ABSTRACT
The most complete, nonpartisan source of information on this hot agronomic topic available today, this book brings together a diverse group of papers and data to resolve the debate between sedimentologists and soil scientists and agronomists over whether the effects of soil erosion on carbon and atmospheric CO2 is beneficial or destructive. Divided into four sections, it offers data on how soil erosion affects soil, water, and air quality. Topics include mineralization rate, inundation, sediment deposition, and global warming potential, as well as carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide emissions, and the implications of soil erosion on the global carbon cycle and carbon budget.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Section 1|51 pages
Basic Concepts
chapter Chapter 4|15 pages
Modeling Soil Erosion Induced Carbon Fluxes between Soil and Atmosphere on Agricultural Land Using SPEROS-C
part Section 2|154 pages
Erosion at the Plot Scale
chapter Chapter 5|18 pages
Soil Carbon Erosion and Its Selectivity at the Plot Scale in Tropical and Mediterranean Regions
chapter Chapter 6|14 pages
Organic Carbon in Forest Andosols of the Canary Islands and Effects of Deforestation on Carbon Losses by Water Erosion
chapter Chapter 7|15 pages
Soil Carbon Dynamics and Losses by Erosion and Leaching in Banana Cropping Systems with Different Practices (Nitisol, Martinique, West Indies)
chapter Chapter 9|18 pages
Carbon, Nitrogen, and Fine Particles Removed by Water Erosion on Crops, Fallows, and Mixed Plots in Sudanese Savannas (Burkina Faso)
chapter Chapter 10|13 pages
Effect of a Legume Cover Crop on Carbon Storage and Erosion in an Ultisol under Maize Cultivation in Southern Benin
chapter Chapter 11|10 pages
Organic Carbon Associated with Eroded Sediments from Micro-Plots under Natural Rainfall from Cultivated Pastures on a Clayey Ferralsol in the Cerrados (Brazil)
chapter Chapter 12|14 pages
Runoff, Soil, and Soil Organic Carbon Losses within a Small Sloping-Land Catchment of Laos under Shifting Cultivation
chapter Chapter 13|16 pages
Soil Erodibility Control and Soil Carbon Losses under Short-Term Tree Fallows in Western Kenya
chapter Chapter 14|10 pages
Soil and Carbon Losses under Rainfall Simulation from Two Contrasting Soils under Maize-Improved Fallows Rotation in Eastern Zambia
part Section 3|122 pages
Carbon Transfer in Rivers
chapter Chapter 16|16 pages
Carbon, Nitrogen, and Stable Carbon Isotope Composition and Land-Use Changes in Rivers of Brazil
chapter Chapter 17|20 pages
Organic Carbon Transported by the Equatorial Rivers: Example of Congo-Zaire and Amazon Basins
chapter Chapter 18|13 pages
Soil Carbon Stock and River Carbon Fluxes in Humid Tropical Environments: The Nyong River Basin (South Cameroon)
chapter Chapter 19|11 pages
Organic Carbon in the Sediments of Hill Dams in a Semiarid Mediterranean Area
chapter Chapter 20|28 pages
Monitoring Soil Organic Carbon Erosion with Isotopic Tracers: Two Case Studies on Cultivated Tropical Catchments with Steep Slopes (Laos, Venezuela)
part Section 4|9 pages
Conclusions