Soil carbon sequestrations by nitrogen fertilizer application, straw return and no-tillage in China's cropland

• Published in: Global change biology Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 281 - 305
• Main Authors: LU, FEI, WANG, XIAOKE, HAN, BING, OUYANG, ZHIYUN, DUAN, XIAONAN, ZHENG, HUA, MIAO, HONG
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.02.2009; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Agricultural history; Agricultural land; Agricultural practices; Agriculture; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Biological and medical sciences; carbon; carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide emissions; Carbon sequestration; carbon sinks; China; Climate change; Combustion; cropland; developing countries; Estimating techniques; experts; Fertilizer application; Fertilizers; field experimentation; Field tests; Fossil fuels; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; greenhouse gas emissions; issues and policy; Kyoto Protocol; Nitrogen; nitrogen fertilizer; nitrogen fertilizers; no-tillage; prediction; soil; soil organic carbon; Soils; Straw; straw return; Tillage; Asia; China; Japan, Honshu, Kyoto Prefect., Kyoto; China, People's Rep; Organic carbon; Soils; Soil tillage; China; soil organic carbon; cropland; straw return; Nitrogen fertilizer; Carbon sequestration; no-tillage; Straw

Soil as the largest global carbon pool has played a great role in sequestering the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Although global carbon sequestration potentials have been assessed since the 1980s, few investigations have been made on soil carbon sequestration (SCS) in China's cropland. Chin...