Ecosystem Services and Carbon Sequestration in the Biosphere

From the reviews: "This 19-chapter volume ... presents the issues, facts, societal challenges, and potential solutions in stimulating the strengths of carbon sequestration in different ecosystems worldwide. ... Valuable for students, researchers in global change science, policy makers, and carbon management practitioners. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above." (J. Chen, Choice, Vol. 51 (7), March, 2014)

• Foreword.- 1 Societal Dependence on Soil’s Ecosystem Services.- 2 Soils and Ecosystem Services.- 3 Ecosystem Carbon Sequestration.- 4 Food Security Through Better Soil Carbon Management.- 5 Soil Carbon and Water Security.- 6 Forests, Carbon Pool and Timber Production.- 7 Ecosystem Carbon and Soil Biodiversity.- 8 Ecosystem Services and the Global Carbon Cycle.- 9 Losses of Soil Carbon to the Atmosphere via Inland Surface Waters.- 10 Why Pests and Disease Regulation Should Concern Mankind.- 11 Natural Hazards Mitigation Services of Carbon-Rich Ecosystems.- 12 Safeguarding Regulating and Cultural Ecosystem Services: Degradation and Conservation Status.- 13 Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production, Stocks and Flows of Carbon, and Biodiversity.- 14 Soil Carbon and Biofuels.- 15 Land Degradation and Ecosystem Services.- 16 The Human Dimensions of Environmental Degradation and Ecosystem Services: Understanding and Solving the Commons Dilemma.- 17 Soil Organic Carbon, Soil Formation and Soil Fertility.- 18 Managing Soil Organic Carbon for Advancing Food Security and Strengthening Ecosystem Services in China.