Dynamics Soil Carbon in Tropical Forest
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Soil".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 November 2022) | Viewed by 351
Special Issue Editors
Interests: climate change; ecological modeling; soil carbon; atmospheric physics
Interests: carbon cycling; nitrogen cycling; net primary production; tropical forests and savanna
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Dear Colleagues,
Soil represents the largest terrestrial carbon (C) pool on earth, and tropical forests and savanna are globally significant soil C sinks. However, human activities, including those affecting climate change and land use as well as those inducing shifts in fire frequency and intensity and alterations in wetland ecosystem hydrology, have the potential to alter soil C storage. These changes are occurring in tropical ecosystems worldwide, but there is little consensus as to how these changes will alter soil C storage and ecosystem feedbacks to atmospheric C fluxes.
This Special Issue welcomes contributions that address soil C storage and ecosystem–atmospheric C exchanges in tropical forests and savannas across the globe. In particular, we encourage papers that address human impacts on soil C storage and fluxes, investigate new methodologies that show promise for quantifying changes in soil C pools and fluxes, and consider syntheses across a variety of spatial and temporal scales. Papers may involve field, modelling, and remote sensing research at the molecular, field, region, and global scales, and meta-analyses that collate current research into a coherent picture of how human activities alter tropical soil C pools and fluxes will also be considered.
Prof. Dr. Osvaldo Borges Pinto Júnior
Prof. Dr. George L Vourlitis
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- C cycle
- climate change
- land-use/land-cover change
- soil C and organic matter
- soil processes
- tropical forest/savanna
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