Geomorphology and the carbon cycle
Bibliographic Information
Geomorphology and the carbon cycle
Martin Evans
（RGS-IBG book series）
Wiley, 2022
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [240]-286) and index
Summary: "As global atmospheric carbon concentrations continue to rise, there has been an increasing focus in the 21st century on understanding terrestrial components of the carbon cycle. This has been a major interdisciplinary research agenda and advances in remote sensing and modelling of vegetation systems have developed increasingly detailed understanding of above ground carbon cycling (Fatichi et al. 2019; Lees et al. 2018). Similarly, the storage of carbon in soils below ground has been the focus of extensive and detailed research (Wiesmeier et al. 2019). However, arguably understanding of soil carbon processes lags behind analysis of above ground systems. For example, it is notable that, in the paper cited at the top of this chapter (Bloom et al. 2016), the terrestrial carbon model that the paper applies includes significant detail around the cycling of carbon through biomass, modelling carbon in leaves, roots and wood separately, whilst soil carbon represents a single store. Where more detailed models
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The first systematic examination of the role of geomorphological processes in the cycling of carbon through the terrestrial system.
Argues that knowledge of geomorphological processes is fundamental to understanding the ways in which carbon is stored and recycled in the terrestrial environment
Integrates classical geomorphological theory with understanding of microbial processes controlling the decomposition of organic matter
Develops an interdisciplinary research agenda for the analysis of the terrestrial carbon cycle
Informed by work in ecology, microbiology and biogeochemistry, in order to analyse spatial and temporal patterns of terrestrial carbon cycling at the landscape scale
Considers the ways in which, as Humanity enters the Anthropocene, the application of this science has the potential to manage the terrestrial carbon cycle to limit increases in atmospheric carbon
Table of Contents
Contents
Series Editors' Preface viii
Acknowledgements ix
Part I The Terrestrial Carbon Cycle and Geomorphological Theory 1
1 Geomorphology and the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle 3
2 Geomorphology and the Fast Carbon Cycle 12
3 Geomorphology and the Geological Carbon Cycle 37
4 Geomorphological Theory and Practice: Material Fluxes in the
Terrestrial Carbon Cycle 53
Part II Geomorphology and Carbon Cycling Across the
Sediment Cascade 77
5 Carbon Cycling in Headwater Catchments 79
6 Hillslope Soil Erosion and Terrestrial Carbon Cycling 110
7 The Role of Floodplains in Terrestrial Carbon Cycling 136
8 Geomorphology and Carbon Cycling in the Coastal Ecotone 167
Part III A Geomorphological Approach to the Carbon Cycle 191
9 Geomorphology and Carbon Cycling in the Anthropocene 193
10 Towards a Geomorphologically Informed Model of Terrestrial
Carbon Cycling 218
References 240
Index 287
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