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Effect of Land Use and Management Practices on Quantifying Changes of Phytolith-Occluded Carbon in Arable Soils

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Sequestration of carbon in the terrestrial ecosystem is one of the strategies to mitigate climate change and global warming. However, the resident time of stored carbon in soil may vary according to its chemical nature and physical protection. There are easily oxidizable and stable C fractions, and their storage and dynamics in terrestrial systems are influenced by land use and management strategies. Therefore, it is inevitable to study the impact of land use and management practices on different carbon fractions to maintain the required balance of these C fractions to enhance C sequestration. In this context, phytolith-occluded carbon (PhytOC) is an important very stable soil organic carbon fraction biomineralized in plant silica. The PhytOC substantially contributes to the terrestrial sequestration of carbon, and it resides in soil for millennial time scale. This chapter mainly focuses on its variation in different plant species and in different land use systems, influence of various management practices on PhytOC and potential measures to enhance PhytOC in terrestrial ecosystems.

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Kundu, S., Rajendiran, S., Vassanda Coumar, M., Ajay (2020). Effect of Land Use and Management Practices on Quantifying Changes of Phytolith-Occluded Carbon in Arable Soils. In: Ghosh, P., Mahanta, S., Mandal, D., Mandal, B., Ramakrishnan, S. (eds) Carbon Management in Tropical and Sub-Tropical Terrestrial Systems. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9628-1_3

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