Enhancement of carbon sequestration in US soils Academic Article

abstract

• Improved practices in agriculture, forestry, and land management could be used to increase soil carbon and thereby significantly reduce the concentration of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Understanding biological and edaphic processes that increase and retain soil carbon can lead to specific manipulations that enhance soil carbon sequestration. These manipulations, however, will be suitable for adoption only if they are technically feasible over large areas, economically competitive with alternative measures to offset greenhouse gas emissions, and environmentally beneficial. Here we present the elements of an integrated evaluation of soil carbon sequestration methods.

authors

• Mccarl, Bruce

published proceedings

• BIOSCIENCE

altmetric score

• 3

author list (cited authors)

• Post, W. M., Izaurralde, R. C., Jastrow, J. D., McCarl, B. A., Amonette, J. E., Bailey, V. L., ... Zhou, J. Z.

citation count

• 141

complete list of authors

• Post, WM||Izaurralde, RC||Jastrow, JD||McCarl, BA||Amonette, JE||Bailey, VL||Jardine, PM||West, TO||Zhou, JZ

publication date

• January 2004

publisher

• Oxford University Press (OUP)  Publisher

published in

• BIOSCIENCE  Journal

keywords

• Full Carbon Accounting
• Integrated Assessment
• Land-use Change
• Soil Carbon Sequestration
• Terrestrial Ecosystems

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0895:EOCSIU]2.0.CO;2

start page

• 895

end page

• 908

volume

• 54

issue

• 10

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1641/0006-3568(2004)054[0895:eocsiu]2.0.co;2

user-defined tag

• 13 Climate Action
• 15 Life on Land