Grassland carbon sequestration
Subtitle: management, policy and economics : proceedings of the Workshop on the Role of Grassland Carbon Sequestration in the Mitigation of Climate Change, Rome, April 2009
By: prepared for the Plant Production and Protection Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) ; edited by Michael Abberton, Richard Conant and Caterina Batello
Contributors: Abberton, M. T. ed; Conant, Richard T. (Richard Theodore), ed; Batello, Caterina, ed; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Plant Production and Protection Division; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Series: Integrated crop management -- vol. 11-2010; Integrated crop management (Rome, Italy) -- v. 11.
Publisher: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Rome
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9789251066959
Subjects: Greenhouse gas mitigation; Climate change mitigation; Grasslands; Congresses; Carbon sequestration
Description: Presents contributions by some of the world's most active scientists on the subject of measuring soil carbon in grassland systems and sustainable grassland management practices.  While many different aspects of carbon sequestration in grasslands are covered, many gaps in knowledge are also revealed.--Publisher's description
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.

Also freely available online.
Table of contents: title: Potential for carbon sequestration in temperate grassland soils  -- Michael B. Jones; title: Carbon status and carbon sequestration potential in the world's grasslands  -- Monica Petri, ... [et al.]; title: Carbon sequestration in Australian grasslands : policy and technical issues  -- Roger M. Gifford; title: Soil carbon sequestration in United States rangelands  -- A.J. Fynn, ... [et al.]; title: Towards a standardized system for the reporting of carbon benefits in sustainable land management projects  -- E. Milne, ... [et al.]; title: Mitigating the greenhouse gas balance of ruminant production systems through carbon sequestration in grasslands  -- J.F. Soussana, T. Tallec and V. Blanfort; title: Carbon sequestration in pasture and silvopastoral systems compared with native forests in ecosystems of tropical America  -- María Cristina Amézquita, ... [et al.]; title: Soil organic carbon in managed pastures of the southeastern United States of America  -- Alan J. Franzluebbers; title: Enhancing the role of legumes : potential and obstacles  -- Michael Abberton; title: Importance of silvopastoral systems for mitigation of climate change and harnessing of environmental benefits  -- Muhammad Ibrahim, ... [et al.]; title: Greenhouse gas mitigation in land use : measuring economic potential  -- Dominic Moran and Kimberly Pratt; title: Carbon finance in extensively managed rangelands : issues in project, programmatic and sectoral approaches  -- Andreas Wilkes and Timm Tennigkeit; title: Managing dryland pastoral systems : implications for mitigation and adaptation to climate change  -- Constance Neely, Sally Bunning and Andreas Wilkes; title: Conclusions -- Rich Conant, Constance Neely and Caterina Batello.