Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems

ISBN-13: 9781566704595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 280 str.

Lal Rattan; John M. Kimble; H. Eswaran

Opis

Global Climate Change and Cold Regions Ecosystems provides information on soil processes and the carbon cycle in cold ecoregions as well as the soil carbon pool and its fluxes in the soils of cold ecoregions. F illing a void in this area of soil science, this resource explains soi l processes influencing C dynamics under natural and disturbed ecosyst ems. The soils of the cold region ecosystems serve as a net sink of at mospheric C. However, an increase in global temperature could render t hem a net source. In the event of global warming, the cold regions eco systems-arctic, sub-arctic, alpine, Antarctic, boreal forests, and pea tlands-will undergo radical changes. Potential environmental change co uld drastically increase the active soil layer and influence the large C pool found in them.

Spis treści

Soil C Pools of Different Ecoregions. Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance. Methods. Recommendations and Conclusions.

O autorze

R. Lal, J. M. Kimble, B. A. Stewart