Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Contributor
Executive summary
Section I. Agricultural research for a carbon-constrained world
1. Agriculture and climate change: Mitigation opportunities and adaptation imperatives / Mark A. Liebig, Alan J. Franzluebbers, Ron F. Follett
2. GRACEnet: Addressing policy needs through coordinated cross-location research / Charles L. Walthall, Steven R. Shafer, Michael D. Jawson
Section II. Agricultural management and soil carbon dynamics
3. Cropland management in the eastern United States for improved soil organic C sequestration / Curtis J. Dell, Jeffrey M. Novak
4. Soil carbon sequestration in central USA agroecosystems / Cynthia A. Cambardella, Jane M. F. Johnson, Gary E. Varvel
5. Agricultural management and soil carbon dynamics: Western U.S. croplands / Harold P. Collins, Maysoon M. Mikha, Tabitha T. Brown, Jeffrey L. Smith, David Huggins, Upendra M. Sainju
6. Soil carbon dynamics and rangeland management / Justin D. Derner, Virginia L. Jin
7. Soil organic carbon under pasture management / Alan J. Franzluebbers, Lloyd B. Owens, Gilbert C. Sigua, Cynthia A. Cambardella, Richard L. Haney
8. Sustainable bioenergy feedstock production systems: Integrating C dynamics, erosion, water quality and greenhouse gas production / Jane M. F. Johnson, Jeffrey M. Novak
Section III. Agricultural management and greenhouse gas flux
9. Cropland management contributions to GHG flux: Central and eastern U.S. / Michel A. Cavigelli, Timothy B. Parkin
10. Management to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in western U.S. croplands / Ardell D. Halvorson, Kerri L. Steenwerth, Emma C. Suddick, Mark A. Liebig, Jeffery L. Smith, Kevin F. Bronson, Harold P. Collins
11. Greenhouse gas flux from managed grasslands in the U.S. / Mark A. Liebig, Xuejun Dong, Jean E.T. McLain, Curtis J. Dell
12. Mitigation opportunities for life cycle greenhouse gas emissions during feedstock production across heterogeneous landscapes / Paul R. Adler, Stephen J. Del Grosso, Daniel Inman, Robin E. Jenkins, Sabrina Spatari, Yimin Zhang
13. Greenhouse gas fluxes of drained organic and flooded mineral agricultural soils in the United States / Leon Hartwell Allen, Jr.
Section IV. Model simulations for estimating soil carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas flux from agricultural production systems
14. DayCent model simulations for estimating soil carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas fluxes from agricultural production systems / Stephen J. Del Grosso, William J. Parton, Paul R. Adler, Sarah C. Davis, Cindy Keough, Ernest Marx
15. COMET2.0 Decision support system for agricultural greenhouse gas accounting / Keith Paustian, Jill Schuler, Kendrick Killian, Adam Chambers, Steven DelGrosso, Mark Easter, Jorge Alvaro-Fuentes, Ram Gurung, Greg Johnson, Miles Merwin, Stephen Ogle, Carolyn Olson, Amy Swan, Steve Williams, Roel Vining
16. CQESTR simulations of soil organic carbon dynamics / H.T. Gollany, R. F. Follett, Y. Liang
17. Development and application of the EPIC model for carbon cycle, greenhouse-gas mitigation, and biofuel studies / R.C. Izaurralde, W.B. McGill, J.R. Williams
18. The general ensemble biogeochemical modeling system (GEMS) and its applications to agricultural systems in the United States / Shuguang Liu, Zhengxi Tan, Mingshi Chen, Jinxun Liu, Anne Wein, Zhengpeng Li, Shengli Huang, Jennifer Oeding, Claudia Young, Shashi B. Verma, Andrew E. Suyker, Stephen Faulkner, Gregory W. McCarty
Section V. Measurements and monitoring: improving estimates of soil carbon dynamics and greenhouse gas flux
19. Quantifying biases in non-steady state chamber measurements of soil-atmosphere gas exchange / Rodney T. Venterea, Timothy B. Parkin
20. Advances in spectroscopic methods for quantifying soil carbon / James B Reeves, III, Gregory W. McCarty, Francisco Calderon, W. Dean Hively
21. Micrometeorological methods for assessing greenhouse gas flux / R. Howard Skinner, Claudia Wagner-Riddle
22. Remote sensing of soil carbon and greenhouse gas dynamics across agricultural landscapes / C.S.T. Daughtry, E.R. Hunt Jr., P.C. Beeson, S. Milak, M.W. Lang, G. Serbin, J.G. Alfieri, G.W. McCarty, A.M. Sadeghi
Section VI. Economic and policy considerations associated with reducing net greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture
23. Economic outcomes of greenhouse gas mitigation options / David W. Archer, Lyubov A. Kurkalova
24. Agricultural greenhouse gas trading markets in North America / D.C. Reicosky, T. Goddard, D. Enerson, A.S.K. Chan, M.A. Liebig
25. Eligibility criteria affecting landowner participation in greenhouse gas programs / Robert Johansson, Greg Latta, Eric White, Jan Lewandrowski, Ralph Alig
Section VII. Looking ahead: opportunities for future research and collaboration
26. Potential GRACEnet linkages with other greenhouse gas and soil carbon research and monitoring programs / John M. Baker, Ronald F. Follett
27. Elevated CO2 and warming effects on soil carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas exchange in agroecosystems: A review / Feike A. Dijkstra, Jack A. Morgan
28. Mitigation opportunities from land management practices in a warming world: Increasing potential sinks / J.L. Hatfield, T.B. Parkin, T.J. Sauer, J.H. Prueger
29. Beyond mitigation: Adaptation of agricultural strategies to overcome projected climate change / Ronald F. Follett
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