Agricultural practices and policies for carbon sequestration in soil /

Part I Historical Perspectives p. 1
Chapter 1 Carbon Sequestration and the Integration of Science, Farming, and Policy John M. Kimble and L. R. Everett and Ronald R. Follett and Rattan Lal p. 3
Chapter 2 Trend in Use of Conservation Practices in U.S. Agriculture and Its Implication for Global Climate Change Herby Bloodworth and Noel D. Uri p. 13
Chapter 3 Why Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Soils Rattan Lal p. 21
Chapter 4 Historical Perspective and Implications of Human Dimensions of Ecosystem Manipulations: Sustaining Soil Resources and Carbon Dynamics F. P. Miller p. 31
Part II Conservation Tillage and Residue Management p. 51
Chapter 5 Mulch Rate and Tillage Effects on Carbon Sequestration and CO[subscript 2] Flux in an Alfisol in Central Ohio S. W. Duiker and Rattan Lal p. 53
Chapter 6 Effects of Tillage on Inorganic Carbon Storage in Soils of the Northern Great Plains of the U.S. L. J. Cihacek and M. G. Ulmer p. 63
Chapter 7 Climatic Influences on Soil Organic Carbon Storage with No Tillage A. J. Franzluebbers and J. L. Steiner p. 71
Chapter 8 Long-Term Effect of Moldboard Plowing on Tillage-Induced CO[subscript 2] Loss D. C. Reicosky p. 87
Chapter 9 Tillage--Soil Organic Matter Relationships in Long-Term Experiments in Hungary and Indiana Erika Micheli and Beata Madari and Etelka Tombacz and Cliff T. Johnston p. 99
Chapter 10 Effect of Soil Management Practices on the Sequestration of Carbon in Duplex Soils of Southeastern Australia W. J. Slattery and A. Surapaneni p. 107
Chapter 11 Exchangeable Aluminium in Composts Rich in Organic Matter during the Maturation Process M. Jokova and O. Kostov p. 119
Part III Monitoring and Assessment p. 125
Chapter 12 Analysis and Reporting of Carbon Sequestration and Greenhouse Gases for Conservation Districts in Iowa John Brenner and Keith Paustian and George Bluhm and Kendrick Killian and Jan Cipra and Brian Dudek and Steve Williams and Timothy Kautza p. 127
Chapter 13 Comparing Estimates of Regional Carbon Sequestration Potential Using Geographical Information Systems, Dynamic Soil Organic Matter Models, and Simple Relationships P. D. Falloon and P. Smith and J. Szabo and Laszlo Pasztor and J. U. Smith and K. Coleman and S. J. Marshall p. 141
Chapter 14 Soil C Sequestration Management Effects on N Cycling and Availability W. R. Horwath and O. C. Devevre and T. A. Doane and A. W. Kramer and C. van Kessel p. 155
Chapter 15 Land-Use Effects on Profile Soil Carbon Pools in Three Major Land Resource Areas of Ohio A. Lantz and Rattan Lal and John M. Kimble p. 165
Chapter 16 CQESTR--Predicting Carbon Sequestration in Agricultural Cropland and Grassland Soils Ron. W. Rickman and Clyde L. Douglas, Jr. and Stephan L. Albrecht and Jeri L. Berc p. 177
Chapter 17 Case Study of Cost vs. Accuracy When Measuring Carbon Stock in a Terrestrial Ecosystem Gordon R. Smith p. 183
Chapter 18 State-Level Analyses of C Sequestration in Agricultural Soils Keith Paustian and John Brenner and Kendrick Killian and Jan Cipra and Steve Williams and Edward T. Elliott and Marlen D. Eve and Timothy Kautza and George Bluhm p. 193
Part IV Soil Management p. 205
Chapter 19 Changes in the Thermal and Moisture Regimes in the Plow Zone under Corn Following No-Till Implementation Kenneth M. Hinkel p. 207
Chapter 20 Soil Fertility Management with Zeolite Amendments. I. Effect of Zeolite on Carbon Sequestration: A Review Ekaterina Filcheva and K. Chakalov p. 223
Chapter 21 Soil Fertility Management with Zeolite Amendments: II. Zeolite Effect on Maintaining Soil Eh K. Chakalov and T. Popova and Ekaterina Filcheva p. 229
Chapter 22 Effect of Crop Rotation on the Composition of Soil Organic Matter Ekaterina Filcheva and T. Mitova p. 237
Chapter 23 Application of a Management Decision Aid for Sequestration of Carbon and Nitrogen in Soil Alan Olness and Dian Lopez and Jason Cordes and Colin Sweeney and Neil Mattson and W. B. Voorhees p. 245
Chapter 24 Soil Carbon Turnover in Residue Managed Wheat and Grain Sorghum Sven U. Bohm and Charles W. Rice and Alan J. Schlegel p. 255
Part V Soil Structure and Carbon Sequestration p. 265
Chapter 25 Organic Carbon Sequestration by Restoration of Severely Degraded Areas in Iceland Olafur Arnalds and Asa L. Aradottir and Gretar Gudbergsson p. 267
Chapter 26 Influence of Nitrogen Fertility Management on Profile Soil Carbon Storage under Long-Term Bromegrass Production L. J. Cihacek and D. W. Meyer p. 281
Chapter 27 Short-Term Crop Rotation and Tillage Effects on Soil Organic Carbon on the Canadian Prairies B. C. Liang and B. G. McConkey and C. A. Campbell and A. M. Johnston and A. P. Moulin p. 287
Part VI Economics of Carbon Sequestration p. 295
Chapter 28 Soil Organic Carbon Sequestration Rates in Reclaimed Minesoils V. Akala and Rattan Lal p. 297
Chapter 29 Efficiencies of Conversion of Residue C to Soil C C. A. Campbell and B. G. McConkey and S. Gameda and C. Izaurralde and B. C. Liang and R. P. Zentner and D. Sabourin p. 305
Chapter 30 Changes of Organic Matter and Aggregate Stability of the Arable Surface Waterlogged Soils Raina Dilkova and Ekaterina Filcheva and George Kerchev and Milena Kercheva p. 315
Part VII Policy Issues and Industrial and Farmer Viewpoints p. 321
Chapter 31 Designing Efficient Policies for Agricultural Soil Carbon Sequestration John M. Antle and Sian Mooney p. 323
Chapter 32 Economic Feasibility of Soil C Sequestration in U.S. Agricultural Soils M. Sperow and R. M. House and Keith Paustian and M. Peters p. 337
Chapter 33 Emissions Trading and the Transfer of Risk: Concerns for Farmers John Bennett and Dave Mitchell p. 349
Chapter 34 Sequestering Carbon: Agriculture's Potential New Role Jim Kinsella p. 357
Chapter 35 Public Policy Issues in Soil Carbon Trading Andrew P. Manale p. 361
Chapter 36 The Politics of Conservation William Richards p. 367
Part VIII Regional Pools p. 373
Chapter 37 Growing the Market: Recent Developments in Agricultural Sector Carbon Trading Michael J. Walsh p. 375
Chapter 38 Role of Agro-Industries in Realizing Potential of Soil C Sinks Bruno A. Alesii p. 387
Chapter 39 Potential for Carbon Accumulation under Brachiaria Pastures in Brazil R. M. Boddey and S. Urquiaga and B. J. R. Alves and M. Fisher p. 395
Chapter 40 Carbon Content of Desert and Semidesert Soils in Central Asia E. Lioubimtseva and J. M. Adams p. 409
Chapter 41 Pastureland Use in the Southeastern U.S.: Implications for Carbon Sequestration R. T. Conant and Keith Paustian and Edward T. Elliott p. 423
Chapter 42 On-Farm Carbon Sinks: Production and Sequestration Complementarities Jeffrey Hopkins p. 433
Chapter 43 Carbon Balances in Hungarian Soils Tamas Nemeth and Erika Micheli and Laszlo Pasztor p. 449
Chapter 44 Some Key Uncertainties in the Global Distribution of Soil and Peat Carbon J. M. Adams and E. Lioubimtseva p. 459
Chapter 45 Organic Carbon Stocks in Soils of Bulgaria Ekatarina Filcheva and S. V. Rousseva and A. Kulikov and S. Nedyalkov and T. Z. Chernogorova p. 471
Part IX Summary p. 477
Chapter 46 Assessment of Soil Organic Matter Layers Deposited at Open Pit Coal Mines L. Petrova and M. Banov and V. Somlev p. 479
Chapter 47 Organic Carbon Stores in Alaska Soils C. L. Ping and G. J. Michaelson and John M. Kimble and L. R. Everett p. 485
Chapter 48 Agricultural Practices and Policy Options for Carbon Sequestration: What We Know and Where We Need to Go John M. Kimble and Rattan Lal and Ronald R. Follett p. 495
Index p. 503