Managing agricultural soils to increase SOC storage is a significant, immediately available, low-cost option for mitigating CO2 emissions, with the technical potential to sequester as much as 800 Tg CO2/yr in the US (~13% of US CO2 emissions) [Lal et al., 2003] and 5000 Tg CO2/yr globally (~17% of global CO2 emissions) [Smith et al., 2007].
Revised: April 19, 2013 |
Published: November 23, 2010
Citation
Brown D.J., E.R. Hunt, R.C. Izaurralde, K.H. Paustian, C.W. Rice, B.L. schumaker, and T.O. West. 2010.Soil Organic Carbon Change Monitored Over Large Areas.Eos 91, no. 47:441–442.PNNL-SA-72237.doi:10.1029/2010EO470001