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Soil carbon sequestration to mitigate climate change

Rattan Lal
- 01 Nov 2004 - 
- Vol. 123, Iss: 1, pp 1-22
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In this article, the authors proposed a sustainable management of soil organic carbon (SOC) pool through conservation tillage with cover crops and crop residue mulch, nutrient cycling including the use of compost and manure, and other management practices.
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This article is published in Geoderma.The article was published on 2004-11-01. It has received 2931 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: No-till farming & Soil retrogression and degradation.

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Potential mechanisms for achieving agricultural benefits from biochar application to temperate soils: a review

TL;DR: In this paper, a review aims to determine the extent to which inferences of experience mostly from tropical regions could be extrapolated to temperate soils and to suggest areas requiring study.
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Soil carbon sequestration and land‐use change: processes and potential

TL;DR: In this article, the essential elements of what is known about soil organic matter dynamics that may result in enhanced soil carbon sequestration with changes in land-use and soil management are discussed.
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Soil respiration and the global carbon cycle

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a brief review for policymakers who are concerned that changes in soil respiration may contribute to the rise in CO2 in Earth's atmosphere, while simultaneously leaving a greater store of carbon in the soil.
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Soil Organic Matter

M. M. Konova, +1 more
- 01 Jan 1963 - 
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Terrestrial ecosystems and the carbon cycle

TL;DR: The terrestrial biosphere plays an important role in the global carbon cycle as mentioned in this paper, which is the fluxes of carbon among four main reservoirs: fossil carbon, the atmosphere, the oceans, and the terrestrial Biosphere.
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