Overview
- Presents integrative analyses of organic carbon and carbonate in soil and sediment in a typical arid area of China
- Demonstrates the significant role of carbonate in the area’s carbon sequestration
- Uses a stable carbon isotope to quantify different carbon sources
- Features comprehensive analyses of carbon accumulation in response to changes in climate and land use
Part of the book series: Springer Earth System Sciences (SPRINGEREARTH)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Organic carbon
- carbonate accumulation
- accumulation rate
- stable isotope
- lake sediment
- land use change
- carbon accumulation
- Soil organic carbon
- Soil carbonate
- Stable carbon isotope
- Lake sediment carbon
- Carbon cycle in arid region
- Climate change
- Land use change
- Environmental Geography
- climate change impacts
About this book
This book integrates the analyses of organic carbon and carbonate accumulation in soil and lake sediment in a typical arid region of China that has experienced significant climate and land-use changes.
It demonstrates that carbonate accumulation greatly exceeds organic carbon in both soil and sediment. It also shows that intensive cropping with sound land management in the arid land not only increases soil organic carbon stock, but also enhances accumulation of soil carbonate, particularly in subsoils. Carbon accumulation in the lake sediment increased between 1950 and 2000, after which it declined, and the authors explore how human activity and climate change may have caused the changes in carbon burial in the lake sediment.
This book is of interest to researchers in a number of fields such as soil science, limnology and global change, as well as to the policy-makers.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Dr. Xiujun Wang is a professor and chief scientist at the College of Global Change and Earth System Science, Beijing Normal University. She earned a Ph. D. in soil biochemistry (Melbourne University) and Ph. D. in ocean biogeochemistry (University of Tasmania). She was a principal investigator for NASA carbon projects at the University of Maryland during 2005-2013. Her research focuses on the carbon cycle in soils and sediments of north China. Her main accomplishments include the assessment of accumulation rate of carbonate in north China’s cropland. She was the president of Biogeoscience Section, Asia-Oceania Geosciences Society during 2014-2016.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Carbon Cycle in the Changing Arid Land of China
Book Subtitle: Yanqi Basin and Bosten Lake
Editors: Xiujun Wang, Zhitong Yu, Jiaping Wang, Juan Zhang
Series Title: Springer Earth System Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7022-8
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7021-1Published: 16 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3907-3Published: 01 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7022-8Published: 05 March 2018
Series ISSN: 2197-9596
Series E-ISSN: 2197-960X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 141
Topics: Biogeosciences, Environmental Geography, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts, Climate Change, Soil Science & Conservation