Detailed description
Soil Carbon and Greenhouse Gas Dynamics in European Ecosystems is a comprehensive overview of the latest research in this field drawn together by a network of scientists, currently working for the European research programme, COST Action 639 BurnOut(www.cost639.net; 2006-2010).
COST Action 639 emerged from a demand from policy makers in Europe for more detailed information on soil carbon dynamics. The cooperation between experts for reporting and experts for soil dynamics is the focus of the book. This book seeks to provide an up-to-date account on the state-of-the-art research within this topical field.
This book focuses primarily on ecosystems and their soil carbon stocks. The book identifies three key sensitive ecosystems within Europe: Mediterranean Forest and Agricultural Systems; Mountains; and Peatland. Introduction to carbon in sensitive European ecosystems: from science to land management /
Robert Jandl and Mats Olsson, Rationale for this book, What do we need to know about soils for reporting purposes? , Objectives and overview of COST Action 639 , Working Groups of COST Action 639 , Regional coverage , Management Committee of COST Action 639 . Hot spots and hot moments for greenhouse gas emissions from soils / Frank Hagedorn and Pat Bellamy, Introduction , Hot spots: where are they? , How to quantify hot spots? , Mapping soil carbon at the local and regional scale , Case study: assessing soil carbon changes across England and Wales , Quantifying hot moments , Reporting of hot spots and hot moments , Conclusions . Land-use change effects on soil carbon stocks in temperate regions - development of carbon response functions / Lars Vesterdal, Jens Leifeld, Christopher Poeplau, Axel Don and Bas van Wesemael; Introduction ; Previous synthesis studies on land use change effects on SOC ; the concept of carbon response functions ; Temporal dynamics of SOC after land use change in temperate regions ; Implication for greenhouse gas reporting . Carbon in European soils / Rainer Baritz, Dietmar Zirlewagen, Robert Jones, Dominique Arrouays, Roland Hiederer, Marion Schrumpf and Winfried Riek; Existing soil carbon inventories in Europe ; Detectability of change from soil inventories ; Assessment of baseline carbon stocks in Europe ; Pattern detection and predictors for carbon storage at landscape and continental scale ; Conclusions about soil carbon baselines and change detection in Europe. Ecosystem disturbance and soil organic carbon - a review / Helga Van Miegroet and Mats Olsson; Introduction ; The carbon cycle and disturbance ; Anthropogenic disturbance due to forest harvesting ; Natural disturbances . Mountain soils in a changing climate - vulnerability of carbon stocks and ecosystem feedbacks / Sofie Sjogersten-Turner, Christine Alewell, Lauric Cecillon, Frank Hagedorn, Robert Jandl, Jens Leifeld, Vegard Martinsen, Andreas Schindlbacher, M. Teresa Sebastia and Helga Van Miegroet; Introduction ; Carbon stocks and their quality ; The role of erosion for carbon fluxes ; Climate change in European mountains ; Future threats to high altitude carbon storage . Greenhouse gas balance in disturbed peatlands / Jukka Alm, Kenneth A. Byrne, Ciara Hayes, Jens Leifeld, and Narasinha J. Shurpali; Origins, distribution and current use of peatlands in Europe ; Disturbances in undrained mires ; Disturbances due to peatland management ; Reporting emissions of greenhouse gases from managed peatlands ; Recovery from peat loss: restoration, afforestation or energy crops? . Soil carbon in Mediterranean ecosystems and related management problems / Mirco Rodeghiero, Agust1n Rubio, Eugenio D1az-Pines, Joan Romanya, Sara Maranon-Jimenez, Guy J. Levy, Ana Patricia Fernandez-Getino, Maria Teresa Sebastia, Theodore Karyotis, Tommaso Chiti, Costantino Sirca, Afonso Martins, Manuel Madeira, Miglena Zhiyanski, Luciano Gristina and Tommaso La Mantia; Mediterranean soil ; Soil carbon stocks in the major Mediterranean ecosystems ; Effects of wildfires on soil carbon dioxide efflux in Mediterranean ecosystems ; Dehesas ; Mediterranean rangelands ; Agricultural practices and SOC ; Soil carbon accumulated as charcoal ; The role of soil inorganic carbon in the carbon cycle . Reporting requirements for the estimation of greenhouse gas emissions and removals of soils in the land use sector / Zoltan Somogyi, Ciara Hayes, Alexandra Freudenschuß and Rainer Baritz; Information to be reported in a national GHG inventory ; Concepts of estimating emissions and ; Carbon pools ; The simplified representation the forest carbon cycle ; Land use and land use types, and their identification ; Carbon stock changes in the mineral soil pool ; Carbon stock changes in the organic soil pool ; Possible data sources ; Uncertainties, QA/QC and verification ; The current status of reporting carbon stock changes . Estimating soil carbon stock changes by process-based models and soil inventories - uncertainties and complementarities / Annemieke I. Gardenas, Per-Erik Jansson, Erik Karltun, Leif Klemendtsson, Aleksi Lehtonen, Carina Ort´1z, Taru Palosuo and Magnus Svensson; Cases studies illustrating the use of models in estimating SOC and GHG ; Uncertainty in SOC stocks estimated using process-oriented models . Soil carbon in sensitive European ecosystems: from science to land management - a summary / Robert Jandl, Jukka Alm, Lars Vesterdal, Mats Olsson, Peter Weiss, Sofie Sjogersten, Mirco Rodeghiero, Jens Leifeld, Frank Hagedorn, Pat Bellamy and Rainer Baritz; Problem statement and reporting requirements ; Question on a baseline for soil carbon stocks ; Where should we measure and monitor? ; Human and non-human induced changes of the soil carbon pool ; Specific cases of sensitive ecosystems
