Start Date
2023
Description
- Global climate change (GCC) is a well-documented problem, with CO2 as the most influential greenhouse gas (GHG) driving GCC.
- Plants transfer CO2 from the air to soil organic carbon (SOC).
- Soil is the largest terrestrial sink of organic carbon (2344 Gt)1.
- Agricultural tillage has dramatically reduced the amount of SOC in soils through mineralization and erosion.
- Storing C in soil could reduce the atmospheric C stock, serving to mitigate GCC2
Recommended Citation
Millen, Noah; Taylor, Erin; and Dornbos, David, "Carbon Storage Capacity of PCCI Soils" (2023). Summer Research. 34.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/summer_research/2023/Posters/34
Included in
Jan 1st, 12:00 AM
Carbon Storage Capacity of PCCI Soils
- Global climate change (GCC) is a well-documented problem, with CO2 as the most influential greenhouse gas (GHG) driving GCC.
- Plants transfer CO2 from the air to soil organic carbon (SOC).
- Soil is the largest terrestrial sink of organic carbon (2344 Gt)1.
- Agricultural tillage has dramatically reduced the amount of SOC in soils through mineralization and erosion.
- Storing C in soil could reduce the atmospheric C stock, serving to mitigate GCC2