Sentences with phrase «soil carbon storage»

The coalition used to have a policy of soil carbon storage which involved paying farmers to change the way they grew crops so as to increase the amount of carbon stored in the soil.

By boosting plant growth, compost helps to increase soil carbon storage.

To explore what these new findings could mean for soil carbon storage in a warming world, the team compared output from a soil model that includes the effect of temperature on microbial lifespan to models unaffected by temperature change.

As pressure mounts for farmers to grow enough healthy crops to meet a burgeoning population's needs, and for new land management strategies that improve soil carbon storage to reduce atmospheric CO2 and produce healthy soils, the soil microbiome is the subject of more in - depth scientific research than ever before.

This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

Warmer temperatures shorten the lifespan of soil microbes and this may affect soil carbon storage, according to a new NSF - funded study published in Nature Climate Change this week.

«There may be a potential upside to using biochar in the temperate zone, like promoting soil carbon storage to slow climate change,» said Dr. Hungate, «but our analysis, summarizing more than 1,000 observations, shows that the yield benefits just aren't there.

This redistribution of soil carbon storage raises questions of whether the balance provided by larger plants will stand in the long term or whether the more active microbes detected in the deeper soils will eventually offset the increased carbon in those deeper soils.

Another critic argues that the studies fail to consider no - till cultivation of biofuel crops, which actually increase soil carbon storage, and that corn ethanol plants are converting to renewable energy, thus decreasing their emissions - meanwhile they are competing against fossil fuels like oil from tar sands that have an increased carbon footprint even compared to conventional gasoline.

As pressure mounts for farmers to grow enough healthy crops to meet a burgeoning population's needs, and for new land management strategies that improve soil carbon storage to reduce atmospheric CO2 and produce healthy soils, the soil microbiome is the subject of more in - depth scientific research than ever before.

But they're also a key part of the carbon cycle: Although wetlands cover only about 3 percent of Earth's surface, they account for as much as 30 percent of soil carbon storage.

Scott Strough may already have linked this, but for those interested in soil carbon storage, I just stumbled across this article on the Nature Conservancy's blog site while investigating something else: Can Grasslands, The Ecosystem Underdog, Play an Underground Role in Climate Solutions?.

Soil carbon storage is a vital ecosystem service.