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Record Nr.

UNINA9910446337903321

Titolo

Greenhouse gas sinks / / edited by David S. Reay ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, : CABI, c2007

ISBN

1-280-81201-X

9786610812011

1-84593-190-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (306 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ReayDave <1972->

Disciplina

628.532

Soggetti

Greenhouse gas mitigation

Greenhouse gases - Environmental aspects

Plant-atmosphere relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Carbon Dioxide: Importance, Sources and Sinks; 2 Terrestrial Vegetation as a Carbon Dioxide Sink; 3 The Oceanic Sink for Carbon Dioxide; 4 The Soil Carbon Dioxide Sink; 5 Implications for Increasing the Soil Carbon Store: Calculating the Net Greenhouse Gas Balance of No-till Farming; 6 Geological Carbon Sinks; 7 Artificial Carbon Sinks: Utilization of Carbon Dioxide for the Synthesis of Chemicals and Technological Applications; 8 Prospects for Biological Carbon Sinks in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading Systems

9 Methane: Importance, Sources and Sinks10 The Soil Methane Sink; 11 The Atmospheric Methane Sink; 12 Artificial Methane Sinks; 13 Nitrous Oxide: Importance, Sources and Sinks; 14 Stratospheric Sinks of Nitrous Oxide; 15 Sinks for Nitrous Oxide at the Earth's Surface; 16 Cross-cutting Issues and New Directions; 17 Impact of Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition on the Exchange of Carbon Dioxide, Nitrous Oxide and Methane from European Forests; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

The many and varied sinks for greenhouse gases on Earth are nothing less than vital to life as we know it. For millennia they have maintained relatively balanced concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in our atmosphere. Even when humankind drastically



increased greenhouse emissions following the industrial revolution, many of the sinks responded by increasing their uptake rates, and so buffered our headlong drive towards enhanced global warming. Currently, the earth's carbon sinks reabsorb around half of all the extra carbon dioxide human activities add to the atmosphere e