Global Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect

By Rattan Lal. 2003

549 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Agronomy and Crop Science, Ecology, Soil Science

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In Agronomy and Crop Science

1. Pete Smith
2. Uwe A. Schneider
3. Bruce A. McCarl
4. B. Rumsey
5. F. O'Mara
6. Z. Cai
7. J. Weiss
8. T. Crews

In Ecology

1. C. Rice
2. B. Rumsey
3. F. O'Mara
4. Sarah E. Smith
5. H. Janzen
6. Z. Cai
7. Pete Smith
8. F. Andrew Smith

In Soil Science

1. Pete Smith
2. C. Rice
3. B. Rumsey
4. F. O'Mara
5. Sarah E. Smith
6. Z. Cai
7. F. Andrew Smith
8. J. Weiss

Citations in the corpus

• Tillage and soil carbon sequestration—What do we really know? (2007, background): “The primary practice that is mentioned is conservation tillage, broadly defined as any tillage method that leaves sufficient crop residue in place to cover at least 30% of the soil surface after planting (Lal, 2003).”
• The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review (2009, background): “Examples of improved agronomic practices include use of improved crop varieties, extending crop rotations, particularly of perennial crops, and avoidance of cultivation of bare unplanted or fallow land (West and Post 2002, Smith 2004a and 2004b, Lal 2003 and 2004a, Freibauer et al. 2004).”
• Plant performance in stressful environments: interpreting new and established knowledge of the roles of arbuscular mycorrhizas (2009, background): “Accurate quantification of persistent SOM derived from AM fungi will become increasingly important, as mechanisms and management practices that potentially maintain or increase C sequestration in soil are sought in the context of minimising atmospheric CO2 accumulation (Lal 2003).”
• What Agriculture Can Learn from Native Ecosystems in Building Soil Organic Matter: A Review (2017, background): “Surface SOM can also be lost via selective erosion when slopes are steep or soils are exposed by tillage or herbicides, even on gently sloping ground [4,8].”
• Negative emissions—Part 2: Costs, potentials and side effects (2018, background): “Of the 22 articles (Batjes 1998, Benbi 2013, Conant 2011, Henderson et al 2015, Lal 2003b, 2003a, 2004a, 2004c, 2004b, 2010, 2011, 2013, Lassaletta and Aguilera 2015, Lorenz and Lal 2014, Powlson et al 2014, Salati et al 2010, Smith 2012, 2016, Sommer and Bossio 2014, Minasny et al 2017, Metting et…”
• Sequestration and turnover of bacterial‐ and fungal‐derived carbon in a temperate grassland soil under long‐term elevated atmospheric pCO2 (2006, background): “Assuming a global temperate grassland area of 1.25 109 ha (Lal, 2003) and a bulk densitiy of Cambisols of about 1.36 kg dm 3 (Batjes, 1996), total amounts of amino sugar C in grassland soils can be calculated as 2.7 and 2.8 Pg amino sugar-C for ambient and elevated CO2 grassland soils, respectively…”
• Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture (2008, background): “(d) Restoration of degraded lands A large fraction of agricultural lands have been degraded by erosion, excessive disturbance, organic matter loss, salinization, acidification or other processes that curtail productivity (Batjes 1999; Lal 2001, 2003, 2004b; Foley et al. 2005).”