Global Sequestration Potential of Increased Organic Carbon in Cropland Soils

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 15554 - 8
• Main Authors: Zomer, Robert J., Bossio, Deborah A., Sommer, Rolf, Verchot, Louis V.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 14.11.2017; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/1144; 704/106/694/682; 704/158/2456; 704/158/2458; Agricultural land; Carbon; Carbon - metabolism; Carbon cycle; Carbon dioxide; Carbon dioxide emissions; Carbon Sequestration; Climate; Crops, Agricultural - chemistry; Crops, Agricultural - metabolism; Emissions; Ethiopia; Europe; Food production; Food security; Food Supply; Global temperatures; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; India; multidisciplinary; North America; Organic carbon; Paris Agreement; Science; Soil - chemistry; Soils; North America; Europe; Ethiopia; India

The role of soil organic carbon in global carbon cycles is receiving increasing attention both as a potentially large and uncertain source of CO 2 emissions in response to predicted global temperature rises, and as a natural sink for carbon able to reduce atmospheric CO 2 . There is general agreemen...