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Carbon Sequestration by Humberto Blanco-Canqui is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Carbon Sequestration about?

Restoring the soil C lost due to intensive cultivation is imperative to improve the declining soil ecosystem services from agricultural lands. It is long recognized that soil C is a key driver and regulator of physical, chemical, and biological processes and properties of the soil. It determines the ability of the soil to function and deliver all the supporting, regulating, and provisioning services. For example, a decline in soil organic C levels can adversely affect the ability of the soil to recycle nutrients, water, air, and produce food, fuel, feed, and fiber.Recent estimates indicate that CO 2 concentration in the atmosphere is reaching 420 ppm (NOAA, 2021), which indicates an abundance of CO 2 in the atmosphere available for photosynthesis and thus biomass production. Identifying or developing improved management practices that use the abundant atmospheric CO 2 and thus bring the C back to soil is a high priority. Innovative management practices that turn agricultural soils into C sinks rather than C sources are needed. The introduction of cover crops can be one such practice. Because growing plants use CO 2 from the atmosphere for aboveground and belowground biomass product

Author

Humberto Blanco-Canqui

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780891186397

Subjects

Science, Management, Social Science