Chapter 15: Promoting carbon sequestration in soils : the importance of soil, region and context-specific interventions

Cambridge

2023

423-451

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200210343

Global distribution of the soil carbon pool among soil types and ecoregions; Soil carbon persistence; Temperature sensitivity; Soil inorganic carbon; Blue carbon in coastal ecosystems; Black or pyrogenic carbon; Frozen carbon and permafrost soils; Land use and management; Landscape management; Salinity management for enhancing soil organic carbon stocks; Conservation agriculture, cover cropping and agroforestry; Grazing management; Nutrient management for sequestration of soil organic carbon; Carbon sequestration under urban ecosystems
Soil, or the pedological carbon (C) reservoir, comprising of the SOC and SIC pools, plays a critical role in the GCC and in moderating the Earth's climate. Both need to be considered when applying soil management practices intended to foster soil carbon.