Soils on a Warmer Earth (eBook)

Effects of Expected Climate Change on Soil Processes, with Emphasis on the Tropics and Sub-Tropics

A. Ayoub, H.W. Scharpenseel, M. Schomaker (Herausgeber)

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1990 | 1. Auflage
273 Seiten
Elsevier Science (Verlag)
978-0-08-086988-9 (ISBN)

Infos

The theme of this book is a far reaching one and should attract great interest, both in industrialized as well as in less developed countries. Although the question of climate change and its effects on soil productivity is overshadowed by so many current events, it is almost certain that this subject will remain on the international agenda for the years to come, not only as science and research are concerned but also in relation to development policies, agricultural policies and others, especially since poor, rich, developed and developing countries are equally threatened by these problems.

Inhalt

Front Cover 1
Soils on a Warmer Earth 4
Copyright Page 5
Contents 6
Forewords 10
Preface 14
Conclusions and recommendations 16
Chapter 1. Overview of the greenhouse effect. Global change syndrome, general outlook 24
Chapter 2. Inputs to climatic change by soil and agriculture related activities. Present status and possible future trends 38
Chapter 3. Processes that affect soil morphology 54
Chapter 4. Influence of climatic change on soil moisture regime, texture, structure and erosion 62
Chapter 5. Resilience against climate change? Soil minerals, transformations and surface properties, Eh, Ph 74
Chapter 6. Impact of climatic change on soil attributes. Influence on salinization and alkalinization 84
Chapter 7. Soil organic matter and biology in relation to climate change 94
Chapter 8. Influence of climatic change on development of problem soils, especially in the alluvial domains 112
Addendum: Methane formation in waterlogged paddy soils and its controlling factors 124
Chapter 9. Potential influence of climate change on soil organic matter and tropical agroforestry 132
Chapter 10. The use of models of soil pedogenic processes in understanding changing land use and climatic conditions 144
Addendum: Modeling nitrous oxide production by denitrification 156
Chapter 11. Impacts of anthropogenic atmospheric pollution on soils, with special relevance to tropical and subtropical soils, and possible consequences of the greenhouse effect 160
Chapter 12. Changes in soil resources in response to a gradually rising sea-level 168
Chapter 13. Soils on a warmer earth: tropical and subtropical regions 180
Chapter 14. Soils on a warmer earth: subtropical and Mediterranean regions 198
Chapter 15. Impact of climate warming on arid region soils 200
Chapter 16. Soils of the subboreal region on a warmer earth 208
Chapter 17. Climate induced changes of the boreal and subpolar soils 214
Chapter 18. Approaches to mitigate tropical deforestation by sustainable soil management practices 234
Chapter 19. Managing global change by curtailing emission sources and creating new sinks 244
Chapter 20. Implications of the greenhouse effect for African agriculture 254
Chapter 21. The agricultural environment of Latin America and the Caribbean and the greenhouse effect 272
Chapter 22. The Asian agricultural environment and the greenhouse effect 290

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.1990
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 0-08-086988-2 / 0080869882
• ISBN-13: 978-0-08-086988-9 / 9780080869889