Soil management and climate change : effects on organic carbon, nitrogen dynamics, and greenhouse gas emissions / edited by Maria Angeles Munoz, Raul Zornoza.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Decreased organic carbon associated with land management in Mediterranean environments / Javier Jerez Escolano [and four others] -- 2. Effect of land use on organic carbon distribution in a North African region : Tunisia case study / Nadhem Brahim, Hatem Imbrahim -- 3. Organic carbon stocks in all pools following land cover change in the rainforest of Madagascar / Mieja Razafindrakota [and eighteen others] -- 4. Soil carbon dynamics under different land uses in dryland Mediterranean conditions / Jorge Alvaro-Fuentes [and four others] -- 5. Short-term effects of tillage practices and crop residue exportation on soil organic matter and earthworm communities in silt loam arable soil / Aboulkacem Lemtiri [and nine others] -- 6. Soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics in a tropical peatland / Adesiji R. Adeolu [and five others] -- 7. Carbon and nitrogen sequestration potential of Mediterranean green roofs prototypes / Sara Ondono, Juan Jose Martinez-Sanchez, Jose Luis Moreno -- 8. Soil organic matter accumulation in postmining sites : potential drivers and mechanisms / Jan Frouz, Olga Vinduskova -- 9. Role of carbonates in the physical stabilization of soil organic matter in agricultural Mediterranean soils / Inigo Virto [and three others] -- 10. Effects of carbon inputs on chemical and microbial properties of soil in irrigated and rainfed olive groves / Victor Kavvadias [and seven others] -- 11. Dynamics of carbon and nitrogen in agricultural soils : role of organic and inorganic sources / Shyam Prasad Majumder [and five others] -- 12. Nitrogen dynamics and leaching in calcareous soils amended with pig slurry / Melisa Gomez-Garrido [and four others] -- 13. Nitrogen dynamics in agricultural soils amended with sewage sludge / Wanderley J. de Melo [and four others] -- 14. Impacts of raw and purified pig slurry on carbon and nitrogen contents in Mediterranean agricultural soil / Martire A. Terrero [and three others] -- 15. Do crop rotations improve the adaptation of agricultural systems to climate change? A modeling approach to predict the effect of durum wheat-based rotations on soil organic carbon and nitrogen / Roberta Farina [and five others] -- 16. Managing forest soils for carbon sequestation : insights from modeling forests around the globe / Juan A. Blanco -- 17. Soil organic matter and nutrient dynamics following different management of crop residues at two sites in Austria / Heide Spiegel [and five others] -- 18. MURASOC, a metaanalysis to test the ffects of independent variables on soil organic carbon : application to Mediterranean areas / Alfonso Olaya-Abril [and three others] -- 19. Soil CO2 emissions in a long-term tillage treatment experiment / Eszter Toth [and fiver others] -- 20 Land use and land cover transition in Brazil and their effects on greenhouse gas emissions / Eraclito R. de Sousa-Neto [and four others] -- 21. Crop residue management and greenhouse gases emissions in tropical rice lands / Pratap Bhattacharyya, Dhananjay Barman -- 22. Understanding the complex interaction between soil N availability and soil C dynamics under changing climate conditions / Pratap Srivastava [and four others] -- 23. Climate-smart soil management in semiarid regions / Noelia Garcia-Franco [and three others].

This book provides a state of the art overview of recent findings and future research challenges regarding physical, chemical and biological processes controlling soil carbon, nitrogen dynamic and greenhouse gas emissions from soils.

Description based on print version record.