Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration
Of the five principal global carbon pools, the ocean pool is the largest at 38.4 trillion metric tons (mt) in the surface layer, followed by the fossil fuels (4.13 trillion mt), soils (2.5 trillion mt to a depth of one meter), biotic (620 billion mt), and atmospheric pools (800 billion mt). If the f...
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| description | Of the five principal global carbon pools, the ocean pool is the largest at 38.4 trillion metric tons (mt) in the surface layer, followed by the fossil fuels (4.13 trillion mt), soils (2.5 trillion mt to a depth of one meter), biotic (620 billion mt), and atmospheric pools (800 billion mt). If the fluxes among terrestrial pools are combined, annual total carbon flows across the pools average around 60 billion mt, with managed ecosystems (croplands, grazing lands, and plantations) accounting for 57 percent of that total. Thus, land managers have custody of more annual carbon flows than any other group. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1619902025-11-06T04:34:07Z Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration Lal, Rattan climate change soil carbon sequestration Of the five principal global carbon pools, the ocean pool is the largest at 38.4 trillion metric tons (mt) in the surface layer, followed by the fossil fuels (4.13 trillion mt), soils (2.5 trillion mt to a depth of one meter), biotic (620 billion mt), and atmospheric pools (800 billion mt). If the fluxes among terrestrial pools are combined, annual total carbon flows across the pools average around 60 billion mt, with managed ecosystems (croplands, grazing lands, and plantations) accounting for 57 percent of that total. Thus, land managers have custody of more annual carbon flows than any other group. 2009 2024-11-21T10:00:11Z 2024-11-21T10:00:11Z Brief https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161990 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Lal, Rattan. 2009. Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration. 2020 Vision Focus Brief 16(5). https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161990 |
| spellingShingle | climate change soil carbon sequestration Lal, Rattan Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title | Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title_full | Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title_fullStr | Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title_short | Agriculture and climate change: The potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| title_sort | agriculture and climate change the potential for soil carbon sequestration |
| topic | climate change soil carbon sequestration |
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