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Author : Boehm, M.
Date : 2002.
Title : Pedology and climate change.
Publication : Annual Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union. May 18-21, 2002, Banff, Alberta.
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Abstract
Pedology is inherently integrative, and integrative approaches are required to understand and solve broad environmental problems like climate change. Pedology has likely contributed more to our understanding of how crop production influences and is influenced by climate change than any other agricultural science. It has provided the basis for our understanding of the sources and removals of greenhouse gases (GHG) associated with various crop production systems as well as the development of domestic strategies and policies related to GHG mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Internationally, Canadian soil scientists were leaders in the effort to have agricultural soil sinks included in the Kyoto Protocol, and their success can be largely attributed to the understanding of soil processes and properties on which their arguments were based. This paper will discuss the various ways in which pedology has contributed to our understanding of climate change and agriculture, ranging from carbon and nitrogen cycling processes and the effects of cultural and environmental conditions on soil properties, to methods of scaling-up from the pedon to regional and national scales.
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