Soil Responses to Climate Change

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Soils and Global Change — An Overview....Pages 3-11
Relevance of Understanding Landscape Evolution in Relation to Climate-Induced Soil Behaviour....Pages 13-23
Climate Change, Desertification and the Mediterranean Region....Pages 25-38
Climate Change, Soil Salinity and Alkalinity....Pages 39-54
Spatial Modelling Approaches to Evaluate the Effects of Climate Change on Future Crop Potential and Land Management....Pages 55-69
Crop Models: Principles and Adaptations to the Problem of Climate Change....Pages 71-98
The Effects of Climate Change on Irrigated Soils: Water Resources and Solute Leaching....Pages 99-111
Modelling the Effects of Climate Change on the Hydrology and Water Quality of Structured Soils....Pages 113-135
The Potential Impact of Global Environmental Change on Nitrogen Dynamics in Arable Systems....Pages 137-153
Climate Change and Soil Microbial Processes: Secondary Effects are Hypothesised from Better Known Interacting Primary Effects....Pages 155-168
Old Sediment Carbon in Global Budgets....Pages 169-183
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Global Climate Change and the Necessity to ‘Scale-Down’....Pages 187-191
The Agricultural Management Effects on Carbon Sequestration in Eastern Canada....Pages 193-196
Demonstration of the Rothamsted Carbon Model....Pages 197-198
An Expert Evaluation System to Assess Agricultural Soil Erosion Vulnerability....Pages 199-204
Microleis 3.2: A Set of Computer Programs, Statistical Models and Expert Systems for Land Evaluation....Pages 205-209
Modelling Soil Erosion on UK Agricultural Land under a Changed Climate....Pages 211-215
The Development of Pedotransfer Functions for the Hydraulic Properties of Portuguese Soils....Pages 217-219
The Use of EPIC in a Statistical Framework for Regional Analysis of Soil Responses to Climate and Management....Pages 221-222
Effect of Climatic Changes (CO 2 , Temperature) on Grassland Ecosystems: First Five Months’ Experimental Results....Pages 223-228
Front Matter....Pages 185-185
Significance of Two Soil Components of the Pedosphere as Carbon Sinks....Pages 229-230
The Role of Site Characteristics, Species and Soil Horizon on the Evaluation of Carbon Contents of Forest Soils....Pages 231-236
Statistical Study of Soil Respiration: Calculation of Present Day Rates and Anticipation for a Double CO 2 World....Pages 237-241
Demonstration of Sundial: Simulation of Nitrogen Dynamics in Arable Land....Pages 243-244
Seasonal Climatic Variability and Upward Nitrate Movement in Greek Soils....Pages 245-248
Standard Operation Procedures for Sampling and Sample Treatment of Soils for Environmental Specimen Banking....Pages 249-254
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
Soils and Climate Change — Where Next?....Pages 257-266
Back Matter....Pages 267-314