Soil Organic Carbon in the Arid Regions
(A Brief Overview of Iran)
Volume 7 - Issue 5
Bijan Azad*
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- Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, University of Tehran, Iran
*Corresponding author:
Bijan Azad, Department of Rehabilitation of Arid and Mountainous Regions, Faculty of Natural Resources,
University of Tehran, Tehran 31587-77871, Iran
Received:October 25, 2019; Published: October 31, 2019
DOI: 10.32474/CIACR.2019.07.000272
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Abstract
Soils are the largest organic carbon pool in terrestrial
ecosystems, the quantity of this pool is twice the amount of organic
carbon in the atmosphere and three times more organic carbon
than the biotic world [1]. Soils store an estimated 1500Pg organic
carbon in the first meter of soil and 2500Pg of organic carbon to
2m; which is more organic carbon than is contained in the biotic
world (500Pg of carbon) and twice as much organic carbon as
the atmosphere (750Pg of carbon)
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