| Session Details | |
| Section | BG - Biogeosciences |
| Session Title | Natural and Human Impacts on Soil Carbon Sequestration in the Asia-Oceania Region During the Past Three Decades |
| Main Convener | Prof. Fanqiao Meng (China Agricultural University, China) |
| Co-convener(s) | Dr. Wenju Zhang (Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Planning, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China) Dr. Sudhir Verma (YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, India) |
| Session Description | The Asia-Oceania countries faced the dilemma of large population with the limited land resources under the changing climate. Soils of farmland, forest, grassland and wetland have undergone more intensive alteration within the past three decades, because of climate change and human activities. These changes would alter biological and biogeochemical processes, with implications for the carbon cycle in the region. As a result, soil carbon, a means of carbon reservoir and one of the most important indicators for soil quality, has also changed, either increased or decreased, more rapidly than before. This session provides a forum for discussions of relevant research outcomes. Topics include, but are not limited to 1) changes in major carbon pools of the biosphere and pedosphere, 2) carbon transportation among various pools, and 3) influential mechanisms of climate change and human activity on the carbon cycling in the Asia-Oceania region. We encourage submission of contributions using observational and modeling approaches. |