Soil Carbon Sequestration Impacts on Global Climate Change and Food Security

By Rattan Lal. Science, 2004

7,652 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. T. Gomiero
3. Rattan Lal
4. G. Brookes
5. P. Barfoot
6. J. Weiss
7. N. Ostle
8. D. Pimentel

In Ecology

1. Noah Fierer
2. R. Bardgett
3. M. Bradford
4. J. Schimel
5. C. Liang
6. C. Kremen
7. Rattan Lal
8. G. D. De Deyn

In Soil Science

1. Noah Fierer
2. Pete Smith
3. R. Bardgett
4. M. Bradford
5. Matthias C. Rillig
6. J. Schimel
7. Y. Kuzyakov
8. Rattan Lal

Citations in the corpus

• Size and functional diversity of microbe populations control plant persistence and long‐term soil carbon accumulation (2005, background): “For example, it is generally thought that the soil sink capacity is limited and that old non-disturbed soils should have reached equilibrium in terms of their C balance (Lal 2004).”
• Greenhouse gas mitigation in agriculture (2008, background): “Expanding this area or using more effective irrigation measures can enhance C storage in soils through enhanced yields and residue returns ( Follett 2001; Lal 2004a).”
• Reviving the carbohydrate economy via multi-product lignocellulose biorefineries (2008, background): “Now, fossil fuel burning is responsible for »82% of net greenhouse gas emissions, equaling »7.0 billion tons of carbon/year [ 3 , 4]. Since the industrial revolution, nearly 270 billion tons of C from the combustion of fossil fuels”
• GM crops: global socio-economic and environmental impacts 1996- 2007 (2008, methodology): “Furthermore, Lal (1999) estimated that the global release of soil carbon since 1850 from land use changes has been 136 +/- 55 Pg121 (billion tonnes) of carbon.”
• Adoption of multiple climate-smart agricultural practices in the Gangetic plains of Bihar, India (2018, background): “It entails minimum soil disturbance and allowing crop residue or stubble to remain on the plot with the accompanying benefits of better soil aeration, carbon sequestration, improved soil fertility and an increased water-holding capacity of soil (Lal, 2004, 1997; Sapkota et al., 2015).”
• SOM genesis: microbial biomass as a significant source (2012, background): “SOM is thus one of the key factors controlling the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere and proper management of this resource can help mitigate global climate change and maintain or even enhance global food security (Lal 2004).”
• Greenhouse gas mitigation by agricultural intensification (2010, background): “Although management practices, such as conservation tillage, can increase soil organic carbon content in both extensive and intensive systems (15, 16), we do not assume any such gains in the AW scenarios between 1961 and 2005.”
• Soil carbon stocks in experimental mesocosms are dependent on the rate of labile carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus inputs to soils (2008, positive): “An improved understanding of how altered C and N input rates to soils will affect SOC decomposition and formation processes may enable more accurate prediction of how SOC stocks will respond to global change, and feedback to atmospheric CO 2 concentrations and soil fertility (Lal 2004).”
• The natural fix? The role of ecosystems in climate mitigation: a UNEP rapid response assessment. (2009, background): “of soil organic matter Source: Lal, 2004a. Agricultural systems in the temperate zone tend to occupy fertile soils that would have formerly supported temperate grassland or forest.”
• Agricultural residue production and potentials for energy and materials services (2014, background): “Particularly on degraded soils residue retention is beneficial, but removal has an impact on soil quality in all regions and climates, although much higher in tropical than temperate climates [96,97].”
• Biofuels: Efficiency, Ethics, and Limits to Human Appropriation of Ecosystem Services (2010, background): “…organic matter poses a threat to the long term fertility of soil and in turn to the very same human life (Allison 1973; Carter and Dale 1975; Hillel 1991; Pimentel et al. 1981, 1995; Drinkwater et al. 1998; Rasmussen et al. 1998; Smil 1999; Mäder et al. 2002; Lal 2004, 2005; Pimentel et al. 2006).”