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Carbon Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Terrestrial Systems / Probir K. Ghosh, Sanat Kumar Mahanta, Debashis Mandal, Biswapati Mandal, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, editors.

Ghosh, Probir K.; Mahanta, Sanat Kumar.; Mandal, Debashis.; Mandal, Biswapati.; Ramakrishnan, Srinivasan.
2020
TD885.5.C3
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Carbon Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Terrestrial Systems / Probir K. Ghosh, Sanat Kumar Mahanta, Debashis Mandal, Biswapati Mandal, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, editors.
ISBN
9789811396281 (electronic book)
9811396280 (electronic book)
9789811396274
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9
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Singapore : Springer, 2020.
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English
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1 online resource (446 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-981-13-9
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TD885.5.C3
Dewey Decimal Classification
628.5/32
Summary
Soil organic carbon (SOC), a key component of the global carbon (C) pool, plays an important role in C cycling, regulating climate, water supplies and biodiversity, and therefore in providing the ecosystem services that are essential to human well-being. Most agricultural soils in temperate regions have now lost as much as 60% of their SOC, and as much as 75% in tropical regions, due to conversion from natural ecosystems to agricultural uses and mainly due to continuous soil degradation. Sequestering C can help to offset C emissions from fossil fuel combustion and other C-emitting activities, while also enhancing soil quality and long-term agronomic productivity. However, developing effective policies for creating terrestrial C sinks is a serious challenge in tropical and subtropical soils, due to the high average annual temperatures in these regions. It can be accomplished by implementing improved land management practices that add substantial amounts of biomass to soil, cause minimal soil disturbance, conserve soil and water, improve soil structure, and enhance soil fauna activity. Continuous no-till crop production is arguably the best example. These soils need technically sound and economically feasible strategies to sustainably enhance their SOC pools. Hence, this book provides comprehensive information on SOC and its management in different land-use systems, with a focus on preserving soils and their ecosystem services. The only book of its kind, it offers a valuable asset for students, researchers, policymakers and other stakeholders involved in the sustainable development and management of natural resources at the global level.
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Mahanta, Sanat Kumar.
Mandal, Debashis.
Mandal, Biswapati.
Ramakrishnan, Srinivasan.
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Part 1. Impact of land use management for regulating SOC pools
Chapter 1. Potential Soil Carbon Sequestration in Different Land Use and Management Systems in Peninsular India
Chapter 2. Inclusion of Legumes in Rice-Wheat Cropping System for Enhancing Soil Carbon Sequestration
Chapter 3. Effect of Land Use and Management Practices on Quantifying Changes of Phytolith Occluded Carbon in Arable Soils
Chapter 4. Soil Management for Regulating C Pools: Perspective in Tropical and Subtropical Soils
Chapter 5. Soil Management Practices of Major Crops in the United States and their Potential for Carbon Sequestration
Chapter 6. Soil Carbon Dynamics in different Land Use and Management Systems in Tropical Coastal Regions of India
Chapter 7. Soil Carbon Dynamics under Different Land Use and Management Systems
Chapter 8. Carbon- Management in Diverse Land Use Systems of Eastern Himalayan Sub-tropics
Chapter 9. Good Agricultural Practices and Carbon Sequestration
Chapter 10. Soil Carbon Dynamics in Relation to Soil Surface Management and Cropping System
Part 2. Conservation agriculture and C sequestration
Chapter 11. Conservation Agriculture and C Sequestration in Tropical Regions
Chapter 12. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics and Carbon Sequestration under Conservation Tillage in Tropical Vertisols
Chapter 13. Effect of Tillage on Soil Carbon Sequestration
Part 3. Soil physical and biological factors regulating SOC storage
Chapter 14. Functional Behaviour of Soil Physical Parameters for Regulating Organic C Pools
Chapter 15. Role of Microorganisms in Regulating Carbon Cycle in Tropical and Subtropical Soils
Chapter 16. Soil Organic Carbon Stock of Some Upland Use System under Tropical Monsoon Climate and Their Interrelationship with Soil Water Retention
Part 4. Pastures, grasslands, forests and farming systems
Chapter 17. Soil Organic Carbon Dynamics in Tropical and Subtropical Grassland Ecosystem
Chapter 18. Tropical Gras slands as Potential Carbon Sink
Chapter 19. Agroforestry for Carbon Sequestration in Tropical India
Chapter 20. Carbon Sequestration Potential of Perennial Horticultural Crops in Indian Tropics
Chapter 21. Effects of Productivity and Soil Carbon Storage in Mixed Forests
Chapter 22. Forage based Cropping Systems and Soil Organic Carbon Storage
Part 5. Frontier science regulating SOC storage
Chapter 23. Developments in Measurement and Modelling of Soil Organic Carbon
Chapter 24. Nanotechnology for Improved Carbon Management in Soil
Chapter 25. Potentials and Limitations of Soil Carbon Modeling: Implications in Indian Conditions.

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