura Meredith
Dr. Kristin Boye
Dr. Rodrigo Vargas
Ms. Kathleen Savage
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- carbon cycle
- nitrogen cycle
- methane
- nitrous oxide
- volatile metal(loid) species
- trace gas fluxes
- microbial metabolic pathways
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