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Main Title Agricultural Sources and Sinks of Carbon.
Author Cole, C. V. ; Flach, K. ; Lee, J. ; Sauerbeck, D. ; Stewart, B. ;
CORP Author Corvallis Environmental Research Lab., OR. ;Agricultural Research Service, Bushland, TX.
Publisher c1993
Year Published 1993
Report Number EPA/600/J-93/503;
Stock Number PB94-136165
Additional Subjects Carbon ; Agriculture ; Ecosystems ; Land use ; Losses ; Soils ; Global ; Data base ; Food ; Climatic changes ; Carbon dioxide ; Reprints ; Sinks
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NTIS  PB94-136165 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Most existing agricultural lands have been in production for sufficiently long periods that C inputs and outputs are nearly balanced and they are neither a major source nor sink of atmospheric C. As population increases, food requirements and the need for more crop land increase accordingly. An annual conversion of previously uncultivated lands up to 1.5 x 10 to the 7th power hectares may be expected. It is this new agricultural land which suffers the greatest losses of C during and subsequent to its conversion. The primary focus for analysis of future C fluxes in agroecosystems needs to be on current changes in land use and management as well as on direct effects of CO2 and climate change.