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23. Farm-Scale Soil Carbon Auditing

Authors : Jaap J. de Gruijter, Alex. B. McBratney, Budiman Minasny, Ichsani Wheeler, Brendan P. Malone, Uta Stockmann

Published in: Pedometrics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The soil system is recognized as a significant terrestrial sink of carbon. Estimates for the top meter of soil in the world range between 1,200 and 2,500 petagrams for organic C (Batjes 1996; Lal 2004). The reliable assessment and monitoring of soil carbon stocks is of key importance for soil conservation and in mitigation strategies for increased atmospheric carbon (Stockmann et al. 2013). Carbon credits are the heart of a cap-and-trade scheme, by offering a way to quantify carbon sequestered from the atmosphere; carbon credits gain a monetary value to offset a given amount of carbon dioxide releases (Paustian et al. 2009). The agricultural industry worldwide has the capacity to capture and store carbon emissions in soil (Paustian et al. 2000). However, there is still a debate on how soil can benefit for the offsets in the carbon economy because there is no good and efficient way of measuring soil carbon storage with appropriate statistical confidence (Post et al. 2001; Smith 2004b). A scheme that can measure and monitor soil carbon storage on a farm, which is crucial to the participation of the agricultural sector in the carbon economy, is essential.

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Title: Farm-Scale Soil Carbon Auditing
Authors: Jaap J. de Gruijter
Alex. B. McBratney
Budiman Minasny
Ichsani Wheeler
Brendan P. Malone
Uta Stockmann
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: Pedometrics
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-63437-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-63439-5

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63439-5_23