Soil Erosion and Carbon Dynamics collects quantitative data on eroded carbon fluxes from the scale of the agricultural plot to that of large basins and oceans.

Features:

• Defines basic concepts and general approaches to the global carbon cycle, carbon sequestration, erosion, and eroded carbon
• Addresses the great debate on "missing" or "fugitive" carbon
• Includes arguments and data that support contrasting viewpoints on the effects of the carbon cycle
• Offers a meaningful look at the impact of soil erosion on the global carbon cycle and the global carbon budget
• Covers solubilization and carbon transfers in rivers and deposition in sediments
• Addresses the impact of soil erosion on crop production systems

Contents

Basic Concepts

• Global Change and Carbon Cycle: The Position of Soils and Agriculture
• Soil Carbon Sequestration
• Influence of Soil Erosion on Carbon Dynamics in the World
• Modeling Soil Erosion Induced Carbon Fluxes between Soil and Atmosphere on Agricultural Land Using SPEROS-C

Erosion at the Plot Scale

• Soil Carbon Erosion and Its Selectivity at the Plot Scale in Tropical and Mediterranean Regions
• Organic Carbon in Forest Andosols of the Canary Islands and Effects of Deforestation on Carbon Losses by Water Erosion
• Soil Carbon Dynamics and Losses by Erosion and Leaching in Banana Cropping Systems with Different Practices (Nitisol, Martinique, West Indies)
• Influence of Land Uses, Soils and Cultural Practices on Erosion, Eroded Carbon and Soil Carbon Stocks at the Plot Scale in the Mediterranean Mountains of Northern Algeria
• Carbon, Nitrogen, and Fine Particles Removed by Water Erosion on Crops, Fallows, and Mixed Plots in Sudanese Savannas (Burkina Faso)
• Effect of a Legume Cover Crop on Carbon Storage and Erosion in an Ultisol under Maize Cultivation in Southern Benin
• Organic Carbon Associated with Eroded Sediments from Micro-Plots under Natural Rainfall from Cultivated Pastures on a Clayey Ferralsol in the Cerrados (Brazil)
• Runoff, Soil and Soil Organic Carbon Losses within a Small Sloping-Land Catchment of Laos under Shifting Cultivation
• Soil Erodibility Control and Soil Carbon Losses under Short-Term Tree Fallows in Western Kenya
• Soil and Carbon Losses under Rainfall Simulation from Two Contrasting Soils under Maize-Improved Fallows Rotation in Eastern Zambia

Carbon Transfer in Rivers

• Origins and Behaviors of Carbon Species in World Rivers
• Carbon, Nitrogen, and Stable Carbon Isotope Composition an Land-Use Changes in Rivers of Brazil
• Organic Carbon Transported by the Equatorial Rivers: Example of Congo-Zaire and Amazon Basins
• Soil Carbon Stock and River Carbon Fluxes in Humid Tropical
• Environments: The Nyong River Basin (South Cameroon)
• Organic Carbon in the Sediments of Hill Dams in a Semiarid Mediterranean Area
• Monitoring Soil Organic Carbon Erosion with Isotopic Tracers: Two Case Studies on Cultivated Tropical Catchments with Steep Slopes (Laos, Venezuela)

Index

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