The potential of soils of the tropics to sequester carbon and mitigate the greenhouse effect

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Modeling multiple ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, commodity production, and tradeoffs at landscape scales (2009, background): “…rates are also a function of climate and weather (e.g., Jenny 1980, Coomes et al. 2002, Raich et al. 2006), and land management practices (e.g., fertilizer use on crops, wetland draining practices, see Schuman et al. 2002 and Lal 2002); these factors are missing from our model as well.”
Global Potential of Soil Carbon Sequestration to Mitigate the Greenhouse Effect (2003, background): “If well managed, soils of the tropics could be large sinks for atmospheric C (Lugo and Brown, 1993; Lal, 2002).”
Crop Management for Soil Carbon Sequestration (2003, background): “Lal (2002b) identified three strategies to increase SOC concentrations: (1) restoration of degraded soils, (2) conversion of agriculturally marginal soils to pastures or forest lands, and (3) adoption of RMPs on cropland.”
Use and understanding of organic amendments in Australian agriculture: a review (2011, background): “Soil OC is the second largest carbon pool on the surface of the earth after the oceans (Batjes 1996; Swift 2001), and the possibility of increasing the OC content of the soil through changing agronomic management practices may play a role in combating climate change (Lal 2002).”