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Natural Sinks of CO2

Palmas Del Mar, Puerto Rico, 24–27 February 1992

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Joe Wisniewski

    1. Wisniewski and Associates, Inc., Falls Church, USA

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  2. Ariel E. Lugo

    1. U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Effects of CO2 on Natural Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Impact of Rising CO2 on Ecosystem Production

      • Bert G. Drake
      Pages 25-44

    3. Field Measurements of CO2 Enhancement and Climate Change in Natural Vegetation

      • Boyd R. Strain, Richard B. Thomas
      Pages 45-60

    4. Potential Effects of the Increase in Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change on the Dynamics of Vegetation

      • Dieter Mueller-Dombois
      Pages 61-79

  4. Managing Natural Sinks of CO2

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81
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    2. Effects of Forest Management on Soil Carbon Storage

      • Dale W. Johnson
      Pages 83-120

    3. On Estimating Agriculture’s Net Contribution to Atmospheric Carbon

      • R. B. Jackson IV
      Pages 121-137

    4. Processes and Lands for Sequestering Carbon in the Tropical Forest Landscape

      • Sandra Brown, Ariel E. Lugo, Louis R. Iverson
      Pages 139-155

    5. Forestry Opportunities in the United States to Mitigate the Effects of Global Warming

      • R. Neil Sampson
      Pages 157-180

    6. Should We Store Carbon in Trees?

      • Gregg Marland, Scott Marland
      Pages 181-195

    7. The potential role of temperate forests as sinks for CO2 — Examples from the german environmental policy against global warming

      • H. D. Gregor
      Pages 197-212

    8. Estimating the Global Potential of Forest and Agroforest Management Practices to Sequester Carbon

      • Jack K. Winjum, Robert K. Dixon, Paul E. Schroeder
      Pages 213-227

    9. Forest fertilization: its potential to increase the CO2 storage capacity and to alleviate the decline of the global forests

      • R. F. Huettl, H. W. Zoettl
      Pages 229-249

    10. The Use of Halophytes to Sequester Carbon

      • Edward P. Glenn, Louis F. Pitelka, Mary W. Olsen
      Pages 251-263

    11. Carbon Sinks in Mangroves and Their Implications to Carbon Budget of Tropical Coastal Ecosystems

      • R. R. Twilley, R. H. Chen, T. Hargis
      Pages 265-288

    12. Marine Algae as a CO2 Sink

      • R. L. Ritschard
      Pages 289-303
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Most of the attention with respect to the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations centers around three issues: human-generated sources of carbon, mostly from burning fossil fuels; tropical deforestation, which accelerates the production of atmospheric carbon while causting havoc with biodiversity and the economic development of tropical countries; and the temperature increase that may accompany increased atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
This is the first book to focus extensively on the reverse to emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2), i.e. the sequestering of atmospheric carbon by aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Natural ecosystems are currently sequestering carbon and it is economically feasible to manage existing and additional terrestrial (forest, soil, saline land) and aquatic (coastal, wetland and ocean) ecosystems to substantially increase the level of carbon storage. The prospect of managing natural systems to absorb additional carbon should begin to change the mindset under which scientists, policy makers and society deal with the issue of further greenhouse gas increases.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Wisniewski and Associates, Inc., Falls Church, USA

    Joe Wisniewski

  • U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

    Ariel E. Lugo

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Natural Sinks of CO2

  • Book Subtitle: Palmas Del Mar, Puerto Rico, 24–27 February 1992

  • Editors: Joe Wisniewski, Ariel E. Lugo

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2793-6

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-1805-7Published: 31 May 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5240-5Published: 16 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2793-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 466

  • Topics: Climate Change, Environmental Management, Physical Chemistry

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