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List of Contributors | p. vi |
Preface | p. ix |
Editorial Acknowledgements | p. xi |
Soil carbon relations: an overview | p. 1 |
Field measurements of soil respiration: principles and constraints, potentials and limitations of different methods | p. 16 |
Experimental design: scaling up in time and space, and its statistical considerations | p. 34 |
Determination of soil carbon stocks and changes | p. 49 |
Litter decomposition: concepts, methods and future perspectives | p. 76 |
Characterization of soil organic matter | p. 91 |
Respiration from roots and the mycorrhizosphere | p. 127 |
Separating autotrophic and heterotrophic components of soil respiration: lessons learned from trenching and related root-exclusion experiments | p. 157 |
Measuring soil microbial parameters relevant for soil carbon fluxes | p. 169 |
Trophic interactions and their implications for soil carbon fluxes | p. 187 |
Semi-empirical modelling of the response of soil respiration to environmental factors in laboratory and field conditions | p. 207 |
Modelling soil carbon dynamics | p. 221 |
The role of soils in the Kyoto Protocol | p. 245 |
Synthesis: emerging issues and challenges for an integrated understanding of soil carbon fluxes | p. 257 |
Appendix: Towards a standardized protocol for the measurement of soil CO2 efflux | p. 272 |
Index | p. 281 |
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