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JA0590-14
Article TitleBenefits of soil carbon: report on the outcomes of an international scientific committee on problems of the environment rapid assessment workshop
AuthorSteve Banwart, Helaina Black, Zucong Cai, Patrick Gicheru, Hans Joosten, Reynaldo Victoria, Eleanor Milne, Elke Noellemeyer, Unai Pascual, Generose Nziguheba, Rodrigo Vargas, Andre Bationo, Daniel Buschiazzo, Delphine de-Brogniez, Jerry Melillo, Dan Richter, Mette Termansen, Meine van Noordwijk, Tessa Goverse, Cristiano Ballabio, Tapas Bhattacharyya, Marty Goldhaber, Nikolaos Nikolaidis, Yongcun Zhao, Roger Funk, Chris Duffy, Genxing Pan, Newton la Scala, Pia Gottschalk, Niels Batjes, Johan Six, Bas van Wesemael, Michael Stocking, Francesca Bampa, Martial Bernoux, Christian Feller, Philippe Lemanceau and Luca Montanarella
Year2014
Journal TitleCarbon Management
InstitutionTaylor & Francis
Volume5
Issue2
Pages185-192
Call NumberJA0590-14
Abstract:
The demographic drivers of environmental change and the demand for biomass production are already putting unprecedented pressure on the earth’s soils [2]. An urgent priority for action is to ensure that worldwide soils will cope with these multiple and increasing demands
Soil carbon plays a key role in all the four classes of soil ecosystem services. The flows arising from environmental processes depend on ecosystem structure, where soil carbon is a key component, along with the environmental conditions and human interventions that can strongly influence the services, goods and benefits produced
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