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Impact of Climate Change on Soil Fertility

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The worldwide mean temperature has increased by nearly about 1.1 °C since the preindustrial era and this increase may reach up to 4 °C by the tip of the twenty-first century due to the rising concentration of greenhouse gases. Since soils are related to climate system in a very complex way through nutrient and hydrologic cycles, global climate change is predicted to have a possible impact on soil fertility through the physical, chemical, and biological properties of soil due to rise in temperature, alternation in precipitation pattern, increase in greenhouse gas concentration in the atmosphere, etc. These detrimental effects of global climate change can be minimized by following both adaptation and mitigation measures. This paper reviews the influence of global change in the climate such as rise in temperature, alteration in precipitation pattern, and increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide on soil properties and processes affecting soil fertility.

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Mondal, S. (2021). Impact of Climate Change on Soil Fertility. In: Choudhary, D.K., Mishra, A., Varma, A. (eds) Climate Change and the Microbiome. Soil Biology, vol 63. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76863-8_28

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