Biological approaches to global environment change mitigation and remediation
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It is concluded that none of these biological approaches are 'magic bullets' capable of reversing environmental changes brought about by increasing emissions of greenhouse gases, however, it is possible that increasing crop albedo and soil carbon sequestration might contribute towards mitigation on a regional scale.About:
This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2009-07-28 and is currently open access. It has received 49 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Greenhouse gas removal & Greenhouse gas.read more
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The impact of agricultural soil erosion on biogeochemical cycling
TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the mobilization and deposition of agricultural soils can significantly alter nutrient and carbon cycling, and that erosion can result in lateral fluxes of nitrogen and phosphorus that are similar in magnitude to those induced by fertilizer application and crop removal.
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Microbial modulators of soil carbon storage: integrating genomic and metabolic knowledge for global prediction
TL;DR: It is argued that although making direct linkage of genomes to global phenomena is a significant challenge, many connections at intermediate scales are viable with integrated application of new systems biology approaches and powerful analytical and modelling techniques.
Soil biodiversity: functions, threats and tools for policy makers
Anne Turbé,Arianna De Toni,Patricia Benito,Patrick Lavelle,Perrine Lavelle,Nuria Ruiz Camacho,Wim H. van der Putten,Eric Labouze,Shaleindra Mudgal +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the state of knowledge of soil biodiversity, its functions, its contribution to ecosystem services and its relevance for the sustainability of human society, in line with the definition of biodiversity given in the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Convention.
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Additional carbon sequestration benefits of grassland diversity restoration
Gerlinde B. De Deyn,Robert Shiel,Nick Ostle,Niall P. McNamara,Simon Oakley,Iain M. Young,Iain M. Young,Chris Freeman,Nathalie Fenner,Helen Quirk,Richard D. Bardgett +10 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated C and nitrogen (N) accumulation rates in soil and C and N pools in vegetation in a long-term field experiment (16 years) in which fertilizer application and plant seeding were manipulated and the abundance of the legume Trifolium pratense was manipulated for the last 2 years.
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Surface albedo following biochar application in durum wheat
Lorenzo Genesio,Franco Miglietta,Emanuele Lugato,Silvia Baronti,Maurizio Pieri,Francesco Primo Vaccari +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the effect of biochar on soil physical, chemical and biological properties, and found that the surface albedo of a durum wheat crop in Central Italy showed a decrease of up to 80% with respect to the control in bare soil conditions.
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Soil carbon sequestration impacts on global climate change and food security.
TL;DR: In this article, the carbon sink capacity of the world’s agricultural and degraded soils is 50 to 66% of the historic carbon loss of 42 to 78 gigatons of carbon.
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Temperature sensitivity of soil carbon decomposition and feedbacks to climate change
TL;DR: This work has suggested that several environmental constraints obscure the intrinsic temperature sensitivity of substrate decomposition, causing lower observed ‘apparent’ temperature sensitivity, and these constraints may, themselves, be sensitive to climate.
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Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a perspective of the global cycle of nitrogen and phosphorous, the global water cycle, and the global sulfur cycle from a global point of view.
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Land Clearing and the Biofuel Carbon Debt
TL;DR: Converting rainforests, peatlands, savannas, or grasslands to produce food crop–based biofuels in Brazil, Southeast Asia, and the United States creates a “biofuel carbon debt” by releasing 17 to 420 times more CO2 than the annual greenhouse gas reductions that these biofuel reductions would provide by displacing fossil fuels.
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Ocean Acidification: The Other CO 2 Problem
TL;DR: The potential for marine organisms to adapt to increasing CO2 and broader implications for ocean ecosystems are not well known; both are high priorities for future research as mentioned in this paper, and both are only imperfect analogs to current conditions.