1 Terrestrial Biosphere as a Source and Sink of
Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide ................................... 1
Rattan Lal, K. Lorenz, R.F. Hüttl, B.U. Schneider, and
Joachim von Braun
2 Climate Change Mitigation by Managing the Terrestrial
Biosphere ................................................... 17
Rattan Lai
3 Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene ....... 41
K. Lorenz, R.J. Crutzen, Rattan Lal, and K. Töpfer
4 Historic Changes in Terrestrial Carbon Storage .............. 59
R.A. Houghton
5 Soil Erosion and Soil Organic Carbon Storage on the
Chinese Loess Plateau ....................................... 83
Ch. Dahlke and H.-R. Bork
6 Methane Emissions from China's Natural Wetlands:
Measurements, Temporal Variations and Influencing Factors ... 99
Xiaoke Wang, Fei Lu, and Le Yang
7 Accounting More Precisely for Peat and Other Soil Carbon
Resources .................................................. 127
Hermann F. Jungkunst, Jan Paul Krüger, Felix Heitkamp,
Stefan Erasmi, Stephan Glatzel, Sabine Fiedler, and
Rattan Lal
8 Permafrost - Physical Aspects, Carbon Cycling, Databases
and Uncertainties .......................................... 159
Julia Boike, Moritz Langer, Hugues Lantuit, Sina Muster,
Kurt Roth, Torsten Sachs, Paul Overduin, Sebastian
Westermann, and A. David McGuire
9 Carbon Sequestration in Temperate Forests .................. 187
Rattan Lal and K. Lorenz
10 Decarbonization of the Atmosphere: Role of the Boreal
Forest Under Changing Climate .............................. 203
Jagtar Bhatti, Rachhpal Jassal, and T. Andy Black
11 Recarbonization of the Humid Tropics ....................... 229
Michelle Venter, Oscar Venter, Susan Laurance, and
Michael Bird
12 Carbon Cycling in the Amazon ............................... 253
Carlos Clemente Cerri, Martial Bernoux, Brigitte Josefine
Feigl, and Carlos Eduardo Pellegrino Cerri
13 Grassland Soil Organic Carbon Stocks: Status,
Opportunities, Vulnerability ............................... 275
Richard Theodore Conant
14 Cropland Soil Carbon Dynamics .............................. 303
Klaus Lorenz and Rattan Lal
15 The Carbon Cycle in Drylands ............................... 347
Penélope Serrano-Ortiz, Enrique P. Sánchez-Cañete, and
Cecilio Oyonarte
16 Carbonization of Urban Areas ............................... 369
Galina Churkina
17 Potential Carbon Emission Trajectories of Shanghai, China
from 2007 to 2050 .......................................... 383
Ru Guo, Xiaojing Cao, Jing Zhang, Fengting Li, and
Hongtao Wang
18 Processes of Soil Carbon Dynamics and Ecosystem Carbon
Cycling in a Changing World ................................ 395
Felix Heitkamp, Anna Jacobs, Hermann F. Jungkunst,
Stefanie Heinze, Matthias Wendland, and Yakov Kuzyakov
19 Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Interactions and Biosphere-
Atmosphere Exchange of Nitrous Oxide and Methane ........... 429
Klaus Butterbach-Bahl and Michael Dannenmann
20 Carbon Storage and Sequestration in Subsoil
Horizons: Knowledge, Gaps and Potentials ................... 445
Cornelia Rumpel, Abad Chabbi, and Bernd Marschner
21 Transforming Carbon Dioxide from a Liability into
an Asset ................................................... 465
Carlo Rubbia
22 Bioenergy and Biospheric Carbon ............................ 481
Tim Beringer and Wolfgang Lucht
23 The Economics of Land and Soil Degradation-Toward
an Assessment of the Costs of Inaction ..................... 493
Joachim von Braun and Nicolas Gerber
24 Assessment of Carbon Sequestration Potential in Coastal
Wetlands ................................................... 517
James T. Morris, James Edwards, Stephen Crooks, and
Enrique Reyes
25 Research and Development Priorities Towards
Recarbonization of the Biosphere ........................... 533
Rattan Lal, Klaus Lorenz, Reinhard F. Hüttl, Bernd Uwe
Schneider, and Joachim von Braun
Index ......................................................... 545
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